Great company but Horrible Managers - Database Administrator New York Times Employee Review

3.0
Mar 29, 2019
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Pros

The company is great to work and they spend lot of money for the software-cloud based environments and try to keep in par with latest technologies. All new out-of-the-box platform and great opportunity to expose ourself to latest technology. One should not worry to find any job anywhere after working in NYT because of the brand name and updated skill sets.

Cons

Having said great about NYT, I will have to make complete U turn on the management strategy followed and the skills the manager have to manage profession candidates here. I would rate it as -1 in our team as my manager always attacks on our weakness and thinking that its best strategy to get the work done. He doesn't realize how it impacts the employees confidence, health and motivation. We are professionals and if we are picked by NYT we should be good and capable of getting stuff done based on our capacity and all the professional need guidance, support, tools and motivation. The manager I worked with seems very in-secured, immature, and have no respect to you as individual and your skillset. He would attack you on all fronts in 1-1 that you lack which he keeps monitoring throughout the day and make you feel miserable and unfit for the job. I have seen few members of my team quitting due to health issue as they could not cope up with this stress and un healthy environment. I did quit solely for this hot-tempered, dual personality, in-secured mentality manager who acts crazy at 1-1 by chewing up your brains off and wants your apology for anything that he didn't like as it was kindergarten style. I finally realized I was done with this manager and I quit. I pity the other team members going through the same situation and I tried to make it better but talking to upper management and with HR. I don't believe they have taken it seriously until they get sued.

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