ESPN reviews

4.0

79% would recommend to a friend

(1,301 total reviews)
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93% approve of CEO

69% positive business outlook

ESPN has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 1,301 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The ESPN employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Audiovisual y medios de comunicación industry (3.9 stars).

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5.0
Dec 20, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

ESPN is an extremely collaborative experience. Doors are almost always open for discussions about Processes, Content, Execution and ways to improve all of these areas. Many of ESPN's employees have the ability to suggest improvements and different approaches that will aide the company in moving forward and becoming as efficient as possible.

Cons

The workload. "With great power comes great responsibility" (or so a famous Super Hero once said) and ESPN has an enormous amount of responsibility to provide a tremendous amount of quality content. Producing Twenty Four hours of content, over three quarters of which is LIVE TV, is very daunting, not to mention all of the online, radio, print and mobile content. ... It can get a bit overwhelming to think about the amount of content ESPN produces. Also, the pressure of always providing the best TV is a bit life-consuming. Work-Life balance is emphasized, but to truly succeed in TV (or so I've seen so far), that balance gets skewed a bit by the dedication to Work.

2.0
Dec 2, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

You work for ESPN plain and simple. Your work day involves watching and talking about sports. You are up to date on all of the latest news and get to work with some of your favorite sports personalities, not to mention the occasional athlete drop in. And if your looking for a job that make people envious this is it. Tell someone you work for ESPN and you almost always get a positive response.

Cons

The hours make it nearly impossible to have a social life away from work and dont expect for your hard work to pay off in a raise or promotion.

3.0
Nov 28, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

If you're a sports fan, and have a thirst for sports knowledge, what better place to learn than at The Worldwide Leader in Sports, ESPN. The benefits are real good and supervisors are very understanding as far as time off.

Cons

Depending on the position, the hours can be rather stressing. Not so much the amount of hours, but the time of day a person' shift is. I work 3rd shift, and the department I work in is on the non-production side, consequently the productivity isn't too high. Also, in my particular department, there isn't much flexibility because of the few people that work in my department.

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