USA TODAY Co. reviews

3.1

50% would recommend to a friend

(2,572 total reviews)
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Mike Reed

50% approve of CEO

33% positive business outlook

USA TODAY Co. has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 2,572 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The USA TODAY Co. employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Media & Communication industry (3.5 stars).

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2.0
Aug 4, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The developers, designers, and immediate supervisors are excellent workers and are the foundation of the department. The pay is decent if you're straight out of college and it is a great starter job. Benefits are acceptable and HR seems to genuinely care (when they can be found).

Cons

Upper management is the problem. They are uninformed and choose to stay that way which is immeasurably detrimental to the department and its revenue. The leadership staff is continually trapped between ignorant upper management and the very reasonably upset artists. The department is continually making rash moves which tend to go in the following order: 1. Upper Management determines that something needs to be improved and formulates an ill-conceived plan. 2. Some unfortunate member of leadership is dragged into an unexpected meeting and is bullied into promptly executing the ill-conceived plan. (They may try to explain why the idea is terrible but upper management tends not to listen.) 3. Now that leadership has a moment to try and improve on the plan, they do so as much as they can, while under the ridiculous deadline that had been set. 4. Plan is executed. Plan fails. Leadership is blamed by both upper management and the design staff.

1.0
May 25, 2015

news producer slave

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

None that I can think of.

Cons

I swear this is true: Was paid $20,000 a year to produce one of their shows...scored among the highest ratings in station history, but when I asked for a $1 an hour raise I was basically shown the door. Later learned producers doing half the work I was doing was making over twice as much. Darkest period in my professional career.

1.0
May 1, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Flexible schedule. Other than that? None. Nothing. Nada. Zip. Zilch. Zero. Nunca. Nein. Is that 20 words yet? Because there aren't enough pros to make this 20 words.

Cons

The harder you work, the less you make! No raises, not even when someone quits and you absorb their job on top of yours. You think you'd be offered SOMETHING in return, right? Think again. The execs line their fat greedy pockets while the rest of us scrape by on lower-than-industry-standard pay that never ever increases. I'm doing the work of three people due to coworkers finding greener pastures, but no additional compensation has been provided, even after asking many times for a raise. This company is the WORST. I only gave it one star because I couldn't give it ZERO stars.

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