I had high hopes... - Associate, Talent Management NBCUniversal Employee Review

Where do we start! Again, the entire Creative Partnerships department has a major retention issue. Each team has it's own problems, but the consistent feeling from employees is that there's no work/life balance, many (particularly junior staff) feel very underpaid, many teams are always understaffed so folks are taking on multiple job functions with no change in salary. We all understand that there will always be extenuating circumstances and busy periods where we all have to pinch hit and do more than we usually would, but in Creative Partnerships that is every day. Folks will spend months or years treading water, with management dangling the carrot of more support that never comes. Expectations are all over the place, communication is poor and it feels like the left hand never knows what the right hand is doing, deadlines are ridiculous, and many teams suffer from well intentioned but ultimately ineffective management. You would think that a massive company like NBCU would be better organized, but there are teams who have no project management tools or awareness, and project progress is tracked in individual notebooks or by scrolling down email chains. Like many media companies, NBCU talks the talk when it comes to values but they consistently, across the board, fail to walk the walk-- There was more than 1 instance of discrimination against pregnant women. Multiple people on the Talent Management team had to leave because their mental health suffered in a BIG way, to the extent that our families had to step in and let us know that we were not ourselves at this job. Diversity is about ticking a box, and not about any actual change/progress.