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Q&A With NPR Employees

NPR means joining a culture of unique perspectives, all working for the same goal — to create a more informed public. When you step into NPR, you'll be alongside some of the most curious, intelligent and accomplished journalists and storytellers around. NPR's mission is carried out with the hard work and creative contributions of more than 900 employees all across the globe. Talented professionals with an incredibly diverse array of talents and backgrounds — from audio, print and visual journalists, to developers, designers, engineers, executives, communications specialists, IT experts, lawyers, accountants and so much more — all coming together to create, support and promote NPR's award-winning content.

How employees describe working at NPR

They're thoroughness and unbiased reporting

Accurate information. The half hour or hour shows that thoughtful people dealing with one focused issue are priceless.

Multiple programs, news, new music, podcasts, too many programs to list, make this a drop down list for each category of news, culture

NPR needs to be defunded by federal money. They are completely bias to the truth and they do not represent the American people.

Im involved in the daily production of news.

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Q&A With NPR Employees

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  • Find a way to support fewer products so teams don’t have to context switch endlessly. Tie roadmaps together between teams so as a department we are all working towards the same goals.

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  • NPR employees rate their manager a B- or 71/100 and the majority believe their manager truly cares about them as a person. Most of the employees (80%) also feels pretty comfortable providing negative feedback directly to their boss.

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Aggregated Employee Answer on Comparably

  • NPR employees rates their pay and overall compensation a B or 74/100. 65% of employees believe they are paid fairly and 67% of employees get raises every year.

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  • 25% of the same employees also feel like NPR is invested in their career growth. On average, majority of employees do not have a mentor to help them navigate their career at NPR.

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33% of NPR employees would encourage their friends to become coworkers, whereas 34% are neutral and 33% would not recommend working at NPR to their friends.

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