Pros
First-off business is doing well. Look at the stock price history. Look at the track record. As far as I can tell, this ship is well-steered. I am fortunate enough to be working for a reasonable boss who allows us to maintain a reasonable work-life balance. My boss doesn't micromanage and seems to genuinely care about our professional well-being and satisfaction. While not the norm here at WWE (as you can see from various other reviews), it shows that good people do in fact exist in the org. Pro-wrestling is a lot of fun and there's definitely a passionate crowd in the office with great camaraderie. We never run out of banter or get tired of wrestling storyline speculation. Office location is great for folks who live in Fairfield County - especially if they have families or kids. The easy commute makes it a great lifestyle job. Prior to joining WWE, I was commuting into NYC. Now that I'm here, I feel like my family life has improved 10x times. Having more time with my kids everyday is invaluable to me. I could have taken a similar role at NBCU in the city that would pay $60-75k more per year (all inclusive) than my current comp here at WWE, but I didn't. I turned that down and never regretted it.
Cons
Problems are numerous. (1) Promotion & Retention of Great People: Having gone through the review cycles, I can say with certainty now that WWE doesn't like to promote people. It is extremely difficult to move up, and attain a higher role/compensation even if one is outperforming the rest of the herd. And promotion is based very little on any objective performance evaluation - but a lot on tenure and on subjective opinion of your group's SVP who is given a rough impression of your work by your immediate boss at whatever level of clarity he or she is able articulate or conjure (you don't even get the chance to present your own case or articulate your own work). The annual merit raise at WWE is pathetic (compared to other companies in my experience). Whatever comp you start with is pretty much where you will stay going forward. The best people tend not to stay very long. (2) People Leveling Issues: In my time at WWE, I've found that there is a pervasive people-leveling issue. I've worked with brilliant Directors who should be Senior Directors. And I've worked with moronic Senior Directors who definitely should hold a lower title. I've also come across amazing Senior Directors who should be VPs, while bumping against lazy VPs who really should just leave. (3) Old-school Hierarchical Corporate Culture of 'Cater-to-the-Top' Here VPs and above get window offices. Everyone else gets the internal cubicles with no day light. This type of office floor planning/arrangement hasn't been seen since the 1980's. If you go to Google, Yahoo, and Facebook offices, you will see the huge difference (the exact opposite). They're all open floor plans and everyone has access to daylights and external views. Individual offices at those modern tech firms are setup in a way that do not block and monopolize the views/daylight. They all have glass walls (so everyone can see each other and feel connected). Modern companies cater to everyone as opposed to only those at the top of the pyramid. They go out of their way to make sure that everyone feels included and valued. It is the exact opposite here at WWE. WWE have separate lounges and hangout areas for execs/management and for employees. The rooftop hangout is even sectioned off in one corner for execs only (the mere idea of segregation of this nature would have been laughed down so hard at Facebook and Google, where they value organizational flatness and inclusivity). WWE execs really goes out of their way to avoid interacting with the everyone else. Here's another example - at the most recent company X'mas holiday party, we had a huge buffet banquet for the entire corporate HQ at the Delamar Hotel in Greenwich. The execs had a separate room at the event for themselves, where everyone else wasn't allowed to go in! No joke! In summary, WWE in general really goes out of their way to make everything feel very hierarchical and silo'd - from office floor plans to event planning, to HR policies, to actual day-to-day operations, etc.