What’s it like to work at a TV network?
Employment site Seek publishes 1000 visitor reviews a day submitted by former employees, including Australian TV networks.
They highlight the positive and the negative of companies and requite a star rating out of 5 equal to those supplied.
Like many workplaces, there are worldwide themes well-nigh colleagues, management, hours, pay and technology.
Here are a sample of the reviews virtually networks drawn from wideness the past 5 years.
Note that in some cases they could moreover be referring to employment in radio, publishing etc. and Seek stresses neither they nor the employer can modify the review.
4.1: 10 / Paramount (45 reviews)
The good things:
The people make the place. There are wondrous people here who value your effort and nurture your development.
Hybrid work wattle – I currently do 2 or 3 days in the office and the rest at home. Work life wastefulness is really great. Work is diverse and challenging unbearable to alimony it enjoyable and myself interested. Fun visitor and team to work with.
Network 10 offers a unconfined opportunity for growth and learning. Everyone on the team is supportive and keen to help in any way they can.
The people. The opportunities. The content. The inclusion.
Great minutiae opportunities and a fantastic culture. There is never a unrewarding moment at 10.
I’ve never worked for an organisation so focused on its people. And these people love what they do and gloat success together.
The challenges:
The pay could be better.
The technology here is a bit dated – for example our work computers are PCs, not laptops. Things are improving though. Moreover without merging with Viacom and then into the Paramount umbrella, connecting up all the technology infrastructure from these variegated entities is still a WIP.
Being part of a Global Network has the usual challenges, systems, setup etc. Working out how to navigate this is key.
We often had to try and do increasingly with less.. Which isn’t unchangingly a bad thing!
There was little to no movement within the visitor and management who prioritised promoting men made moving up plane increasingly challenging. Sometimes people who were the most familiar with the details weren’t given unbearable input in decision-making processes, which I think is worldwide everywhere, but is still frustrating & probably increasingly so in a highly technical field.
A lot of people had \”Ego’s\” and did not value you as a person. Sme nasty attitudes and Management was the worst….Appalling, and they don’t know how to take superintendency of their staff.
3.6: Foxtel (299 reviews)
The good things:
Good staff benefits, discounted products, self-ruling Foxtel and supportive Team Leader.
High Pay Rate, 3 breaks, flexible working rosters, friendly staff.
Very understanding company.
Free Foxtel and discounted broadband.
Good people. Good work culture.
Great visitor which genuinely tries to add fun to the working day. Diverse mix of employees, all inclusive undercurrent is expected and achieved. Highly skilled managers. Employees are not just numbers.
The challenges:
Low pay, upper management turnover and restructuring, next to no career minutiae or progression structure. Everything is unchangingly unfortunately well-nigh ‘the budget’ , or lack thereof.
Sadly the visitor has felt like it’s on the ripen the last few years. Plenty of redundancies, lack of minutiae opportunities and management don’t follow through on their promises and this is unstipulated due to making promises they know they can’t keep.
No challenges Foxtel has too much support for you too overly finger challenged. the only rencontre is stuff made redundant considering you never want to leave this job.
The undeniability quene was rented sometimes unappetizing out non stop.
Budgets diminished, less staff, increasingly workload for existing workers. No career advancement, stayed in same position for 5 years.
Mostly offshores to TCS in India which ways job stability and security is very less. Management can decide any random day that your position is going to India.
3.6: ABC (93 reviews)
The good things:
Good culture, many supportive people, good reputation amongst the public.
Some really lovely people and lots of opportunities for improving regulars and employee experience.
A work place where you finger you’re working for the irradiation of all Australians.
Working with the community.
Interesting place to work – good people – extremely diverse environment.
Job security, variety of work and smart, creative colleagues.
The challenges:
Extremely stressful work environment with constantly waffly targets. Lack of understanding from inside management and human resources.
Management can be very outdated – extremely political – a lot of waste.
No job security, top heavy management who are only interested in keeping their own jobs. Very little work life wastefulness and never go on maternity leave, you will be made redundant. I never did but many of my colleagues did and they did not come back.
Poor management. No idea of the direction, for the projects I worked on they weren’t thought well-nigh and end up having no budget. I was originally told there was plenty of long term work so really wasted my time without turning lanugo other roles.
You’re on undeniability 24/7. You’re never off.
Appalling management. Totally self focused. Poor pay and little endangerment of career advancement.
3.4: SBS (55 reviews)
The good things:
Honestly would be the first visitor where the culture is genuinely inclusive and everyone you come into contact with is passionate, fun and enjoys working for the brand. One of the few places where you won’t find many negative vibes, SLT and MD are very progressive and genuine people, this makes a real impact lanugo the line.
The people are truly passionate well-nigh what they do. There are so many aspects to make you proud to work here. I have ripened my career here and have had many opportunities for minutiae and career progression. Their parental leave policy and other policies and procedures are very inclusive and supportive.
The people and the culture!!! without a doubt ! I have worked for a number of organisations and SBS is at the top as far as stuff included, respected and valued. Meeting people from the most incredible backgrounds is a highlight, with such diversity brings many strengths. SBS does live its values and has a lanugo to earth culture. I am excited well-nigh the future and I am proud to be an employee of SBS.
The News team at SBS have a deep committment to their values and charter. They are nimble and single-minded to bringing a modern version of world news to Australian audiences.
Great colleagues. Unconfined office space. Unconfined connectivity to public transport. Unconfined work-life balance. No one bothers you when you are on leave, after-hours or on weekends.
Great people and a really impressive focus on a healthy work culture. I unchangingly finger listened to and supported and I moreover really fathom the feeling of trust from management. It’s not well-nigh the money at SBS, it’s well-nigh the charter, and making people’s lives better
The challenges:
Overall remuneration can be a sticking point for some wideness the business, it’s not an organisation to work for if you are purely driven by $.
Being public service, some aspects can be a bit bureaucratic which can sometimes rationalization delays.
Lacking strong leadership, recognition, and motivation.
Budget and resource constraints. But everyone works together to make it happen.
Stale people, negative, horrible and inappropriate management, not a pearly place.
About the only rencontre well-nigh working at SBS is the salary. It’s low compared to industry standard and you really need to ask for a pay rise, otherwise you won’t get one unless you go for a new role.
3.0: Nine Network (56 reviews)
The good things:
Cutting whet technologies. Fantastic people to work with. Overall relaxed and enjoyable working environment.
Close to home. Xmas hamper.
Exciting and interesting job for a graduate journalist.
Great visitor and managers.
Most of the co-workers are wondrous people.
I’ve been worldly-wise to learn new things, write stories and get noticed in the media industry. My skills have grown and I’ve met new friends and future collab partners for future ventures.
The challenges:
Different departments can be quite siloed and this is not unchangingly unconfined for collaboration and efficiency. Pay is getting largest but not the highest paying in the market.
Management is non-existent, and long working hours (weekends / without hours) for little pay.
Lack of support, poor pay and flexibility and cliquey management.
Management. Lots of micro management from management that didn’t know what their employees were doing. A lot of office politics as well.
Management and coworkers are nonflexible to deal with, it is a toxic environment.
Can be clicky and stuff media, there are some big egos to deal with.
2.7: Seven Network (47 reviews)
The good things:
Awesome team culture. Unchangingly enjoyable coming to work when we’re all passionate well-nigh the same goals.
People are unconfined and supportive. There is a diverse tuft of people who work collaboratively and want to be creative.
Hard working colleagues.
Nice work life balance.
Great culture, supportive environment and autonomous.
Everything. Loved it.
The challenges:
It’s challenging to be in a side of a visitor with enormous growth whilst suffering from the same sort of cut-backs and restrictions placed on unthriving parts of the business.
The workplace culture is not great. When I squint when on my experience, I realise just how immensely I didn’t see the toxicity. There are moreover many powerful personalities, both in the department I was in and in other areas that put everyone down. Moreover due to the age of the visitor and how much is going on, there is a lot to learn. It’s information overload which took me a while to learn but I believe it did help me in the end.
Everything from start to finish. Double standards.
Technology department under “construction” former CEO was not enlightened of the importance of technology for TV
If you’re on the marrow of the supplies chain, you’re unelevated everyone in all ways. The inequality is humongous.
Most of the staff are gossiping, toxic, story driven vultures. Pay is awful, hours are long. Editors don’t superintendency well-nigh employees.
Source: Seek
