Don't Do It - Anonymous employee The Newsette Employee Review

1.0
12 Jan 2019
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Startup culture and you may attend PR events

Cons

You are working out of a 23 year old's apartment. While I was there, she paid the absolute minimum salary that is unlivable in NYC unless your parents are still helping you out and can help you pay for rent or groceries. There are no benefits or stock options. This is the founder/boss' first and only job, so her management skills are non-existent. She doesn't know how to manage a company, let alone connect with her employees, build a solid team, or is able to address conflict in a professional, constructive manner. Expect texts and calls asking you to hop on and work before and after your agreed-upon hours. I don't think that I've heard (or experienced) the company having three or four employees hired at one time before they quit or were fired. Famous freelancer, Lauren Duca, has also negatively tweeted about The Newsette in the past, calling the newsletter "privileged complicity," with thousands of her followers agreeing. If you want to have a future in media, and be taken seriously, I don't believe you should do it here.

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5.0
9 Jan 2024
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

liked it. nice and smart people, good pay. don't know what else to say. leaving this so I can see other reviews on this site.

Cons

visibility to management could be better

1.0
6 Jan 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Your teammates will likely be smart, creative, and supportive—because they have to be, in order to survive. - If you want to learn resilience the hard way, this is your bootcamp.

Cons

- Leadership communicates with little regard for professionalism or respect. Feedback is often public, personal, and degrading. - The CEO regularly speaks to employees in a way that would not fly in any other workplace I’ve experienced. There is no sense of psychological safety. - Priorities shift constantly. Expectations are unclear, and direction is reactive rather than strategic. - There is no structured career path, meaningful mentorship, or long-term employee investment. - Work-life balance is a joke. Expect late-night messages, weekend demands, and zero respect for boundaries. - Experts are hired, then ignored. The CEO routinely inserts herself as the non-existent authority on everything, which stalls progress and demoralizes the people actually hired to do the work.

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