NBCUniversal Employee Reviews about "long hours"

Pros

The work environment was laid back. I had to be hard working but I was rewarded for it. Working in studio and in the field was very fun.

Cons

I had to arrive very early to work and some days worked long hours.

Advice to Management

Stay in touch with the people that work for you all the way down to the janitors.

Pros

union shop, good salary and benefits

Cons

long hours, lots of overtime

Pros

show recognition, liked coworkers, fun atmosphere

Cons

long hours, low pay, no job security

Pros

A very supportive team of people who have a passion for what they do

Cons

Long hours - over 40 hour weeks

Pros

ny minimum wage as a cashier not challenging whatsoever lots of down time

Cons

lots of people tiring long hours annoying and incompetent management extreme liberal bias very few men on staff

Advice to Management

nobody cares about the Shop

Pros

great people, awesome environment, okay pay

Cons

okay pay, long hours, not great benefits

Pros

Great people, big time projects, exciting work, quality facilities, you’ll learn a lot!

Cons

Very long hours at times. Production works on weekends and holidays. Kiss your social (and at times family) life goodbye

Pros

- Work on cool products (Universal movies in my case) - Sweet peaks (free evenings at the park, sometimes free lunches, free screenings, rarely but can happen meet talents of our movies) - Job is super interesting! - You can go to the park for lunch and go an on a ride! - Very good reference on your resume, after my contract ended I landed very high caliber interviews!

Cons

- AWFUL but really AWFUL salaries for BOTH contractors and full time employees, but I guess it's very common in entertainment - Lack of gender balance, i.e. too many women in the marketing departments which causes a very toxic environment - They don't care about employees being mistreated by their bosses if they're women but became suddenly obsessed when they're men after the recent Hollywood scandals. As a result... many people (read women) get away with it... Talk to HR, they will say they will follow up, will tell your boss and you will end up being put on a performance plan (not my story but saw a few ones having this experience) - No opportunity to grow unless you play the game of your hierarchy - Very old mindset, not international at all whether it is in their recruitment or business vision even if they pretend the contrary - Nepotism: if you don't know anyone and they're not desperate to have someone fill a marketing role, there is little chance you will be able to stay. They love doing favors for friends and high ups colleagues... - Really it always come back to the people: get ready to work long hours but loving what you do and being disgusted by people who will take credit for your work, won't give you opportunities (you will have to show EVERY SINGLE DAY that you deserve to be there and won't get promoted before years without any justification) and might try to ruin your chances to stay in the group. I got lucky I started my contract there with the best boss I have ever had in my career but ended with the worst of all! So like Forrest says : Life is like box of chocolates, you never know what you're going to get!

Advice to Management

I feel it's too late for them, it's a huge company and its culture image only lives on their websites unfortunately. It's an old fashioned studio and things won't change... Let's hope Netflix will give them what they deserve.