Toxic Dinosaur Swamp - Anonymous employee Paramount Employee Review

2.0
6 Aug 2021
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Good benefits for a media company although it's not up to par with tech firms. Fun and stability if you're at an earlier stage in your career. Lot of exposure to different areas of the industry with some flexibility to move around within the company.

Cons

Alpha-type, aggressive, political senior management. Regular layoffs and reorgs. A culture of fear and an emphasis on appearances or surface-level, short-term wins. Desperately trying to stay relevant but the content and consumer-facing strategies and tactics are dated and rely heavily on variations of past successes. As mentioned in the Pros section, ViacomCBS is a great place to start your career, but I highly recommend you move on after 2-3 years as you'll soon start working more closely with senior management and become trapped in the toxic environment that they create. If you want to stay in media, NBCUniversal and Disney are known as better workplaces. ViacomCBS is recognized at being low on the list.

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Cons

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Pros

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Cons

- CEO / Culture post Skydance merger: I never thought I would ever be in a position where I would want to leave a company because of the people. But that is starting to become the case. ELT/SLT does not care about the culture, hard workers, or rewarding loyalty. They will treat you like a number because the only thing anyone cares about (and its so apparent more than ever) is the bottom line. - Compensation and values - working for Viacom and CBS / ViacomCBS / Paramount before Skydance actually felt like it meant something. Now, no one knows if we're even valued and more often than not we're made to feel like every day of our lives here we have to prove our value over and over again. You never genuinely feel safe or comfortable here because there's going to be layoffs every 6 months. Other tech companies will give better compensation - Paramount needs to up their game if they don't want to continue losing their best talent. - You're literally just a number here. The company does not reward hard work or loyalty so it's best to just watch your own back because no one will have it here. They have let go of the best leaders that I've ever come across and have kept toxic egos only because they know how to play the toxic game that working here has become

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