New York Times reviews

3.9

71% would recommend to a friend

(923 total reviews)

Meredith Kopit Levien

75% approve of CEO

78% positive business outlook

New York Times has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 923 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The New York Times 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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923 reviews
2.0
Jun 19, 2013

A Mess

Recommend
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Pros

The Brand. Smart people do actually come to work there to pay their dues and move on. They have the best journalists and written articles without a doubt.

Cons

Whew! Where do I begin.... - Everything is political. It's all about if you are in the "IN" group. - People who failed spectacularly get promoted. It's the one place where you can fail up pretty consistently. - They still run on old dated technologies like SVN , Prototype etc... and do boring things and use boring tech...with the noteable exception of the newsroom who can build code that works for a day and then you have to fix whatever they broke in the process after that day. - They use a ton of good people to build terrible products. - Be careful if you build and design a pay model that is highly successful... The paper pushers in upper management will get nervous about their jobs and pigeon hole you so you can't take their job away from them because they don't actually do anything. - Make sure you aren't too successful. That's grounds for getting fired at NYT or at the very least for a glass ceiling being put over your head. - They have about 25 layers of middle management too many and the CIO and CTO aren't even credible or knowledgeable in the world of tech. - I don't have a positive view of management. - The pay is minuscule compared to what the market is yielding. The NYT calls it "Leveraging the Brand". I call it insulting.

3.0
Aug 8, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Really wonderful colleagues who care about each other and the mission. Lots of knowledge sharing and people are very generous with their time. The recent formation of the tech union is a great signifier of how much employees care for each other, care for the mission of company and want to fix the retention issues that have a big affect on morale and productivity.

Cons

HR and occupational health are borderline antagonistic with employees and fully lacking in knowledge about local sick & safe time policies outside of New York State. When local policies are brought to their attention, they are reluctant and slow to enact policies they’re legally required to follow. For an increasingly remote company, this puts a ton of burden on employees in other states who are navigating health issues. Something as simple as wanting to know how many hours are needed to maintain benefits turns into and endless loop of emails between different departments who are all skirting the question and passing you into someone else for an answer. Upper management feels really out of touch and seems to be more focused on shareholder value than employee satisfaction and retention. Benefits, pay, time off, etc lag behind the rest of the tech industry. It’s really sad to be losing so many talented and experienced employees who believe in the company’s mission but can no longer justify sticking around when other jobs can offer them so much more.

1.0
Oct 28, 2016

Revolving door, bad leadership, lots of diversity exits

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Great products, world in class news, great journalism.

Cons

There's been recent changes in HR leadership who have very little to no respect for tenured current employees. There are changes in Technology leadership where there are mainly white males and no room for women or diverse tech leaders. Mass exits in the recruitment teams and technology teams this year. It used to be a great place to work but leadership is making changes to create what they think is valuable but are focused on short term gains as opposed to looking at long term value and a lot of loyal employees are getting trodden on, in the process. There are better places to work and it seems like a lot of our employees are finding better companies to move to.

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