Favoritism and ethics are a big problem - Sales TEGNA Employee Review

1.0
Jan 22, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Many attempts at team building. They try to come across as forward thinking. Sales goals are easily met. The station has a solid reputation with viewers. The sales team receives a lot of leads that make their sales goals easy to meet.

Cons

Inappropriate hires. They hire and promote realatives. Not taking advantage of an employee's skill set. Lack of professional development opportunities. Poor quality of internet products and no maintenance once the sale is achieved. Favoritism. Overstaffed in sales and understaffed in news. No accountability for true sales. They rely too much on advertising agencies for new business, very few local commercials are produced for new business. No leadership, no consistency. They lead in the dark and make it up as they go.

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1.0
Jul 8, 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Flexible work environment - hybrid

Cons

Heavy workload, way below market compensation for the amount of responsibility, very limited advancement opportunities & uneven workload distribution among teams. In my experience, leadership made repeated statements about promotion opportunities in career growth that ultimately did not materialize. I felt that expectations were set that weren’t followed through on, which made it incredibly difficult to trust leadership. Transparency and follow through on career development could be significantly improved.

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