NESN Reviews

The culture is extremely problematic. There is no diversity, with the excuse of "covering male dominated sports like MLB and NHL." There is very little room for career advancement. They'll use you, so you should use them: use all the opportunities given, suck it up to an extent as the culture is pretty toxic, then leave after a few years to the next step in your career. Also, the compensation is very low (although expected in this industry).

Middle and upper management, for the most part, are so disconnected from the day-to-day of the company that they have no idea what's going on and where the company needs to improve. Mission of NESN's upper management is to just become a "yes person", dump the work on the middle manager who then dumps the work on their team and then the upper management collects a bonus because they're thought of doing a good job. The company laid off 20% of it's workforce after I left earlier in the year and the ask for everyone is still to do more and more. Zero accountability for the managers at the company. As long as they say yes to their boss their job is safe but they don't actually do anything or help find solutions to issues. Awful work/life balance. Make you come into the office four days a week for no reason at all other than to have you in meetings all day. Once you become a manager all it means is you are in meetings 24/7 and never actually getting work done. Then just dump work on your employees. For a media company NESN has always been 5 years behind. Even changes made when it seemed like they were getting more modern missed the mark completely. It's one person's vision for a demographic they have no idea about. Micromanagement which leads to a crippling anxiety to freely think Compensation is insanely low - for the amount of responsibilities you have and to live in the Greater Boston area