ASCAP Reviews

Literally everything else! I'm not sure who is writing the positive reviews. They must be paying for the positive reviews b/c that's the only thing that makes sense. Leadership is the worst I've seen my whole career. The negative review are true. Believe them!!! They claim to be "upgrading" their products, but in reality they are attempting to put the body of a 2017 bmw on a 1995 ford. I cannot speak for many departments (however I still would not recommend working here at all), but the Product/Strat dev team is by far the WORST set of managers I’ve ever worked for in my life. I had more intelligent managers working as a teenager at a summer camp. The management is horrendous, unethical, unprofessional, and not very knowledgeable. If you are going for a product manager, project manager, designer or any other position on this team you will be in for total misery. Basically the mgmt that runs the show in this place is a total joke Literally this dept has been around for 3 years and you would be hard pressed to find any non-managers that have tenure for more than 1 year. The turnover is amazingly ridiculous. Resignations are rampant. Typically you will realize taking a job with this group was a mistake within the first 3 months and you will be back on the job boards. Forget the work itself, the biggest issue is the abusive treatment. You can expect to be berated, disrespected and spoken down to on a regular basis. You can expect to be micromanaged to the extreme but will be given no real direction and there is zero process. You can expect managers to make sure their team members take the fall if the mistake is theirs. They manage to hire really smart people, but have no idea what to do with them, then those people usually resign after less than 1 year. Also, if the people below the directors are more knowledgeable than them (which is inevitable) they will become insecure and you will soon be on the chopping block or they will take issue with you somehow. If you are an experienced worker that's used to doing things the right way and if you are used to working with clear sensible processes then this is not the place for you. They work development team to death, and there is no sense of appreciation for the work they do. Zero collaboration. The only way to be successful on this team is to either be totally complacent and have no voice, OR to be in the right clique in upper mgmt. Also HR is a total joke. There are a ton of complaints about the unethical nature of this management and HR does absolutely nothing.

They make you jump through 2 hoops to get paid. The base pay is at poverty level and there is no way you can live on that if you don't make commission for some reason. In order to receive monthly commission #1 You must meet your team revenue goals at 80%, but then you're only paid out at 10% split between all team members, which is nothing. You have to be 100% every month to receive a 20% payout or more. #2 You must meet a "license count" goal, which has absolutely nothing to do with revenue, making it hard to get compensated. This is a MAJOR monthly obstacle tied to your pay. For instance, you can be at 100% of your revenue (ASCAP GOT THEIR MONEY), but because you didn't meet a "license count", you still will not be paid. License count does not mean reaching 100% of your goal! If you have a goal of 32 licenses per month, but you got only 30 and you met your revenue goal at 80% or more, ASCAP will not pay you. Terrible team based pay structure; your pay is tied to the performance of others. If you meet your goals and another team member doesn't the team doesn't get paid. High level of stress to perform. One of the most stressful work environments you will ever encounter. I would hope that the members that ASCAP represents find out the fear based scare tactics that are used to bring money into the organization. I believe if the songwriters and music composers who ASCAP represents, knew the level of stress and emotional trauma that is passed down from the top to licensing managers all in the name of "music licensing", members would not want to be apart of this organization. I have never heard of an organization where the VP of licensing uses town square public humiliation to encourage performance. His tactics are to humiliate people to perform in front of their peers. He will send out monthly email about your performance and basically threaten your job if you don't perform; calls your performance "disgusting" constantly reminding you that you cost them money and are a liability if you didn't meet your monthly number. You will be told that you "didn't earn your keep" if you don't perform at 100%.