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3.1

36% would recommend to a friend

(461 total reviews)
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Mary E. Junck

67% approve of CEO

20% positive business outlook

Lee Enterprises has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 461 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Lee Enterprises employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Media & Communication industry (3.7 stars).

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461 reviews
5.0
Dec 30, 2013

Excellent place to work!

Recommend
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Pros

Great pay, excellent benefits and top notch leadership. They have created a wonderful environment for success.

Cons

Lee properties tend to be in small market areas.

2.0
Nov 6, 2013

Leelocal

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great team to work with

Cons

No raises or incentives for production, only sales. More worried about quantity than quality

2.0
Oct 18, 2013

Mixed bag

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Got to work with some really great people that challenged me and helped me grow, before I was promotoed - Had a lot of freedom to find the best solution to problems, before I was promoted - Managers were generally very open to ideas and encouraging - Over all, really great people

Cons

- Salary, very difficult to maintain a lifestyle on what they paid. Infrequent raises and usually just "cost of living" raises. - Received a promotion and when asked for a salary requirement, was told it couldn't be above {X}, stupid me took the job anyway and was laid off about a year later - Creativity was stifled by the corporate office, very very difficult to do anything that wasn't exactly like all 51 other papers - Frequent lay-offs and furloughs, which for salaried employees meant a pay cut to our already difficult to manage salaries - Cost saving "periods" where local depts weren't allowed to buy anything, but bathrooms were remodeled and a large newspaper was purchased - No confidence in the corporate leadership to make decisions that would actually help or benefit the company, evident by how the organization was staffed.

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