American Media Reviews

2.2

16% would recommend to a friend

(141 total reviews)

David J. Pecker

14% approve of CEO

6% positive business outlook

American Media has an employee rating of 2.2 out of 5 stars, based on 141 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The American Media employee rating is 41% below average for employers within the Media and communication industry (3.7 stars).

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141 reviews
2.0
28 Mar 2016

Dead but it doesn't know it yet

Anonymous employee
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Pros

The vending machines usually worked OK.

Cons

There were a lot of nice people working there, but CEO David Pecker is a world-class narcissist, a probable sociopath and arrogant dim-bulb who often insisted on dictating the contents of certain tabloid covers despite the fact that those particular issues had a consistent history of not selling well. For further proof of his imbecilic nature, look no further than his pathetic, years-long insistence on publishing butt-lickingly sycophantic articles about Donald Trump, whom I'd call his soul mate if either gentleman could be said to possess a soul. Raises have been nonexistent at AMI for virtually decades, and for many years, with nothing for employees to look forward to but near-annual layoffs and the expectation that they would consequently be obliged to take on more and more responsibility and a larger workload without so much as a thank you from management, the work environment could best be described as a suffocating morass of resentment, fear and negativity. Kind of like The Walking Dead, but with flesh-eating kept to a minimum. The business as a whole is a zombie-like entity, for that matter. As tabloid sales steadily decline, year after year, it can only continue to lurch and stumble forward for a very limited time longer.

1.0
22 Mar 2017

Evil Company

Recommend
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Pros

I honestly can't think of any

Cons

The people who run this company are some of the least scrupulous, most compromised individuals I have ever encountered. Completely obsessed with appearances only, and they give special treatment to their friends and associates while overworking and under-compensating their employees. They only care about making money, not about the quality of the content in their magazines.

1.0
5 Jan 2015

Beware of this company

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

None that I could tell about.

Cons

Below is my warning of this company.

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