Vantaggi
If you can avoid management glare, you could work on some interesting subjects
Svantaggi
Where to start there is so much wrong it would be easier to say avoid at all costs but for further insight here is why you should avoid. I had heard that OR media had a bad reputation but was not prepared for how bad it actually was. I have never worked somewhere with such a lack of respect for its employees. Months of hard work diminished and throw away on a whim. No respect of experience they have hired, you are literally treated Iike the hired help. Regularly kept waiting for meetings by senior management who never turn up. But expect you to wait anyway. When i say regularly i mean week after week multiple meetings a week. Saw previous HOP who was attempting to bring in change thrown out with no justification, replacement who lasted about a month. Current production management no clear leadership, too scared to voice opinions in case fired. No structure, procedures, overworked etc. Producers work not respected, senior staff more concerned with keeping jobs than respecting the teams and the work and experience they bring to the table. Saw whole productions dropped again on whim of owner after significant work which causes those working on shows to feel demoralized and in some cases they had pulled in significant favors to get materials or brought other people onto projects, they then look like idiots to these peers. This company has big ideas but unable to get anything out the door, if you work here you could likely never see your work broadcast anywhere. In the time i worked here i never saw a finished show delivered even with the large team that had been built. Should it take 2+ years to make a single hour of TV, which is traditional documentary, elsewhere i have done this in less that’s 9 months For a company which is only making shows based in the Middle East it is strange that you will not hire anyone from the Middle East, anyone who has previously worked in Saudi or has a heritage from the region. Also major lack of diversity in the team. I have never worked anywhere that takes a degree qualification from Cambridge or Oxford over real industry experience before. I witnessed people with no experience whatsoever hired over people with a decade of experience because of where they obtained their degree. This type of biased hiring left the rest of the industry 20 years ago.