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Washington Life Magazine Reviews

2.7

42% would recommend to a friend

(5 total reviews)

Soroush Richard Shehabi

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5 reviews
3.0
6 July 2012

Never a dull moment

Anonymous employee
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Pros

comfortable work environment. friendly and laid back. fast-paced deadlines. Lots of freedom to get your work done. Lots of perks and events!

Cons

management is usually easy to work with, however on occasion they can be very difficult. They are very busy and not in the office a lot, so working with them and getting work done can be tough. less than average pay.

4.0
9 Mar 2024
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Pros

If you enjoy magazines, writing, autonomy and being social and attending events from restaurant, art, film and theatre openings to sports events and charity fundraisers then Washington Life was a great place to work. Travel stories for all editors a big plus! You need to be a self starter and keep deadlines.

Cons

The lifestyle more than makes up for the low pay since to live that lifestyle you would need to be making $300-500k somewhere else.

1.0
5 Oct 2021
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Pros

It was fun being invited to some really cool parties and we liked to go on these super cool travel junkets all over the country that were all paid for by PR companies. We weren't expected to write about them for the magazine afterwards, which was a bonus, as the publisher didn't seem to care, which was nice.

Cons

The owners of the magazine, a husband and wife team, are absolutely two of the most abusive people I've ever worked for. We had to work in their cramped house, and often we'd smell weed coming from their backyard. They are also serious Coca Cola addicts, if you know what I mean. They'd often argue with each other in meetings, and then go after staffers two on one, berating them with horrible insults until they cried. Over the three years I was there, I witnessed them berate staffers so badly that a staffer would run out and literally not come back to work. They were often days or sometimes late with our pay, because they were often on vacation. One time we had to track them down skiing in Switzerland, because they had forgotten to pay us for nearly 10 days. The toughest part was learning that all of the hard work we put into making the magazine was hardly reaching anyone, because they were printing tens of thousands fewer magazines than they were telling us or their advertisers, who were essentially getting ripped off.

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