NPR reviews

3.9

69% would recommend to a friend

(284 total reviews)

Katherine Maher

Not enough data to show CEO approval

53% positive business outlook

NPR has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 284 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The NPR 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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284 reviews
3.0
Mar 14, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- For the most part, it's easy to become like family with your coworkers. People are very close. - Lots of great new projects coming out of some of the divisions - Some managers are very supportive of employees pursuing new experiences - Great vacation packages with benefits - Really nice new building with awesome amenities - Pay is pretty decent for a non-profit

Cons

- Much of middle management are just there because they've needed to be promoted up and the next step is to supervise people...but they are HORRIBLE supervisors. Just because you're older and experienced in your industry DOES NOT mean you should be supervising people. - When people leave, works just gets absorbed and people get over-worked like crazy. - While I've seen some lateral movement, opportunities for growth are enormously limited unless you stay there forever - As for the people that DO stay there forever...they get stuck in old behaviors and with old processes and as a result are incredibly closed-minded about change - Over-priced cafe and limited food options in the area, especially compared to the old Chinatown neighborhood - Gym isn't free (but that's because it's staffed with somebody who teaches classes)

2.0
Jan 20, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Inspiring mission, smart people who care about what they're doing, fast paced environment, one of the leaders on the digital media front.

Cons

Massively stressful. The executives are cloistered and tthrive on sending e-mails way outside of normal work hours on a regular basis making a work-life balance non-existent. Questionable expenditures for a company operating in the red. The place has lost (and is losing) a lot of great talent. Things feel reckless.

1.0
Jun 18, 2014

Upper management is a complete joke

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The cafe is nice. And they have a beehive on the rooftop.

Cons

This is an organization on its way out. Upper management is so bereft of talent or competence it's hard to imagine NPR, in its current form, lasting more than a few years. The bizarre cult of personality around one of the executives, the yes men mentality and the constant fear of losing one's job is too much to handle on a daily basis.

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