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Ziff Media Group

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A great place to propel your career if you're a top performer capable of thriving in an ambiguous environment - Anonymous employee Ziff Media Group Employee Review

4.0
14 Oct 2022
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- Excellent benefits (unlimited PTO, decent enough health insurance, lengthy parental leave). - You'll meet some amazingly talented and smart people working here. - Great place to learn for those with the willingness to self-teach and tolerance to endure an instance of existential dread here and there. - Top-tier work-life-balance if you've put in the work to learn you job and can function at a high-level

Cons

- Employee growth isn't emphasized; it's easier to hire than to promote from within - Revolving door at the senior management level means there's frequent influx of clueless new bosses trying to "prove themselves" or out for personal glory - Overlapping incentives between team can lead to strife - Unclear expectations and lack of process or documentation means you'll like be creating the process

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5.0
31 Oct 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Good benefits and teamwork. No micromanagement.

Cons

The teams are typically so spread out that there is no way to form any bonds with anybody.

2.0
29 July 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Salary is decent, most of the company keeps regular hours except for once or twice per quarter. As long as you're not Senior Management and up, you're not constantly overworked.

Cons

Poor communication of ongoing business goals or temperature check on how certain areas of the business contribute. Rounds of layoffs that happen through the years don't seem to be aligned with what they communicate as priorities. Revolving door of executive leadership for years. Poorly defined vision, highly reactive management culture. The kind of job where most people you talk to is having "one of those weeks" nearly every week, even during the "it's better than it used to be" seasons. Many department managers are indifferent or unable to create better working conditions for their teams. It may have been the roles I occupied, but several times in my tenure, months of cross-functional work was thrown out due to indecision and egos. There are politics and frustrating project outcomes at every organization, but the ineffectiveness of leadership here was some of the worst I have seen in my career.

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