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 Médias et communication industry (3.9 stars).

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2.0
Feb 15, 2022

Riven with politics

Recommend
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Pros

A large, very influential market player with a global reach, and it's absolutely great to get that experience then move on to an organization that shoots straighter. Fantastic benefits and vacation packages. Nice, competent colleagues. Pay is awful at first but good if you advance.

Cons

Politics. The organization runs on national partisan politics, internal race-gender politics, including - or perhaps now predominantly - reverse discrimination politics, and clubby internal politics, often based on ethnic background. It's a mess. News is generally still high quality but comes second to political polemics.

1.0
Feb 11, 2022

Nepotism, back stabbing and awful culture

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Got to work with some incredible reporters

Cons

Nepotism is rife, culture protects higher ups, promise the world and deliver nothing when it comes to career development, sanctimonious editorial staff who try to spin opinions as news

5.0
Feb 7, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

I have excellent managers who never ask me to do something that they wouldn't.

Cons

Harder to gain technical skills for upward mobility outside of editor roles

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