Abandon Ship - Production PBS Employee Review

2.0
Apr 16, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

-The people working there are generally very chill and cool, far better than any corpo-types I've dealt with in my life.

Cons

-Public media has no future. They have no idea how to survive zoomies and alphas transitioning to YouTube for entertainment. -Their budgets are getting obliterated across the board and all of their donors are extremely elderly oligarchs. Most of their regular supporters are over 50 too. -As a consequence, you will NEVER get a raise, you will NEVER get a performance bonus, and you will LIKELY get laid off at some point. I'm hanging out for a few more months until I qualify for a pension and then bailing. It's over.

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5.0
Jun 16, 2026
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Pros

Full of people that love and care about their work

Cons

It is a very dangerous time for public media, so opportunities may be limited

2.0
Jun 24, 2026
Recommend
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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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