The worst company I have EVER worked for - Media Strategist Salem Media Group Employee Review

1.0
16 Dec 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Insurance is decent and inexpensive, but only if you essentially give away all of your personal data in exchange for a lower rate. They pay for your phone and Internet.

Cons

Whew, where do I begin. Managers are incompetent and don't want to be bothered with training; when you start, they essentially send you a ton of links to company systems and expect you to just figure it out. As a seller, I had no idea what I was doing or what I was selling or what anything was 80% of the time, so I had to improvise and face the consequences later. Anytime I had an urgent issue with a campaign or client, Managers were always slow to respond or just wouldn’t respond, period. Unless a sale was involved, they didn’t want to be bothered. And campaigns ALWAYS had issues because either we were told to sell the wrong strategies and campaigns severely underdelivered, or clients eventually found out how ridiculously expensive our CPMs were versus the competition. It never failed, 1 of the 2 scenarios always happened. Campaign fulfillment is offshore and horrendous; campaigns typically do not fulfill contracted impressions and they use outside vendors for EVERYTHING. I typically did their job for them. If you are serious about digital marketing and digital sales, stay FAR away from this company. They just repackage other companies' products as their own and sell it at a premium, all while leaving you on an island and making you figure everything out on your own.

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Salem Media Group Response
3y
Thank you for taking the time to give us your feedback. Our discounted insurance rates for participation in the wellness program is something we do to encourage better health & wellness, not to collect personal data. We are sorry to hear that your outlook on Salem Media Group is other than positive. We value what you have to say as it allows us to see how we can improve for the future. We take pride in our company and have always strived to be a great place to work. We would like to hear more from you, please contact us at hr@salemmedia.com or 805-233-3129.

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Solid leadership Forward thinking Faith driven

Cons

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Salem Media Group Response
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Thank you for sharing your experience and kind words about our leadership and mission. We appreciate your honest feedback about staffing and are always working to balance resources to best serve our teams and audiences. Wishing you all the best in your future endeavors!
2.0
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Great supportive local environment, people called to work there to support the mission.

Cons

Corporate digital leadership is disjointed and systems are chaotic. Actual delivered campaigns are inevitably flawed and mis managed. Retaliatory, narcisstic, abusive corporate digital leadership. Constant systems changes and zero assistance in navigating. More and more digital agency and other jobs outsourced to Asia. Salespeople are exhausted and burned out by programs failing. Zero accountability taken by Ad Ops team for mistakes or extrene lag time in responses from internal automated systems. Salary cuts to 'help the company' plays on the mission minded employees, taking advantage of employees good intentions by underpaying them compared to industry. No 401K match.

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