Australian Communications and Media Authority Reviews
Based on 7 surveyed graduates working at Australian Communications and Media Authority. Read on to get an insider’s view on life as a graduate.
3.6
Based on 7 reviews
Pros & Cons
Supportive and friendly environment.
Office location, stable job, decent pay and leave allowances, grad program offers multiple rotations allowing you to see the whole organisation and build experience. Work-life balance is also good, rarely have to work longer than a 9-5 day.
Agency has a positive culture and is supportive of graduates, making an effort to involve them in the agency and have a say.
Decent work/life balance with a friendly and supportive atmosphere
The warmth of welcomes received when joining the ACMA initially, and the ability to be part of the various ongoing projects during my graduate year.
Flexible working arrangements, supportive team
People are polite and kind to each other. There is generally an endeavor by employees to achieve a high work standard which is good to be part of.
Bureaucracy can often make it hard to work and progress.
Work is not very exciting, top-down organisational structure that is risk-averse in some areas, few opportunities for career progression past a certain level.
IT is heavily restricted and so it is difficult to introduce new software and ways of doing things to innovate.
Red tape, bureaucracy, mundane work
What Insiders Say
6.6
Career Prospects
6.6
Career Prospects
If there's a position open, you can apply online and follow the same process and see how it goes. There's a lot of support to develop the skills you need to progress, and in the case of a promotion opportunity to develop a position description with the manager to guide where your career goes.
Does about as much as can be done for a government agency. Progressive minded, for example commissioning our graduate report to be on the agency's culture as a regulator, and NAIDOC events but we can't do so much on activism as we are government.
Office culture is fine, the demographic of the office is quite old though. The structure is hierarchical and not flat at all (it is a government organisation), some socialising occurs with other graduates.
There's a lot of interesting work to be done, and a variety of tasks that have a meaningful impact. Bureaucracy and organisational process can make things a bit painful and arduous at times.
Managers and senior leadership are brilliant. Accessible, encouraging, forthcoming with feedback, transparent, genuine. They're great. Some of the assistant managers (EL1) are a little bit micromanage-y but anyone above that seems pretty brilliant.
Pay is really good for just out of uni. But a change this year means the new graduates are getting paid more than those who just finished their graduate year.