1 Aug 2021
Fodors Reviews
3.3
100% would recommend to a friend
David Naggar
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4.0
4 Apr 2015
Recommend
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Pros
The people at Fodor's are truly the best reason to work there. For the most part, everyone is warm, supportive, friendly, and tries to work in harmony. There are also great benefits from the parent company Penguin/Random House: generous vacation time, 401K matching, etc. And of course, some opportunity to travel, although this will add to your workload. But the fact that people are comfortable and generally content here means staff can stay there for years and years, which is a good thing!
Cons
The way the departments are arranged, there's little room to move up the ladder. You have to wait till someone leaves (or is let go!) before you can move up the ranks. There's also very little communication between the guidebook side and the website/blog side of the brand. All writing for the blog is considered extra curricular and there's one person managing everything, which means other editors are simply treated like writers and submit work to that person.