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I loved my experience working at Warner Music Group. I worked out of the Nashville office and enjoyed my colleagues there although there was a period of stressful transitions where senior level and chief level employees were being fired left and right from Feb 2017 - Nov 2017. That did not sit well with me. 

Having constant contact with the international offices of the corporation and the NYC and LA / Burbank offices was a plus. You truly are working in an international corporation with many moving pieces. For the most part, there was always someone there with the answers I needed. 

Company culture is wonderful. I made lasting relationships with my work colleagues. 

Team culture differs by department, however. Some teams are super engaging while others work in isolation. Be sure to understand what you're getting into in terms of work dynamics so you can meter your expectations. 

I worked on two teams while I was there. The first was very connected and engaging. I enjoyed that work experience. The second team was never in the building and if they were they were shut in their offices with the door closed hosting back-to-back meetings. I ended up forging relationships with other teams because my team was hardly ever available to answer questions / brainstorm / connect.

Overall, I enjoyed my experiences with the company. Just be sure to have your offer(s) and benefits in writing. I was pitched one offer and in reality, this was not the case, but I only realized this once I was months into my job. They will low ball you if you let them. Don't let them.

As a contractor at WMN, I can only speak to the work culture and not the actual benefits/salary or policy of WMG.  While the work is relatively easy and the perks are great, the culture leaves a lot to be desired.  Supported employees tend to have an entitled attitude with no appreciation of the support staff's time or protocols.  No concern for policy or security is shown, with all displaying an attitude that they have a reason that they should be above the policies in place.  Established timelines for procedures and implemented directives for workflow management are completely ignored with users calling and emailing directly and expecting immediate service, with no regard to support staff workload.  When added to HR's propagation of political ideology in a work environment, this tends to create a taxing environment that far outweighs any benefits or perks to working at this company.

Company was great but is currently undergoing wholesale changes not only in terms of business model--i.e., switching from physical to digital sales and affecting the company bottom line--but also adversely impacting the people supporting it...For example, the closure of IT and business user positions supporting physical sales is triggering a considerable number of layoffs without a realistic chance of retaining otherwise highly trained and experienced personnel.

Executive management (in New York) has been increasingly mandating more and more outsourcing jobs/functionality to India--risky long-term move--and also replacing experienced personnel from the west-coast with cheaper low-experience personnel in Nashville.

A typical day is always busy at a record label, there is not a dull moment when you are dealing with hundreds of people a day. 
\I've learned how to fully understand and negotiate a recording artist agreement together, learned how to calculate royalty rates, negotiate promo deals, work under pressure and beat deadlines, marketing, A&R and promotions. I've been a manager for multiple years and  my teams have completed tasks of paying out huge amounts of unpaid artist royalties. Realizing later on how that helped the artists and the label to continue to prosper. The culture is and vibe always changing like weather. As long as you don't get "under the weather" then everything is fine. If you love what you do nothing will be hard when doing it. The job wasn't hard it just had a few difficult moments. The people/co-workers were the most enjoyable. Getting to meet so many people who I can consider family is something amazing.

I started working at Warner Music Group as a Deskop Support Specialist.  My title grew to a senior level within 2 years.

 I gained knowledge with being the lead domestically for the windows 7 migration.  I am also efficient on mac support where I was very limited in the Mac environment.  My company paid for a class for SCCM where i received a completion certificate from microsoft.  I work with Windows Deployment Server and AIK I didn't know prior to working for them.

I have a great user environment where its really pleasant to work.  Not only do I support my user community, I have built relationships and trust which can never be changed.

 On a day to day basis, 60% of my job is Desktop Support on a senior level & 40% split from Executive level Support & Project management.

If you are not passionate about the music industry this is not the place for you. You have to be willing to start at the bottom and work your way up but only at the price of working extremely late hours, being overworked and underpaid, and threatening to quit (the only way to advance short of demanding a promotion). Everyone is deathly afraid of the executives and label heads, which makes for a toxic environment. Business units act as separate companies and unity and collaboration is scarce. Although the people are nice, dynamic, and hardworking, it doesn't make up for the lack of morale. More employees than not are "stuck" there due to comfort, laziness, or lack of motivation. Music biz is not as glamorous as it was back in its golden age.

Unfortunately this work environment had a lot of "cliques" and toxic culture,  discrimination of various forms was easily noticed in many departments throughout the company. Clear lack of direction from the top. Nepotism is a huge factor in these failures, underqualified children of former powerful executives run amuck wasting money in attempts to hold on to power. The expectations of employees are not clearly communicated and  management can be very reactive. I was not given any training on systems and expected to learn them from other employees who were too busy with their own workloads and not interested in helping at all. Very competitive - icky "everyone for themselves" energy. 

I had worked for Warner Music Group/WEA Corp for twenty-two plus (22+) years from June 1988 - December 2010. It was an experience in which I have and will always treasure. I began my career at Warner Bros. Records (Burbank,CA) by taking a position as an mail room clerk. I was granted the opportunity to work in the Production dept. as an assistant to the Mastering Manager, and was promoted to Mastering Manager following the retirement of my then immediate supervisor. I enjoyed the day to day challenge of meeting deadlines, working directly with various departments, and learned first-hand what was necessary to ensure the success of a major music company

Overall, it is a very good company and you can learn a lot from talented peers. However, with the organizational changes made over the past two years, uncertainty reigns every single day. A typical day presents a new challenge because the standards and expectations set by management are unreasonably high, to the point where employees are severely overworked. The hardest part of the job is that they squeeze as much work out of you as possible, but you simply don't know if your role is secure long-term or if tomorrow they will just say 'thanks for everything'

I have an amazing team and a supportive manager. Were it not for that, I’d likely move on. Benefits are minimal and basic (no tuition reimbursement or continuing education support at the corporate level) and the HR team is not employee focused or supportive at all which leads to a culture that, while inclusive, is very shallow. 

Advice to management, listen to employees from all levels and create an environment where they feel supported and comfortable to share their thoughts and ideas. Today’s culture and leadership, at least at the COE HR level, does NOT create a healthy environment for employees. 

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