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The Washington Post reviews

3.0

34% would recommend to a friend

(643 total reviews)
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Jeff D’Onofrio

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10% positive business outlook

The Washington Post has an employee rating of 3.0 out of 5 stars, based on 643 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The The Washington Post employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Media & Communication industry (3.4 stars).

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643 reviews
2.0
May 26, 2019

it's complicated

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

well lit, comfortable office cool products socially relevant and valuable customer (the newsroom)

Cons

complex and disorganized management structure so many managers superhero culture top down power structure with strong features of micromanagement, and paranoid, rigid control chaos creates burnout and random constant direction changes at every level

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The Washington Post Response
7y
We’re disappointed to hear your feedback about working at The Washington Post. We take it seriously as we strive to be a great place to work for everyone. In terms of management, we’ve invested in growing a strong management and leadership team. Several years ago, we launched The Leadership Project to train, coach, and come alongside managers so they can build strong teams. Your feedback suggests otherwise and we’d like to hear more so that we can better understand what support we can provide. Feel free to confidentially email us with more specific details so we can address it: life@washpost.com. Thanks in advance.
5.0
May 10, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

A lot of important and exciting work happens here, and management is successfully navigating a business environment that is difficult to say the least.

Cons

Income inequality and basic fairness. In the most recent round of union negotiations the company cut company-wide, union pay raises almost to nothing. That means that unless you get a merit raise you will effectively make less money every year due to inflation.

1.0
Apr 3, 2019

Not for PoC or Women

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Looks good on your resume

Cons

This place has an issue retaining people of color and women that they acknowledge but don’t do anything about. Specifically in engineering the senior management and C Suite have created an environment where if you vocalize issues with process (there are tons) you are outcast and pushed out of the company. It is very much an old boys club and unless you’re a white man there is no chance of you rising to any management or upper management position. Of all the teams there, there are maybe 3 good teams with good managers. The rest have terrible managers, there’s no sense of community, leadership or mentorship. There’s no good system to move teams because your ability to move teams is based on your managers review, and if your manager is not good then your chances of going to an internal team are low. This also limits your chance for the very frugal annual raise as well. HR doesn’t properly handle these situations, they have aided in managing out of several PoC and women employees. Since management opportunities only exist for a select few there is a very competitive toxic work environment. Don’t reccomend for anyone jr - mid level. I think this place is only barely doable if you’re super senior and can handle the terrible work environment and have the know how to untangle the mess that is the majority of the code bases. The only culture here is “if you’re silent about your pain they will kill you and say you enjoyed it”.

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The Washington Post Response
7y
Thanks for sharing your experience working at The Washington Post. We take feedback seriously as we work toward being a great place to work for all. We need people from all backgrounds to join The Washington Post to innovate media and technology. We will look into your feedback and would appreciate any additional information you can provide. Feel free to confidentially e-mail us at life@washpost.com.
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