Sinclair Broadcast Group Reviews

Pros

Plenty of opportunities to get your foot in the door. Freedom to express your talents and abilities on interesting and important stories. There are lots of talented and good people working hard alongside you. The boots on the ground truly care about the stories they labor to tell. It’s certainly exciting at times and I truly learned something new every day on the job.

Cons

-Little room for job advancement. -Low starting wages. -Less than significant yearly raises. I present to you the 3 L’s of today’s local news business model. If you enter a job here, be prepared to find that the only promotion to a better job will be found at the next shop. Don’t expect to be thanks or applauded for coming through under duress. There’s not much reward or recognition for individual or team efforts. I’ve watched the most talented people I’ve ever worked with be denied promotions/raises/bonuses, year after year. All of this will probably sound like sour grapes, but I’m genuinely saddened to see what I respected as a worthy and noble profession be wrung out for every last drop by greed. It’s an industry-wide issue and that’s why only those who can wholeheartedly dedicate their entire selves to their work can stay in it for the long haul anymore.

Pros

Elite media sales team that accomplishes the seemingly impossible, tons of support, the best advertising products in the market, being with the best stations in the market (News 4, Fox 29 and CW35) will get you instant respect with the community and local businesses, pay is incredible if you let your leadership guide you.

Cons

Big pay comes with big responsibility - and accountability. Employees must keep their promises to their clients and their leadership, employees must work smart because the job is very demanding and could take more than 8 hours a day if you aren't efficient with your valuable time, must create your own work/life balance to give yourself a time to "recharge."

Pros

Pay was enough to keep me this long (I tried many times to leave, but many companies just flat out suck at the competitive pay game or they are willing to take the next chump off the street who will accept their low low pay). I refuse to lower my standards when the high end tech companies are almost twice what Sinclair even offers. Sinclair is only slightly higher than companies like Nordstrom. You could do worse. Very stable work, but prepare to be bored with the products they are making. Most of the people that I worked with used to be cool, now I have no idea who these people are.

Cons

Shifting to hiring lots of international workers (timezone hell). Wishy washy about return to office plan (post-covid) despite hiring all over the place. Extremely difficult to get raises and promotions (slow like molasses). Red tape and not a lot of creative freedom (top-down decisions). Backend system design is purely a joke held together by duct-tape and huge egos of past and present loud mouth bullies with fancy titles and large paychecks (so called "architects"). Lately, good people seem to be leaving on a weekly basis (sad). Very bored in my position, no room for growth. Only 6-8 paid holidays per year (aging news business). Before COVID, they almost never allowed remote work. Most people probably dislike their political bias (includes myself in that group). Ashamed to say I work for them at parties (favors "large news company" to save face).

Pros

Smart people, work life agility,

Cons

Not a strong portfolio management of work at the epic and above level.