Manager - Manager PBS Employee Review

2.0
Nov 16, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Interesting work, Smart and nice people committed to mission of public broadcasting.

Cons

Very little autonomy in most roles due to many decisions filtering through the very limited number of people at the top and this creates bottlenecks and lack of ingenuity and creativity. Long hours for some workers while others coast and make plenty of noise. Managers play favorites and promotions are not based on merit or actual work accomplishment but favoritism. There is a 'cool kids' culture here and if you're not part of it you don't get ahead.

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Cons

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Pros

Job was fairly autonomous and relaxed.

Cons

Complete lack of communication from senior management. Decisions constantly made that affect your work by people who fundamentally don't understand what that work is and will never seek input by those who do. Plans regarding media processes and abilities remain secretive until the last moment from employees, channels and partners. Senior management on the media side of things comes off as delusional towards their knowledge and capabilities of the systems they poorly implemented. Would rather take the advice of vendors trying to sell a product than the staff who knows what needs to be done and how to do it.

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