Bad upper management - Account Executive iHeartMedia Employee Review

3.0
Oct 13, 2009
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Pros

-Radio is a "fun" business with lots of perks -Lots of resources and tools to sell that competitors do not have -Media sales can be very lucrative -Locally, the management team I worked with was wonderful, but obviously this would vary across markets.

Cons

-There is hardly any training for new sales people; just a horrible computer tutorial they make you sit through. You hit the phones and you sink or swim. -I was there during two major rounds of layoffs in 2009 and I was horrified at how upper management handled them. The aftermath was also awful. -The current owners of Clear Channel are not radio people, they are business people. Because of this the product (radio) has deteriorated and it is harder to sell against other companies. -If you are in sales, be prepared to work with some shady clients! You're in charge of all collections for the advertising they can't actually afford to pay for.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
May 16, 2026
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Pros

The company had really good happy hours and events to attend. Food almost everyday.

Cons

Awful management team. Everyone will plot against you if they see potential. Very political culture and one boss there is a weak male figure in the office. If he doesn’t like you all the other managers follow suit. Mind you he has no power at all yet managers at his same level report to him. Must be experienced to work there really come in with a book of business with accounts that have lots of money because that’s all they care about. They will use and abuse you then cast you to the side make sure you have a second job to lean on. Frequent layoffs no managers of color either. Lots of red flags in the begging do not ignore them.

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