FOX Sports Reviews

3.6

69% would recommend to a friend

(494 total reviews)
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Eric Shanks

84% approve of CEO

36% positive business outlook

FOX Sports has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 494 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The FOX Sports employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Media and communication industry (3.7 stars).

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494 reviews
2.0
19 Apr 2016
Recommend
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Business outlook

Pros

Good benefits, nice coworkers.

Cons

Long training period (up to 6 months). Low morale, so many people hate their jobs. Most stay because they're comfortable and maybe not very ambitious. Low pay, starts at about 31,000 a year, you have to work 2 years before you can apply and test to become a level II operator which I was told gets about a $1-$2 raise. Very long and late hours, youre either going to start on overnight or late evenings ( working till midnight) not for people who like spending time with their family or have any type of social life (no weekends off). They have a very strict late policy, you cannot even be 1 minute late, no matter the traffic. You waste about 4-5 hours of your day sitting in a dark room, alone, watching the same tired reruns until your live game starts. Even if you're finished with everything and you have 2 hours left in the day you cannot leave early. There's really nothing to move up to besides level III operator or supervisor if you can do enough brown nosing.

1.0
16 Jun 2015

Cronyism, Contempt for Employees, Lies, and Incompetence

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The company does pay on-time and provides cheap but decent heath insurance. They pay is low though.

Cons

No one, and I mean no one, is promoted because of merit or competence. If you are management's friend then you're golden, no matter what you do. Bringing legitimate problems to management's attention doesn't get the problems solved, it gets you in trouble and singled out. Also, accountability is only for front line employees, anyone who is a supervisor or above is allowed full discretion to do whatever they want, however they want, whenever they want.

2.0
25 Oct 2015

Go FOX yourself

Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

If you're into sports, it can be pretty cool. Most of the lower-level employees (Segment Producers and below) are awesome to work with. FOX is very corporate, so with that comes an excellent benefits package, and management was always cool about taking time off, provided it wasn't during the holidays or major championship weeks. Also, free snacks.

Cons

Depending on the show, you're expected to work whenever sports are happening. So no free nights, weekends or holidays... this is, of course, to be expected if you're set on a career in sports, but full-time employees regularly pull 16- to 18-hour days and 6-day workweeks (and this is especially true during big broadcasts of FOX properties... the World Series, NASCAR, UFC etc). There are VERY few women working behind the camera that are anywhere above PA or AP level... not a single female line producer, only a couple directors, and save for one in Features, *zero* in any coordinating/executive producer (or similarly managerial-type) spots. The new executives have, as many outlets have alluded to, sought to make FS1 the "edgy" ESPN-alternative, which has amounted to hiring festering discharge like Colin Cowherd (!) and Jason Whitlock (!!), and stressing a debate-centric platform (à la First Take) for most shows, as opposed using stats (or logic) to convey information. Advancement depends largely on social standing (or, in some cases, how well you flirt), rather than ideas or output.

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