iHeartMedia reviews

- Awful awful awful management. "Quarterly" goals change weekly. Little to no transparency in decision making. Engineers are rarely consulted on matters and when they are its usually overridden by "higher ups." Constantly had one-on-ones and other important career development meetings rescheduled with zero notice whereas if I worked from home without 48 hours notice I'd be chastised. HUGE gulf between management and regular employees - management pretty much does what it wants and regular staffers just suffer. Management is incredibly entitled and although they preach of wanting feedback any input is summarily ignored. - The tech is extremely sub par. LOTS of debt. Engineers often just do what they need to do to get their tasks marked 'Done' in JIRA with little regard to security or stability. - The technical acumen of most of the employees is awful and most people just jump on trendy stacks to seem like they are actually skilled but what's left are just burnt out husks of poorly planned infrastructure. - Pay is underwhelming with lots of vague promises of 'bonuses' that never happen - Lots of pointless meetings - EXTREMELY loud office. Top 40 radio constantly blaring. People would have casual conversations right behind me for minutes at a time. Managers would yell for your attention instead of just messaging you. Even wearing noise-cancelling headphones would rarely work because every fifteen minutes you would get a shoulder tap. - No real path or structure to career development - Half-baked tech initiatives that go no where and just waste everyones time

Strung me along for years trying to get a raise. Made us all take 2 weeks unpaid vacation in 2020 due to covid-related revenue issues, told it was specifically to avoid layoffs, then in March 2021 they laid off a whole lot of people. They only care about the stock price, which only executives get, not employees. They subscribe to the "do more with less" mentality which means they'll underpay one person to do the job of 2 or 3 people. Opened new office in Nashville, and laid off lots of NY people, all the while telling NY "we love you guys". Much of the web properties are just click-bait to get ad revenue. No career path