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      3.5

      57% would recommend to a friend

      (1,032 total reviews)
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      Jeff Zucker

      30% approve of CEO

      36% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      3.7

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.5

      Compensation and benefits

      3.3

      Culture & values

      3.1

      Work/Life balance

      3.1

      Career opportunities

      2.8

      Senior management

      CNN has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 1,032 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The CNN employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Media & Communication industry (3.9 stars).

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      1K reviews
      4.0
      Oct 3, 2014

      Good start to a career

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      Incredible exposure, amazing people, exciting environment

      Cons

      Low salary for lots of work, employees undervalued, exhausting and highly stressful

      4.0
      Sep 5, 2014

      Great while you are there...and then the axe falls

      Writer/producer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      It's owned by Turner, which has excellent benefits. If you want to learn something, talk to your manager, then sign up for a passport, or just talk to a manager in that department and just do the job for a few days. Lots of great people work in the building, and networking opportunities are immense. It's better to be right than first - most people in the building believe that. And holding a meeting or networking at the Starbucks in the food court is the norm.

      Cons

      Well, take everything I said above with a grain of salt, because that's under the old management. There always were layoffs when I was there, and reorganizations, and one day your best buddy was there and then he was out. When I was let go, and someone in another dept. heard about it they took me to lunch, that's how nice folks are there. But it happens without warning, and to a lot of folks at once, and sometimes it makes no sense. The other drawbacks - its a 24/7 news operation, so who knows when you'll be working. My exec. producer appreciated the home/life balance, but the show comes first.

      4.0
      Jul 31, 2014

      I loved working at CNN.

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      I had excellent managers and worked on several really cool projects. I was able to have a healthy balance of work and a personal life. And the benefits were good.

      Cons

      They didn't do a good job of hiring dead weight. It's such a big company that there are cracks in the system and people who do nothing can just stay in their same position.

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