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America's Test Kitchen

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A terrible, unaffordable place to work! - Coordinator America's Test Kitchen Employee Review

1.0
10 Oct 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Generally good work/life balance. Sometimes there is leftover (sometimes expired) food scraps you're allowed to take home.

Cons

Salary is downright abysmal. Most people here are working two jobs just to make ends meet, while taking on double, or even triple, the amount of job responsibilities they were originally hired for. Middle management gets slashed at the end of the budget year in order to save money, but the executive team (or family of the executive team) gets company paid-for flights and high rise luxury apartments. These roles don't end up getting filled, but pushed onto entry-level employees whose hunger for experience gets taken advantage of -- yet there's no career mobility here to speak of. This is evident in the very high turn over rate, poor morale, and lack of camaraderie between teams. There's also an alarmingly lack of diversity and sustainability at this company. Little to no people of color work here; there is not ONE single person of color in a managerial or high level position. When promotions do occur (and it is rare), it gets awarded to white men (or family members of the executive team) There's a total disregard for sustainability practices as well; tons of waste gets produced every day without a blink of an eye, and executives fly back and forth multiple times a week since they don't live in the state.

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5.0
17 Apr 2022
Anonymous freelancer
Recommend
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Pros

In-office benefits like food tastings and equipment giveaways are the icing on the cake; environment is supportive, kind and delicious

Cons

Hard to think of any!

1.0
3 Jan 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

the people who are not in the C-suite or in management are the best, most kind, funny, caring, and hardworking people you will ever meet. they are the ONLY reason you stay for so long. you get food sometimes but it's after it's been moved and manipulated for photoshoots so it's always cold and touched a lot.

Cons

literally everything else they fired basically every person of color who was on the TV program or outward-facing in media they completely removed two brands out of nowhere (cook's country and ATK kids) and did not move the test cooks into the other brands for some reason management is awful, they don't trust their employees and they breathe down your neck to make sure that you're doing a good job all the while they want you to do awful work that you can't even stand by the pay is horrible and the insurance is worse. usually you get paid 10-20 thousand dollars less than anywhere else in your position. they basically removed all the perks they used to have the new C-suite is running the company into the ground, they are removing what makes ATK special. they want to be as successful as bon appetit and epicurious but they're not willing to put in the work. all of their best employees are leaving because of the poor salary and horrible treatment and the C-suite just doesn't care. if you are not looking to advance your career and want to be treated badly and with mistrust, this is the perfect place for you.

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