Hearst reviews

3.6

65% would recommend to a friend

(1,451 total reviews)

Steven R. Swartz

76% approve of CEO

50% positive business outlook

Hearst has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 1,451 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Hearst employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Audiovisual y medios de comunicación industry (3.7 stars).

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1K reviews
1.0
Mar 29, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Peers are very kind, beautiful office with view, salary on par with industry averages, perhaps more.

Cons

Managers and executives have personal issues that bubble to surface. One direct manager was dating and sleeping with other coworkers, which led to disruption of operations while other employees were left confused. Former president of Hearst Newspapers until about 2017 (now EVP and COO of Hearst Corporate as of 2019), had petuitary adenoma (as a former med school student, I spotted this instantly), and would often feel slighted and personally offended if low-level employees left for other companies, and would announce public black lists of those employees. He drove the division revenue down and still was promoted to corporate level. He also grabbed some employees by the arm while walking past them, often citing he forgot to ask them for status updates, and justified grabbing at them. He also has hair plugs. Divisional expansion was often predicated on emotions of executives and not actual empirical data to justify risks, based on potential reward. Heavy nepotism: new round of vice presidential hires are literally brothers or sons-in-law of SVPs and presidents. The same former president of the newspaper division openly discouraged internal transfers, both within the division and other divisions, hence only recourse is to leave company. He also did not permit substantial raises or promotions to entry, associate, or mid-level employees. It is these cons that leave little to the imagination as to why newspapers and digital newspapers are going extinct. It is because of these old, stogy dinosaurs who desperately need the metaphorical meteorite to slam them in their faces and vaporize them.

4.0
May 6, 2015

All

Recommend
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Pros

Great brands, people and work environment. Digital team has come a long way. Now everyone from a sales, marketing and post sales account mgmt actually has a digital back ground. As opposed to two years ago when it was a few print people trying to sell as manage digital campaigns.

Cons

Horrific maternity leave. Only pay 6 weeks. Force employee to use one week of their annual vacation. Employee then has the option to use the rest of their annual vacation toward their maternity leave - but then has no more vacation for the rest of the year. The rest of the 3-month maternity leave (which the employee only gets bc of the FMLA, which essentially treats maternity leave like a medical leave) is unpaid. This from a company whose brands portray the image of building women up. And a huge % of the company is women. It's shameful.

2.0
Oct 30, 2014

God, I Hate Uncle Hearst

Recommend
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Pros

Everyone else is just as miserable as you Free cupcakes Decent benefits Fun to people watch in the elevators I love the gym

Cons

Low pay Ridiculous hours Overlooks talent Nepotistic Talks the talk, but doesn't walk the walk when it comes to female empowerment

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