NBCUniversal reviews

4.0

79% would recommend to a friend

(5,306 total reviews)

Mike Cavanagh

81% approve of CEO

59% positive business outlook

NBCUniversal has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 5,306 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The NBCUniversal employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Audiovisual y medios de comunicación industry (3.7 stars).

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3.0
Apr 16, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Benefits of staff jobs, perks, people, resources. people that work at nbc are the best in the business. you get access to the best people professionally and the best technology.

Cons

lateral movement/contract employment. non staff jobs dont pay well. jobs are posted on the webstie often after they are hired into.

2.0
Mar 21, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Really fun to work for a studio since you work with great content

Cons

Horrible unless you are an IMLP, FMLP or OMLP which is their GE leadership program. You graduate from this program and basically step on everyone else to become a manager at least. Some even become Directors and have been out of school for only a few years. Very poor management especially middle to upper management. Many people leave and get tired of working long hours without any recognition unless they are part of the GE click. I worked for a few managers and all were not very good but had been at NBC for years so the review process is not doing a great job at weeding out poor talent. The review process is a joke as your raise is not related to how well you do. Overall management do not have enough to do and spend their day looking at their emails or lecturing their employees on how to talk to people. Yes you read that right. Go back and watch Office Space if you want to imagine what it would be like working in this very corporate studio. I always wondered what Directors or VPs (so many of them) did all day. They don't manage projects, produce anything, manage their teams effectively, empower their people or do anything. Please remove some of these layers and you will save millions. I am not saying fire everyone but look at how GE has turned NBC Universal into a training ground for their management program trainees. I came from an investment banking background and found it very frustrating to see these trainees who have no track record be given multi million dollar projects to manage and when they screwed up others were asked to step in and clean up the mess. As a matter of fact some of these made "managers" did the company a favor and left on their own only to have their covers blown and some even got fired. GE can save money if they stopped supporting these programs which have such a poor track record. I am glad I went to another studio where I feel very respected. My experience, education and abilities are very recognized. Everyone who has been promoted around me deserves it.

3.0
Mar 2, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Very good health benefits and 401k. There is always room for growth and advancement but its all up to you, if you are a hard worker and speak up, the opportunities are there for you. If you are right out of college, it is a great place to gain experience especially in the field of production and communications. They have a great entry level program called the Page Program which is highly competitive, you have to go through various interviews but if you get in, its a great opportunity to learn about all the different departments of NBC. The program involves giving tours as well as filling in at any department that might need assistance. When you are done with the program you get to interview for any open postions within the company. I was never a Page but my department hired many former Pages who moved on to working in Advertising, Production and Casting.

Cons

They are not as diverse as they claim to be..not enough diverse upper management. Need to also work on better training for their employees. Very long hours and usually pay is not that great.

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