Hearst reviews

3.6

63% would recommend to a friend

(1,451 total reviews)

Steven R. Swartz

72% 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
4.0
May 15, 2013

Great place to start your career

Recommend
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Pros

Great people, good benefits, seem to like to promote within. Super smart editors.

Cons

The editors' minds and desires are in the right places, but there's too much red tape to get anything done. Little resources and lots of scrambling over budgets.

4.0
May 13, 2013

Excellent Company

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The benefits provided by the Hearst Corp. are great. The health care options are good. Vacation, sick days, and personal days are great too.

Cons

Sometimes new employees are not vetted very well, and end up not being as good as thier resume says. This results in the good employees having to pick up the slack.

1.0
May 8, 2013

Not the place to have a career or a job

Anonymous employee
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Pros

- Great office building and facilities - Decent employee benefits

Cons

1- Declining print magazine division 2- Century old school style corporate governance 3- Layers and layers of incompetent management, especially the digital media group 4- Lack of core leadership from top executives to group managers 5- The mobile and digital development team is a total joke 6- No company culture 7- More politics than the U.S. Congress 8- Finger pointing is the solution for managers in order to divert their own failures 9- Working environment feel more like a wall street bank than a media company 10- No career advancement. Promotion to those in an exclusive club (See #7, #8)

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