TEGNA reviews

3.0

40% would recommend to a friend

(624 total reviews)
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Mike Steib

25% approve of CEO

31% positive business outlook

TEGNA has an employee rating of 3.0 out of 5 stars, based on 624 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The TEGNA 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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624 reviews
1.0
Nov 17, 2017

The Worst Place I Have Ever Worked

Anonymous employee
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Pros

It's a large company and there are good benefits as a result- like good health insurance, a car wash in the parking garage and bagels on Friday.

Cons

I worked at their WKYC office in Cleveland, Ohio. From the start, it was a very catty place to work with a cutthroat environment in the sales department. If you like to celebrate ignorance and lose IQ points, I would consider a job here. Management is inept and will go behind their employees back to get their (very large) bonuses and take credit for others work constantly. I have worked in this industry for over 10 years and have always felt that I have learned things from jobs and I can honestly say that the only thing I have learned to do while working at WKYC/Tegna is what not to do. The sales team is full of people who are not educated on the products they sell and the management has unrealistic expectations on how accounts will perform because they are too busy going out to get drunk during the day than to educate themselves on the proudcts they sell. Also, time to upgrade the old Dell laptops that weigh 45 pounds...

5.0
Oct 22, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

TEGNA's focus on purpose, great people and forward thinking approach make them a premiere local content company. They are a large company and value promoting from within so growth is tangible. They invest in the development of their people.

Cons

They operate in very lean fashion which results in not always getting what you need to do the job and in some cases reducing the quality and quantity of employee benefits/perks.

1.0
Aug 12, 2015

You need to change more than the name

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Some of the employees, lots of parking, easy commute.

Cons

Where to begin. So much favoritism. Low ratings = low sales eventually it will = layoffs. Management is clueless they get manipulated easily by cute middle level management. Serious changes need to be made, more then cosmetic work to the logos and building. This station is broke from the inside.

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