Stable environment but not open to new ideas - Traffic Manager Salem Media Group Employee Review

3.0
Aug 27, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

It is a friendly, conservative, moral workplace. Co-workers are pleasant and team players. Very little in-office pressure and no micro-managing. Everyone has a great work ethic. Flexibility for time off when issues arise.

Cons

Compensation is low end and unless you are top management you make very little in comparison to other companies. There is some opportunity to advance within your own department but very little chance to be creative and think outside the box. Upper management is very old school in the way they think and approach new ideas. Also the bottom line is always to save money. So often employees are asked to do more and more with no additional compensation. You often get the feeling that the mentality is "you are lucky to have a job. So be thankful"

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Pros

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Cons

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Salem Media Group Response
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Thank you for sharing your experience and kind words about our leadership and mission. We appreciate your honest feedback about staffing and are always working to balance resources to best serve our teams and audiences. Wishing you all the best in your future endeavors!
2.0
May 31, 2026
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Pros

Great supportive local environment, people called to work there to support the mission.

Cons

Corporate digital leadership is disjointed and systems are chaotic. Actual delivered campaigns are inevitably flawed and mis managed. Retaliatory, narcisstic, abusive corporate digital leadership. Constant systems changes and zero assistance in navigating. More and more digital agency and other jobs outsourced to Asia. Salespeople are exhausted and burned out by programs failing. Zero accountability taken by Ad Ops team for mistakes or extrene lag time in responses from internal automated systems. Salary cuts to 'help the company' plays on the mission minded employees, taking advantage of employees good intentions by underpaying them compared to industry. No 401K match.

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