3.0
Jul 9, 2014
Former employee, less than 1 year
Philadelphia, PA
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook
Pros
The pay was great for journalists, and the office atmosphere was good. It was nice having a cafe downstairs in the building.
Cons
Poor planning and management sunk the magazine division. hibu should never have hired so many field editors or expanded the number of magazines so quickly. The focus should have been on quality from the publication managers, not quantity. Also, a less ridiculous deadline schedule might have helped the PMs out - instead of bunching magazines up into one week, spread them out more. In less than six months we went from "magazines are awesome!" to getting laid off. The new execs hired in March never gave the magazine department a chance.