NBCUniversal Master Control Operator reviews

3.5

82% would recommend to a friend

(9 total reviews)

Mike Cavanagh

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82% positive business outlook

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9 reviews
2.0
May 28, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

-Everyone was really cool and chill. -Cafeteria is in house, it's a little pricey, but if you're ever in a pinch it's there when you need it. -They offer you a relocation package if you need it. -If you're experienced and moving from one company to this one, this is the place for you.

Cons

-You have to pay back the relocation package if you're let go for any reason or quit within the year, or half of it within 2 years. -The location of the building I went to is in South Denver, a very rich area. Rent is sky-high. If you try to live further away for cheap, good luck. South Denver has terrible infrastructure, with only one highway going north and south, and another going east and west. Everything else you see on Google Maps is not a highway, and it's filled with stoplights, it'll take you 25-30 mins to get you anywhere within 10 miles during any time of the day from this part of Denver. -You're given very strict guidelines to keep your job. They advertise to companies about their 99.999% success rate. This means that you have about 5-8 seconds of blackout allotted per month. After that, you get put under review, and trust me, when you got companies spending millions on advertising and your job is to make sure those stay on air, you have to be razor sharp at catching it. Seems easy, right? Well, consider this, you have to manage between 10-21 channels simultaneously. That means you better hope you have reliable training if you're inexperienced, which brings me to the next point below: -Absolutely terrible training. I was told that there would be hands-on training during the interview, which was great because I had zero background in this field and I work best under those conditions, but after spending a couple thousand dollars trying to relocate there, turns out the training was not hands-on and hadn't been since Covid, not cool. The "training" itself consisted of terrible, out of focus smartphone photos, using Windows' photo album feature (where we spent most of the time watching him figure out how to use it) with conflicting information and vague detail, sometimes the trainer would go into a tangent giving too much detail that was unrelated to the position. It was the most convoluted training I've ever received, especially to someone who has zero experience in this position. -The job itself was incredibly daunting. Since I had no idea what I was doing with the inadequate training I was given, I kept screwing up, and I was incredibly stressed, I knew my job security was in jeopardy.

4.0
Mar 28, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Straight 8 workdays, lots of time off (between PTO, personal, sick)

Cons

Work weekends, not normal 9-5 but that’s television

5.0
Nov 15, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good pay for right out of college, (mostly) wonderful coworkers, good benefits, and location I'm working at is growing, so lots of hiring and some opportunity to move up

Cons

As with any place, a few people are less than enjoyable to work with

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