Newsweek reviews

1.7

11% would recommend to a friend

(92 total reviews)
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Dev Pragad

12% approve of CEO

7% positive business outlook

Newsweek has an employee rating of 1.7 out of 5 stars, based on 92 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a poor working experience there. The Newsweek employee rating is 54% below average for employers within the Media & Communication industry (3.7 stars).

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92 reviews
1.0
Jul 6, 2020
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Pros

Absolutely no pros related to working for Newsweek

Cons

Newsweek Amplify is in the business of hiring writers and editors from South-East Asian countries and Africa at less than a third of the standard price to publish sponsored articles for their affiliates on the Newsweek platform which is also syndicated to Apple news. It is the most unprofessional setting for a freelance writer looking to work remotely with shady "editors" and "content managers" who refuse to even go by their real names. The entire operation is essentially run from the Philippines by unqualified "managers" with no valid credentials hiring and firing writers at a pace which can leave you dizzy. Every freelance writer enticed by the Newsweek tag should stay away, staggeringly unqualified management combined with "editors" who have no inkling of the writing process awaits them.

1.0
Jun 6, 2020

Run, dont walk (away)

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Pros

the people (not in management) on the magazine side are great.

Cons

Management and leadership are truly terrible.

1.0
Jun 4, 2020

Bankruptcy pending

Anonymous employee
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Pros

The office Location I guess

Cons

I worked here only for a while, but in just a short time, I saw enough. There is no culture. Employees too afraid to talk to higher management. You could literally hear a pin drop in the office! I wasn’t there long enough to really understand why staff were so anxious, but apparently they have gone through a lot of changes in the past years. So much controversy, over-controlling nature of management and many people were made redundant. This company is financially doing VERY VERY bad! And is going to be declared bankrupt soon. They don’t have enough to pay their creditors- and higher managements way of dealing with this is to ignore suppliers emails/ delay it so much that eventually they get too tired and give up. That is how it has been functioning for a while. If it continues, their debt will continue to pile up in millions. Therefore, staff usually aren’t paid on timely manner due to lack of finance, and no procedures from HR team. No one listens to anyone. The higher managements only concern is to play politics and games so that they look good in front of their CEO. The finance and HR team are a big joke, with senior members playing dirty games with one another. Other than that, they belittle their staff, treat them like slaves, have no moral values whatsoever. It’s a ticking bomb machine. So to all members of staff, I would say make an exit now.

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