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The Washington Post

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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
3.0
Jul 27, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

The Washington Post is committed to sharing important, even critical journalism to audiences. Its content is timely and accurate and its mission, especially of late, has been necessary. The Post is actively trying to engage and adapt to new readers and digital landscapes, as well as actively engaging demographics that may not typically be heard from or published as often. I greatly appreciate the work they are doing to become more engaged with their diverse audience. I personally never felt lacking on any resources; whatever software, hardware or subscriptions I need to do my job effectively, I am provided. The benefits are very good as well.

Cons

Jobs seem to immediately dead-end into a role. This was corroborated by a few of my coworkers, once there was an established role for you, it seemed very unlikely to advance. There is almost no pay transparency whatsoever, and people with less experience have been hired at starting salaries much higher than mine. When I asked about how to advance and grow my career at the Post, I got vague answers that did not give me direction to try to learn or skills to improve on.

1.0
Oct 26, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Lots of paid off-time: three weeks of vacation, three weeks of sick leave, one week of personal day + holiday.

Cons

The company has a multi-layer corporate America structure: from team lead to mangers to directors to VPs to CEO. Lots of internal politics, everyone just watch their own back to keep the job. The role itself is really a QA engineer, not ML engineer. For 85% of the time, you work on infrastructure migration, pipeline maintenance, and code improvement. You are constantly being hassled to meet the deadlines. For the 15% of ML, you are told what model to use, what code to write. Very boring!

4.0
Sep 11, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Great and helpful teammates. Good system architecture. Good work life balance most of the time. Decent pay. Good development tools.

Cons

No fulltime WFH once pandemic is over. Pay could be better especially for the DC area. Java EE can sometimes be a pain to work with.

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