NBCUniversal reviews

3.9

78% would recommend to a friend

(5,310 total reviews)

Mike Cavanagh

80% approve of CEO

59% positive business outlook

NBCUniversal has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 5,310 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
Oct 12, 2022
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Pros

If you love television, it's incredibly exciting to work at NBCU. I'll have lifelong memories of seeing a closed SNL musical guest's rehearsal and being backstage at the TODAY show. The Creative Partnerships team is full of wildly talented, intelligent, and kind people who are a pleasure to work with. It's a shame that poor management and team culture results in the department being a revolving door. Talented and capable people are constantly leaving to find better positions.

Cons

Where do we start! Again, the entire Creative Partnerships department has a major retention issue. Each team has it's own problems, but the consistent feeling from employees is that there's no work/life balance, many (particularly junior staff) feel very underpaid, many teams are always understaffed so folks are taking on multiple job functions with no change in salary. We all understand that there will always be extenuating circumstances and busy periods where we all have to pinch hit and do more than we usually would, but in Creative Partnerships that is every day. Folks will spend months or years treading water, with management dangling the carrot of more support that never comes. Expectations are all over the place, communication is poor and it feels like the left hand never knows what the right hand is doing, deadlines are ridiculous, and many teams suffer from well intentioned but ultimately ineffective management. You would think that a massive company like NBCU would be better organized, but there are teams who have no project management tools or awareness, and project progress is tracked in individual notebooks or by scrolling down email chains. Like many media companies, NBCU talks the talk when it comes to values but they consistently, across the board, fail to walk the walk-- There was more than 1 instance of discrimination against pregnant women. Multiple people on the Talent Management team had to leave because their mental health suffered in a BIG way, to the extent that our families had to step in and let us know that we were not ourselves at this job. Diversity is about ticking a box, and not about any actual change/progress.

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3.0
Oct 2, 2022

Not Bad But Could Be Better

Anonymous employee
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Pros

- Overall fairly nice place to work. You have a few bad apples here and there but overall everyone is pretty friendly - Good benefits and amenities? The lunchroom is pretty convenient and fairly affordable, healthcare and 401K are great

Cons

- They're cutting costs significantly and everyone else is suffering as a result - Not enough staffing all around so when one person calls out you can be called for short turnarounds, work a week straight or more, or work more than 12 hrs a day to cover shifts - They don't seem to promote much or give raises despite having very capable staff who might already be doing the job they're hiring someone else for - Its not easy to get jobs much less interviews in other departments of the company. It almost feels you'd have a better chance at a job if you weren't an NBC employee - Hiring managers/recruiters can be very elitist in selecting candidates. Most of the candidates I've seen come through in the past few years have been predominantly White with degrees from expensive colleges - There's a lot if subtle racism that goes unchecked and HR/managers will more quickly punish someone for reacting to it as opposed to correcting the behavior of the person perpetrating it

3.0
Sep 3, 2022
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Pros

Poor leadership failing great staff

Cons

Poor leadership; HR should listen to complaints

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