MLive Media Group Reviews

Cons

You need to be open to traveling within Michigan for meetings. Sometimes upper leadership is absent so you need to be able to be self motivated to get work done.

Cons

-100% Upper Management (Director & above) - They haven't left MMG because they would not succeed outside of this cult like organization.
-Work Life Balance ... does not exist. Yes, you may be able to get in a doc appointment here and there but once you establish a few accounts you will work weekends, while on vacation and holidays while managers are completely unresponsive.
-Every person wears 2 or 3 hats. And the jobs are ever changing. Just because you were hired in as a "Account Manager" doesn't not mean in 90 days you'll still be doing what you got hired in for. If you're hired in for something other than an Account Executive come Q3 they'll do a "hub tour" and try and get everyone (even those non client facing) to go out and SELL SELL SELL.
The organization was so lean to try and save money (to spend on upper management bonus's) that account managers have 20+ accounts while telling their customers they had around 10 to not seem like they were spread too thin.
All of the impactful, helpful & knowledgeable employees have since left company. Which means there's a handful of role models left scattered throughout 10 office locations.
Lastly, I laugh at the reviews that mention anything about "remote work" you're only allowed to work remotely after normal business hours and weekends. 8-5 Monday thru Friday, you will be questioned if you're not in the office. Don't let them sell that to you in your interview.
The entire 3 years I was there, everyone had one foot out the door because either they were so terrified of being fired or because of absolute misery.

Cons

Inexperienced management. sales managers with no sales experience.

Cons

Not a clear path for the company

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-Hard to get a raise
-Lots of moving around and restructuring

Cons

Finding the right fit for management positions, lack of proper training for new hires, individuals promoted and employee development, company morale, work/life balance and lost sense of self and values.

Cons

There are a lot of changes, but that is true for for any media company. Upward mobility a bit unknown.

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Low pay, was promised a raise for over a year, two years ago. Still nothing. Poor communication.

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- We need more digital support staff. WE ARE SALESPEOPLE. When you have a car salesman, they sell the car, they take the paperwork and they hand it off to a management staff. When we sell a campaign, we prospected the client, go through the sales process, sell the campaign, and THEN we are responsible for all their creatives, all of their fulfillment on the backend, plus maintain the account, swap creatives, and make the client happy. It's too much for one person but they just keep firing out support staff and giving us more work for no extra pay.

- Restructures the company every single year. In the four years, I have been here the entire company has restructured itself every year. We are a digital company, new products and features are one thing. LAYOFFS AND RESTRUCTURING IS A MANAGEMENT PROBLEM.

- Doesn't invest in their employees. We are the #1 news site in Michigan, and we can tote our 'HALO EFFECT' all day long, but at the end of the day Cumulus, Hearst, Alpha Media and WNEM are sponsoring community events that matter and we aren't. Help us grow as professionals. I recently applied for a very prestigious leadership class in my town and was not given a position because I had to request a scholarship, because MLive refused to pay the tuition for me of only $1100 even though a manage a half a million dollars in revenue every year. I've also only recieved one raise on my salary in four years, I know that people on my team that handle less accounts than me are making more salary because they told me. And I have never been approached about a promotion.

Cons

Workload just keeps piling on a sales as upper management lightens their load and fires people who can help. No time to be a salesperson due to lack of proper help and fulfillment process issues. They keep adding more things that we have to do without help and then call it "freaky fast" but fast for who when it just leads us to more emails and questions from 3-5 different people since there is not 1 person working on it to help.

No opportunity for raises. Lots of turnover and layoffs.

If you feel something isn't right and you try to talk about it they consider it complaining and are not open to it being feedback. So do not have an opinion on anything.