Good place to start a career, difficult and rigid place to move up - SEO Specialist Hearst Employee Review

3.0
Sep 15, 2021
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Pros

great experience to work for large, well-known brand and in proximity to so many big names, great for anyone new to media, solid benefits that come with working for a large corporation

Cons

Competitive, often rigid culture that discouraged upward mobility, bad salary ranges especially for mid-level employees. Bad work/life balance is encouraged - those who work longer hours or suck up to high level employees are very much rewarded. Editorial is driven almost solely by traffic success rather than good reporting.

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5.0
Jun 8, 2026
Anonymous contractor
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Pros

Well-organized and good communication. As a contractor, I found Hearst to be a pleasure to work with.

Cons

I don't have any cons to report other than that the accounts payable is out of North Carolina and can take 60 days to receive payment.

1.0
Jul 16, 2026
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Pros

Sales team is super bonded over terrible senior management.

Cons

Executive leadership team is not equipped to manage high performing sales people. They mange first year sales reps the same as they manage 20+ years of experience sales reps. 5 members of the sales team have voluntarily walked off the team in the last 2 months and no changes have been made to leadership. Leadership said they were changing our comp plan mid year, but wouldn’t telling us what it was changing to (essentially asking us to sell like normal without telling us what we’d be paid).

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