Home Shopping Network Employee Job Reviews in the United States

"HSN is not a bad place to begin your career. I would work for them again."

"Regrettable. HSN is a good, but misguided company."

"Overall good company, but is top heavy with leaders and not enough doers."

What do you like about working at Home Shopping Network?

"The pace of a multi-channel company like HSN is thrilling."

What don't you like about working at Home Shopping Network?

"Training and development of new hires is severly lacking."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Improve overall company performance by taking more of an effort in making sure your employees are treated fairly."

"HSN has one of the most successful eCom sites on the web. I learned a great deal at this company."

What do you like about working at Home Shopping Network?

"It is based around live 24 hour television, which in itself is a very exciting business. You have to be prepared for the pace, which I found stimulating and challenging."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"A great company overall, the pace / pressure is not for everyone. Bring your A game and clearly outline work resposibilities prior to assuming role so you have a clear expectation of job demands."

What don't you like about working at Home Shopping Network?

"Work / life balance is difficult to achieve in a leadership role. I was on call 24 hours a day and that can be a challenge for anyone in any role."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Keep a close eye for total hours worked by management and understand that there is a dimishing level of return if leaders are overworked or burnt out."

"An amazing oppurtunity working for my first non-government company"

What do you like about working at Home Shopping Network?

"Constant work. Never a dull moment and you never know who you will meet in the parking lot. Great place to work."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Prepare and be professional Mr. White can see through BS."

What don't you like about working at Home Shopping Network?

"Great people and you opportunity to grow and learn are never ending."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Open a studio in Ohio."

"If I could go back to work there, I would in a heartbeat!"

What do you like about working at Home Shopping Network?

"All employees, no matter what department, were emboldened with the motto continuous improvement.. It was exciting to be a part of an organization that was continuously focused on improving all aspects of the business, whether it was process improvement, customer-focused sales initiatives, redundancy reduction, or advancing technical innovations that allowed for the above. Within the IT division, we were given opportunities to increase our technical expertise, including paid training and cross-application learning."

What don't you like about working at Home Shopping Network?

"It was a very top-heavy organization. I had more managers than co-workers at times.Management never publicly recognized individual/group achievements, but was quick to criticize when things didn't go as planned."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"It makes more sense to allow developers and their project planners to come up with time estimates for projects, than to have upper management 'throw a dart at a calendar' and dictate when a project must be completed by. Understandably, there are times when the calendar must dictate the expediency of a project, such as a go-live implementation that affects numerous internal or external systems, but there were also projects that were planned based on a budget before analysis was even performed."

"Demanding place to work. You will learn a lot however on the job"

What do you like about working at Home Shopping Network?

"The on-th-job experience. You learn web, broadcast, merchantdising all under one roof"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"A very demanding place to work. A lot is expected of you working there. Do not interview if you are not up to the biz model of seeing products 24/7, 365 days a year"

What don't you like about working at Home Shopping Network?

"The demands on a small staff."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Obtain more up-to-date tools to make work-life better. Create more effecient processes to help eleviate bottlenecks."

"Complex"

What do you like about working at Home Shopping Network?

"Fast Paced"

What don't you like about working at Home Shopping Network?

"Hard to balance professional & personal life"

"Great opportunity for advancement and a can-do atmosphere!"

What do you like about working at Home Shopping Network?

"the people that I team up surrounding me."

What don't you like about working at Home Shopping Network?

"working extra long hours not being able to with family."