Hearst reviews

3.6

64% would recommend to a friend

(1,452 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 1,452 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 Media & Communication industry (3.7 stars).

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1K reviews
4.0
Apr 14, 2016

Intern

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Everyone in the company is very nice and willing to help. Lots of things to learn, in my department account executives took me to different sales meetings. Hearst itself has lots of resources to offer.

Cons

Since lots of work are performance-based, many people work very hard under great stress. The environment sometimes can be intense. All interns are unpaid... which kinda suck.

2.0
Apr 11, 2016

Director

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Company has many exciting ideas

Cons

Execution from upper management is weak, big disconnect to those making it happen. We do not get paid market value and have recently LOST compensation. Many good people leaving due to the JV with Conde Nast and many others looking for new jobs, this will be Hearsts biggest failure if they don't find a way to properly compensate the staff leading the project.

5.0
Apr 10, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great company to work for in every aspect and always evolving. Recognizes excellence in their sales teams and individuals. Offers challenging sales competitions and great incentives. Fast paced multi -ask happy work environments. Treat their customers with utmost loyalty and awesome entertaining incentives.

Cons

90% of Management is excellent and highly professional and an honor to work with. 10% needs major improvement over hall to certain few unprofessional managers holding the company back undetected. For their own personal purposes or unethical preferences. Reporting this unfortunate and unexpected unprofessional or offensive behavior to HR - you get labeled rather then confidential and treated worse. Needs major management inventory audit to prevent ultimately losing revenue in this manner. Any loss is bad for this industry, especially when coming from within. Loss of Customers /advertising media buys - will go elsewhere -if they lose their sales confidant representative with out notice or suspect unfair treatment. The customer is ultimately effected. Grey area. Thus causing unnecessary confusion, mistakes, reprints, make goods, chaos and growing escalation departments. Risking millions and costing company more to compensate for escalate. Possibly create a position on the inside to monitor over authoritarian management 95%abuse- on the DL incognito. A win win for company, representative and most importantly your loyal customers.

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