ESPN Reviews

Current Employee – been working at ESPN

Pros – Constant growth. Opportunities for achievers. Environment pays for performance.

Cons – Competitive. Can be cut-throat. Bristol, CT is not a fun town.

Advice to Senior Management – Senior leadership needs more young blood.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at ESPN

Pros – If sports is your passion, ESPN is the place to work.

Cons – The promotions are often based more upon seniority than job performance.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at ESPN

Pros – Name recognition
Around Sports
Making Great TV

Cons – Long Hours
Hectic Pace
Demanding production schedule

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at ESPN

Pros – Great BRAND.
Direct Access to On-air Talent.
Sports All Day/All the Time.
Dominance in the Sports Media Industry.
Great Diversity, Campus, and Team Building Events.

Cons – Siloed and competing groups all doing the same thing.
Lack of consistent, cohesive Technology Processes and/or Standards across all divisions of the organization.
Promotions based on length of tenure versus quality of work output.

Advice to Senior Management – Like any large organization, your experience will be dependent on the group you end up in. My hope is that the "Worldwide Leader in Sports" consolidates their technology departments and moves towards a singular cohesive strategy for content delivery. They should also evaluate employees based on equitable, quantifiable, measurable standards versus subjective perceptions.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at ESPN

Pros – Good entry-level pay.
Health insurance package.
Looks great on your resume.

Cons – Be extra careful - Management has a history of forcing people to resign before the end of their probation period.
Management will give you a bad performance review, and then refuse to let you see your own work records or any "official evidence".
Whenever your manager has verbal communication with you, via face-to-face or over-the-phone, make sure it is followed up with an email, because email is the only thing the company will officially recognize.
Also make personal copies of all emails concerning your work performance and contact with management.
If you are forced to resign, and have to file for unemployment, make sure you tell the dept of labor exactly what happened, especially when there has been no "official written record" of you being forced to resign.
Watch your back at all times.

Current Employee – been working at ESPN

Pros – Colleagues, Work Place, Sports, Work on something you love, Work with others who share the same love and interest as you

Cons – Not personally but some have tough hours such as 3 - 12 am but only con may be salary at beginning

Advice to Senior Management – None they did a perfect job keeping control of jobs and making sure there were opportunities for interns by interacting with them.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at ESPN

Pros – People, leading broadcaster regionally, ability to lead great teams.

Cons – Need to invest in staying an industry leader in broadcast technology.

Advice to Senior Management – Lead, do not follow when it comes to business and industry innovation.

Former Employee – worked at ESPN

Pros – The technology, some of the worker-level employees are great people. If you're a sports fan there's monitors showing sports in a lot of places about the workplace. The technical people are great.

Cons – They demand a 12 hour workday of everyone who is salaried: from the lowest paid admins to the managers. Very high turnover as people are misled when hired and told the long hours are "just temporary". Some of the managers are verbally abusive, others are hiring their friends and relatives regardless of competency: relatives with no skills for a particular job will get promoted over highly skilled employees. Very bad place to work.

Advice to Senior Management – Start treating your employees with simple human respect, allow for a reasonable work/life balance, fire the half of management that promotes bad practices.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at ESPN

Pros – It's ESPN -- name recognition and strong brand. Disney-owned.

Cons – Siloed, too many departments doing similar work. Little work-life balance. Is more bureaucratic than necessary.Too many VPs. Takes a long time to get anything done that needs approval.

Advice to Senior Management – Need better organizational structure and processes to ensure employee efficiency and effectiveness.

Former Employee – worked at ESPN

Pros – Worked for the IT department in North Campus, It is fun and relaxed environment. With TVs all around you will definitely won't much in sport and plus there is lot of activities going on the main campus.

Cons – Lack of competitive pay and growth. Also felt like there is push to hire more and more rather than focus on getting things done with available resources and building and promoting them.

 In IT department Indians make up large portion of work force but very few are in management level which was little puzzling.

Advice to Senior Management – Management needs to more open to promote talented hires.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend