NewsMax Media reviews

High management turnover, went thru 3 bosses in over 2 years. They do not like to keep employees long term, and have a round of layoffs every year. Two already this year ( End of December- beginning of April), one last year (before Christmas), one the year before (before Christmas). The company i feel is having financial issues ( I've seen overdue bills come in from third party companies). Have a doctors appointment? dental appointment?.. must take PTO to cover it. Having maintenance man come to your house and need to work a day from home? Nope....Need to take PTO. They are NOT military or reservist friendly even though they think they are. They break the law in accordance to The Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA). They were going to force me to use my own PTO to take my 2 weeks of required duty which is illegal... they did provide a nice severance package to cover it up though. Crappy pay raises. IF you get one, dont expect more than a cost of living increase. I had raises but i heard in previous years they had NO raise in over 5 years prior! My raises were always afew months after December ( im assuming from the money saved from the last round of layoffs).

The two biggest problems (nightmares?) at Newsmax are vision and culture. This is a strange company with leadership that appears to think only in terms of what was popular 20 years ago. There is a push to grow, but no strategy, no resources, and no support. The “eggs” are in the TV basket, but revenue from other departments cannot sustain the albatross - this is the CEO’s dream, but it is one that can’t and won’t ever be realized. Everyone suffers, as a result. The culture makes this an abysmal workplace. There doesn’t seem to be any sort of ownership of the oppressive issues that plague Newsmax: little to no acknowledgement of personal lives, denied PTO, zero backup and zero support, overwhelmed middle management, shrinking budgets, clear preferential treatment of some employees over others. The vision and the culture are just an endless loop. This is why great people leave, new people are quickly deterred, and we will never be able to regain the stamina that Newsmax almost had at one point. Worse yet, the CEO must approve of EVERYTHING, from small expenditures to rewrites. This is daily. And he frequently travels, so he’s out of reach. No one is empowered to make decisions, not even other, C-level managers. Making a decision without his input could cost you your job. As someone who has worked for decades in the industry, I think that this is absolutely unreal.