SiriusXM reviews

Opportunity for growth is severely lacking. Leadership stands on the shoulders of coordinators, and interns (hence the 2015 lawsuit) doing most of the leg work. There is little upward mobility (directors and above are mainly lifers, many came up with Howard Stern) so home grown talent will spin their wheels for years before getting burnt out and leaving. Most programming departments gutted middle management positions - channels usally have a VP, Director, and possibly an intern and/or coordinator, so there’s a big skills gap. The people that do move up often have industry ties, with a lot of instances of nepotism mixed in. Like many entertainment employers, SiriusXM exploits hungry music and tv lovers, willing to do more for less, because if they don’t there’s someone next in line who will. Leadership perpetuates a live to work culture and the always live nature of radio often requires constant monitoring, regardless of work hours. There is little to no coverage structure for employees in programming. Senior staff includes many older, tech illiterate “ideas men/women” who couldn't cover the lower level, “in the weeds” employees if they tried. The pay gap between directors and the intern/coordinator fleet is enormous.

My boss was so rude and tone deaf towards my personal struggles. The worst (and most disappointing) experience I have ever had in media - company and boss wise. I was interviewed for and promised a hybrid role. Only, when I started, I had to fight weekly to receive my promised hybrid days. My boss was the biggest sore when it came to this too. When I told her I was struggling to pay for gas, she compared me to the new guy (and more or less said he was doing better than me). She told me we are all struggling to pay for gas. Except, she had insurance/benefits (when I didn’t) and probably makes more than $18 an hour. Oh yeah, THE PAY IS HORRIBLE. SiriusXM is the lowest paying job and I have ever had. It was so depressing and impossible to pay anything towards bills once taxes are taken. I constantly struggled financially and expressed this to my boss — SHE DIDN’T CARE! It was always, “we are all struggling”. I also constantly was asking to be trained more to learn their extensive programs, and I never was scheduled to be trained (despite weeks of asking). When I finally was at my wits end begging for hybrid days because gas/inflation is so high, I quit but offered to work two more full weeks. My boss, knowing how I am struggling financially, knowing I voiced the same concerns since day one and was met with no solutions, said for me to not bother returning to the station. She wouldn’t even allow me to return to drop off my laptop - fedex was scheduled to pick it up instead. Oh yeah, I also was making graphics that every producer and host loved. Then same boss told me to quit making them because I already had a job at SiriusXM — and it wasn’t in graphics. She muted my eagerness to do more with the company. So unprofessional. So rude. So mean.