Has potential to be great, but falls short in many areas. - Anonymous Salem Media Group Employee Review

2.0
Aug 28, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

- Many of the employees are great to work around. - In my department, we are able to set our own hours and the managers are extremely flexible. I know that is not the case in most other areas of the company however. - There are office-wide events to help bring the team together.

Cons

- Pay is not up to par with many other companies/positions in the area. They seem like they will pay you the least amount possible in order to just get what they need done. - Raises are meaningless. When you are started off at such a low pay, getting a 2% raise does not move the needle enough to keep up with the rise of living costs. Yet, there are those in the upper management who get huge raises and bonuses that are merely expanding their already full pockets. - Bonuses are offered, but they are set up in such a way that it is almost impossible to achieve them. I'd much rather just get the higher pay off the bat and then I would have more incentive to do the work. - Management is very poor. If you talked to the head of my dept., I doubt they would even be able to tell you what I am working on or what my position is. - Vacation time is poor compared to other companies, and it takes way too long to accrue the time off. Makes it almost impossible to take a decent vacation - I end up just doing a lot of unpaid days off. - This is a Christian/Conservative company. So, if you are neither of those things, would be best to stay away. I have been able to get use to the stuff that is shoved in my face all the time, but it was rough.

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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!
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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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