Warner Music Group Employee Reviews & Ratings

Workplace politics to a disheartening degree, more cutthroat the higher up the food chain you go. A glass ceiling still exists for “certain” people based on factors having nothing to do with work performance. Average work day averages 9-15 hours with quickly capped overtime.

Communication can be lacking at times.

Long hours Not enough events to plan Low budget Not enough marketing materials

not much to say very few cons

Salary is the lowest out of the 3 majors Progress is incredibly slow and unclear. We have AMPS which are meant to track our progress, but not taken seriously by management. It seems the only way to be promoted is to have a job offer from another label. Every year the gender pay gap is addressed in our company wide conference, yet nothing has been done. We need more women and WOC in senior roles! Can be very cliquey - you can feel left out if you’re not deemed ‘cool’ Lots of people left out of award shows/events who find out on the day - not well communicated if you're not going

Lack of process and procedure starting from task request to project implementation. Lots of management change which causing uncertainty and delay in decision making Pace of work is pretty slow

Medium sized organisation, difficult to define a career path

The salaries are not consistent

Overwork and low pay for the amount of work you have to put in.

My experience was very, very negative, the job description clearly stated that $ was an hourly rate and $$ was an overtime rate, it was pretty clear that I would have to work longer than 8 hours a day. The second manager saw an overtime claim she said to never do it again, even if I had to stay way past 8 hours including working through lunch. Managers would fairly openly talk about the interviews they would have for the permanent replacement for the position. The department consists of 3 women, down from 5, and they don't seem to be particularly open to changing that at any point. Was notified by a smiling manager that today may or may not be the last day of the contract and later was notified over the email that it was the last day indeed. Finally constant conversations about restaurants and the burning desire to get married.

career progression is hard, as promotions dont come easy and a lot of side movement is required. salary isn't as competitive as others in the industry

Not a lot of advancement opportunities. Compensation and benefits could be a little better.

- Sometimes heavy workload - I don’t see many disadvantages

Outsourced too many services and lost focus

Music is a narrow field to work in because it's not easy to change career later.

Ethnic people not valued and HR processes are shambolic. HR are white women from UK country sides so they’re very out of touch with scene plus they make a lot of mistakes . 99 per cent of management are white and so there’s no diversity here - sorry ! They don’t look like they’re improving things as it’s only face value.

None that I could remember

Poor work / life balance. Many roles are high pressure and paid lower in comparison to other industries and even rival major labels. Office space is struggling to accommodate the number of employees

None that I can think of.

- No work-life balance. - The office is cluttered and crowded with awards, merchandise and vinyls. - Directors and managers have it easier and pile all the work onto lower status employees. - Immature management that uses company expenses on margaritas and alcohol at lunch time or having the whole team to work at the pub. - Due to the constant workload and no resources, managers refused the approval of holiday. - Inequality between departments for concert and festival tickets. - No PROGRESSION at all. The turnover rate is high with many people leaving each month due to receiving offers from other places. - Sexual harassment and phishing hacks is very much alive and well.

1) Bullying is an accepted practice from New York management. 2) Top level UK management literally get a velvet rope and use it to designate themselves a 'VIP' area at work parties. Truly the most egotistical thing I've ever seen and really summed up their attitudes towards employees. 3) Constantly told that low pay is due to the industry, but forget that we can see the annual accounts and how well the company is doing (and how well management reward themselves). 4) Unequal treatment between departments for perks (records, tickets, invites to awards).

Operates with a sense of elite-ism. Management expects you to feel like it is a privilege to work there. Extremely political - who you know is everything. Innovation and problem solving are not valued. YES men/women are rewarded. Individuality is discouraged (ironic since the music biz is considered a creative industry). Diversity and inclusion are merely fancy words.

Not sure there are many cons. Maybe some career growth within department would be nice.

Only downside was working with label on west coast so dealing with time difference.

The salary is a bit low however there are regular pay reviews and the pros outweigh the cons. Definitely a fun place to work and advance your career.

I wish they had given us some sort of compensation for the traveling I had to do.

Politics and lack of collaboration.

I don t find any cons

End around 6:30-7PM, so don't get home until 8.

Licensing/Royalties department is like a black hole. No respect from company, totally disregarded as bottom of the barrel workers. Salaries remained stagnant for years. Senior Management in this department is completely unqualified. Computer systems are outdated and inefficient.

After the acquisition by Access, there was a battle for the identity and strategic direction of the company. Most smart and successful people left, and the new leadership failed to define and clearly articulate the new direction.

Lack of collaboration among departments. Internal communication is poor. SVPs and department heads are territorial and do not inform mid and junior team members of company strategic direction

The pay was minimum wage but the perks made up for it (free concert tickets, great contacts, mileage and expenses)

- Pay is lower than most would like - Work is repetitive - No real room for advancement - Poor communication from Corporate - No real focus on company objectives - My Director is very encouraging and supportive of my career goals, but other than that, there is no motivation to excel

1. IT is top down led so there is ad hoc restructuring every couple of years which means you never know when you or your colleague will be culled 2. There is no training for IT and shared services and it does not matter if you self-learn or upskill, if you are on the chopping block because someone in corporate decided that you will be chopped. Previous performance does not count 3. Generally speaking no career growth.

I am part of a Corporate function, which in a music company is really the bottom of the barrel in terms of status. This makes for a lot of tension, back-stabbing and general mayhem that does not get addressed by senior leaders. In fact, it seems to be encouraged.

Redundancies in 2025 handled very poorly

-Clique-y and unwelcoming environment -HR were too busy to notice or act on issues - Some unprofessional management bullying and criticising younger staff even on personal issues. Overstepping boundaries, mean and inappropriate behaviour was labeled as 'ah yes, he is weird' or 'yeah goodluck working with him, you're gonna need it' by other staff but nothing was done about it. Other staff clearly knew about horrible behaviour (some warning me from day one) but the environment doesn't reward honesty or calling this out in a productive and polite way so staff don't speak to HR or senior management about it. Your only self respecting option is to leave and work elsewhere. -Old boys club vibe is still prevalant. It is not a positive environment for a young woman to function and grow in. - Seems to be a high turnover of young staff

understaffed departments that are essentially to the growth of the company

the departments can get isolated easily, scarce promotions opportunities

Low salary, young staff, high turnover

once new CEO from Youtube come, they turn Warner into Google. hire Google ex staff and get rid of staff from other region outside UK and US

You are a small fish in a big sea

Low pay and long working hours

Pay career growth culture during restructuring

Promotions are few and far between.

Not the best for pay or progression

Hard to move up here

Benefits are a bit stingy They laid off my entire team in replace of AI

Bad executive hires & continuous rounds of layoffs are killing the culture here. They are trying to run it as a tech company which is crushing creativity.