CNN reviews

3.5

57% would recommend to a friend

(1,032 total reviews)
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Jeff Zucker

30% approve of CEO

36% positive business outlook

CNN has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 1,032 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The CNN employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Mídia e comunicação industry (3.9 stars).

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1K reviews
3.0
May 12, 2025
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

- Decent health benefits - Flexible work environment for non-producers/show teams and technical staff - Casual dress - Creative environment - Most people are very friendly and helpful

Cons

- Consistent change with little change management strategy - Lower pay scale for some positions - Lack of upskilling employees - little development opportunity - Higher ups make poor decisions without consulting Sr Directors - VP level - Heavily matrixed org -- hard to know who to go for what due to constant change and lack of communication - Never has been the same since Jeff Zucker left and they got rid of a lot of original programming

5.0
May 5, 2025

Ecomm

Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Fun place to work remote

Cons

Can’t move higher than management

3.0
May 5, 2025

Not a bright future

Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Good salary and people are generally nice.

Cons

Incompetent management, with no vision. Company is rotting from within.

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