Pros
- Coworkers are talented and absolutely wonderful and caring
- Mission of supporting journalism ("Democracy dies in darkness")
- Innovation is allowed and supported
- If you get a good manager, they'll defend you as best as they can and ensure you have a decent work-life balance, considering the on-call rotations (sometimes they're calm; sometimes it's like the world's been set on fire at 1AM)
- Some snacks/fruit (just for tech department), though very limited
- Inclusion network groups hold fun events
- Career growth is supported if you push for it yourself* (see cons for more)
Cons
- Upper management makes poor decisions with no clear direction. It's all politics and poor (or basically no) leadership
- Heavy focus on AI products even though there's been plenty of feedback from users that they DON'T LIKE THEM
- In-office 5 days/wk with little flexibility. They've eased up on the monitoring, but were treating employees like school children with attendance early on.
- Benefits have slowly been getting worse, with premiums going up and the 5 day RTO effectively acting as a pay cut
- CTO is extremely toxic (known for improper, unprofessional behavior)
- Company-wide attempts to "self-correct" have often gone very poorly
- Compensation is kind of low for the DC and NY areas
- *Career growth has changed over the years. Requirements have changed and it's now like a constantly moving goalpost
- Annual appraisals have also gotten a lot stricter, making chances for a decent raise slim