GIADC Digital Department Review Only - Team Lead USA TODAY Co. Employee Review

2.0
Aug 4, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

The developers, designers, and immediate supervisors are excellent workers and are the foundation of the department. The pay is decent if you're straight out of college and it is a great starter job. Benefits are acceptable and HR seems to genuinely care (when they can be found).

Cons

Upper management is the problem. They are uninformed and choose to stay that way which is immeasurably detrimental to the department and its revenue. The leadership staff is continually trapped between ignorant upper management and the very reasonably upset artists. The department is continually making rash moves which tend to go in the following order: 1. Upper Management determines that something needs to be improved and formulates an ill-conceived plan. 2. Some unfortunate member of leadership is dragged into an unexpected meeting and is bullied into promptly executing the ill-conceived plan. (They may try to explain why the idea is terrible but upper management tends not to listen.) 3. Now that leadership has a moment to try and improve on the plan, they do so as much as they can, while under the ridiculous deadline that had been set. 4. Plan is executed. Plan fails. Leadership is blamed by both upper management and the design staff.

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Pros

Career growth through working with a team that is about success - clients and your own!

Cons

No water-cooler chats because of being remote, but this isn't really a con.

5.0
May 18, 2026
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Pros

A company that I believe genuinely cares about its employees as much as their clients. Great work/life balance, decent pay, great culture, welcoming and supportive atmosphere.

Cons

Trying to "fix" too many things at one time can lead to inconsistency and feelings of being overwhelmed at all levels. There is a lot of great intent and plans to continue to grow the company and make things better overall, however, sometimes it felt a lot like "pulling at straws" approach where upper leadership would try something impulsively, and not stick to it long enough to see if it could truly make an impact, and many times certain approaches contradicted a previous one for a different area of opportunity. However, it's important to note, that through many moving parts, there was always support offered, and a "safe space" to provide feedback at even entry level roles.

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