Don't work here if you want to be a real journalist - Correspondent Thomson Reuters Employee Review

Where to start.. You will work in shifts, 9 hours a day. It could be from 3 to 12 pm, 8pm to 4am or from 11pm to 7am. Say goodbye to evenings or any sort of a routine. The Bangalore office is basically a back office to the US and UK. As a "reporter" your main job will be to write up press releases issued by corporations. The learning curve is engaging to a point if you like to be in financial journalism. After that it's dull routine work that will eat at you slowly if you've ever wanted an intellectually engaging career in journalism. You will see minimal growth in the kind of stories you get to do because most of the interesting reporting is done by folks in the U.S. The people in Bangalore do the grunt work, the dull work, the basic thankless work for investor clients for a salary that's just about enough to cover basic expenses. Stay away if you can but take this job if you crave predictability and low stress above any sort of intellectual fulfillment or the desire to do more meaty stories and build sources. By the third, fourth quarter of earnings, as you stare into the abyss of the same old same old, I guarantee you will regret it