Hearst reviews

3.6

64% would recommend to a friend

(1,450 total reviews)

Steven R. Swartz

72% approve of CEO

52% positive business outlook

Hearst has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 1,450 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
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.

5.0
May 2, 2015

Great people. Positive atmosphere.

Recommend
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Pros

Upper management are all very nice people who genuinely seem to want the best for everyone. Many reps have worked there for 10-20 years and roll with the punches.

Cons

The mothership in New York may impose certain changing to procedure or pay plans which may not be bode well for some.

5.0
Apr 24, 2015

Assistant Marketing

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

working environment is really international.

Cons

small department so less opportunity

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