1) Starting salary is good but then salaries fall behind and after three years, you can probably earn more elsewhere.
2) Management is very unreliable - some line managers are great, others are totally useless so it depends on what team you are on. But it doesn't appear that being a good manager is considered to be important so some people have got away with being bad for years. If you have a bad one, you need to try and find a good editor to give you advice and help you move.
3) it is hard to tell who is actually in charge of anything since you have an editor who hires you and appears to be your line manager and oversees pricing and commentary, a BIR editor who also tells you what to do, a news editor that also thinks he should be telling you what to do, a senior editor on some teams, and sometimes biz dev asking for things as well. So everyone can order you around but no one will tell you what the most important thing to do actually is. And none of these editors actually talk to each other
4) it is really hard to work with people from other offices because again, no one seems to actually be in charge so the people abroad don't know if they can or should work on a story with you and you don't know if or how you could ask or tell them to get some information for you.
5) technology is pretty bad, the customer platform is really old fashioned and reporters have to do a lot of work by hand to get data together. There are one or two editors around who know anything to be able to help with that.
