A Company in Need of Direction - Anonymous employee Salem Media Group Employee Review

3.0
Aug 28, 2014
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The company has a staff dedicated to sharing the gospel in a number of mediums. This is a company that understands the audience and how

Cons

There's almost no focus on developing employees and helping them to grow. If you want mentorship and guidance on advancing, you'll have to do so on your own time and at your own expense. Far too many talented employees leave because this is missing. Really, this all points back to a lack of clear vision. The company floats from one good idea to the next, snatching up properties that seem like a good idea at the time and going after whatever market seems like it will grow. All the while, there's no real direction as to who we are or what we stand for. This means that projects rise quickly and die just as quickly because there's no long-term planning. You can expect to jump on whatever idea management likes at this moment at the expense of projects that take time to grow. This means missing the best opportunities to run after ones that may or may not be so good. In the long run, this type of management style will cause a slow loss of traffic and trust among the Christian audience.

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Cons

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Salem Media Group Response
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Thank you for sharing your experience and kind words about our leadership and mission. We appreciate your honest feedback about staffing and are always working to balance resources to best serve our teams and audiences. Wishing you all the best in your future endeavors!
2.0
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Pros

Great supportive local environment, people called to work there to support the mission.

Cons

Corporate digital leadership is disjointed and systems are chaotic. Actual delivered campaigns are inevitably flawed and mis managed. Retaliatory, narcisstic, abusive corporate digital leadership. Constant systems changes and zero assistance in navigating. More and more digital agency and other jobs outsourced to Asia. Salespeople are exhausted and burned out by programs failing. Zero accountability taken by Ad Ops team for mistakes or extrene lag time in responses from internal automated systems. Salary cuts to 'help the company' plays on the mission minded employees, taking advantage of employees good intentions by underpaying them compared to industry. No 401K match.

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