An awful place to work. - Anonymous employee NewsMax Media Employee Review

1.0
Jul 20, 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Decent health insurance, free snacks in the lunch room.

Cons

Most problems with the company can be attributed to an egomaniac CEO who micromanages every aspect of the operation, whether he has any experience with it or not. Loves to hear himself talk and lecture everyone on how their job should be done. Most people don't last more than a year or two, while those that do learned to keep their head down and just say yes to whatever they are asked to do, even if it's detrimental to the business. There is no creativity, innovation, or progress, as management is more concerned about staff being there every second of the working day than the actual work they do. Late to work one day? Must call COO to let him know. Need to leave an hour early for a doctor's appointment? Must get COO's permission first and use PTO. They don't even trust the managers to keep track of their own teams without executives being involved. Everyone is in constant fear of being laid off. Company cycle goes like this - hire people, spend credit on nonsense initiatives that lose money, cut budgets to things that actually make money because they can't pay the bills, layoffs. 6 months later rinse and repeat. Company is in a financial hole, they are dumping loads of money into the TV division that is operating at a huge loss. Listen to the reviews, don't come to work here. This place will suck any motivation and ambition out of you.

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I wouldn’t know, I was led on for months by the hiring team through a connection I had to only be completely ghosted because my ask was out of their price range. They never told me that though, I found out that they were just not even going to counter my price through my connection to the job. Completely insulting and a waste of two days I had to take off of work for two in person interviews. Speaking of let’s talk about that interview. In general I wouldn’t raise an alarm, but in this situation they entertained my price range every step of the way. A fast process turned out to be 6 months of inconsistent communication. It was the only job interview I’ve ever been a part of or heard of where I was genuinely not asked a single question. I would avoid at all cost it seems they have no idea what they are doing and based on their lack of transparency for pay, they will lowball you, they wont negotiate, and it’s clear if you ever were given a job and worked out of that range you’d be the first to get cut. Save this terrible company that seems to have no direction for the kid looking to make 50k out of college and let them get what they should for the range of pay they expect. I mean seriously anything less than 75k for an in office 5 day a week job in NYC? I’d make more as a bartender. They’ve priced themselves out of every candidate in their own market with that salary.

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