American City Business Journals Employee Reviews
Out of 50 American City Business Journals employee reviews, 39% were positive. The remaining 61% were constructive reviews with the goal of helping American City Business Journals improve their work culture.
Briefly describe your overall experience at your company
What do you like best about the leadership team?
I started shortly before the previous CEO passed away unexpectedly. What I liked best about Whit's leadership team was their conservatively-slanted attempt to maintain what Ray had created. However, when that failed, they should have tried something new. It's unfair to criticize w/ 20/20 hindsight
I find our executives to be top-notch.
What does the leadership team need to get better at?
Get some smart, fresh leader who understand employee retention and how to drive revenue
Not siloing everything that they control. Communication between management and day to day employees is practically non-existent.
Communication, consistency, emails day and night and culture.
Caring for their employees and creating an authentically healthy, transparent, and unified working environment.
Saying no to nepotism once in awhile.
What is the best part about your compensation package?
The salary includes performance bonuses.
Why do you feel undervalued and what would make you feel better about your compensation?
Never had a pay increase. Never had an inflation adjustment.
Stock options to share in the responsibilities and successes of team performance. The bonuses are just not incentivizing enough.
A raise for the first time in years and ownership’s children/executives treating us with respec
Advertising Directors are overcompensated as are seasoned Publishers. This industry no longer thrives on print revenue, 60% of the revenue model is now coming from the consumer side; events and audience, that should be accounted for. Stop putting warm bodies in sales roles to manage existing clients
What are some of the best things about your team?
care about their jobs and try to do a good job
Dedicated smart people trying to do good work.
Extremely compentant team. They are really a pleasure to work with.
What do your coworkers need to improve and how could you work together better?
Emphasis on teamwork should be paramount. Too much unprofessionalism and jockeying for managerial favor in the workplace for my taste. Intradepartmental romantic dramas take up too much time to manage, unless, of course, the manager is the paramour. It made me feel quite uncomfortable.
They could start acting like adults.
Communication, break down the walls between sales and events, audience teams.
What is most positive about the culture and environment at your company?
People are kind and respectful to one another.
The restaurant food is decent
My direct team was amazing. The constant rotation of sales reps was awful, the publisher was nuts, corporate was blind to everything that was happening or pretended to be.
Everyone is really supportive and always working toward common goals.
What needs to change to make the company culture better?
I'd have to say that mismanagement like this starts at the top and corrupts every level all the way down. I definitely do not feel comfortable speaking to the managerial chain all the way up. The few times I attempted, I was rudely told to "Mind my own business." So... Good luck with that!
More integrity. An end to all the nepotism. An HR department that actually has employees best interest in mind.
End the nepotism and consider merit
What did you like most about the interview process?
The coffee was very good.
It was short and limited.
Finding employment and the fancy building.
It was extremely comprehensive in scope.
What would you improve about your company's interview process?
Look for the most qualified person..
Would depend on each Journal's leadership.
Relocation is key to attracting talent
What's going wrong and how can it be improved?
1980's thinking in the 21st century.
Start learning the names of employees who aren’t related to you. Tell your bratty sons to treat people with respec
New leadership. New owners. No more family members getting all the executive positions.
Get rid of the dinosaurs, invest in local talent, engage your teams, create better lines of communication and collaborate. Grow your employees and embrace their diversity.
What do you like best about your company?
The health insurance, 401K and vacation plans are good.
The benefits are pretty decent.
What would you most like to see improved at your company?
Start hiring for important positions based on merit instead of family ties.
Hire and promote based on merit, not family ties.