Are the Perks Worth the Burnout? - Anonymous employee Paramount Employee Review

2.0
30 May 2023
Anonymous employee
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Pros

- Decent pay - Fun perks - Lots of ERGs and mental health initiatives (which are only effective if your team’s leadership subscribes to them; not all do) - Telling people you work at Paramount

Cons

- My team is severely under-resourced, despite a constantly growing workload, meaning that VPs and Senior Directors are doing the day-to-day work of managers and coordinators. Some people work 80-100 hours per week. - Though my individual team is tiny, all the various departments that touch a project could amount to over 100 stakeholders on a single project. Knowing who’s who is a daunting task. - Few or no processes in place to make the work efficient or streamlined - Little-to-know value is placed on my specific discipline. Leadership has offered no clear vision for the team or my specific role.

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1.0
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Pros

People who were at Paramount before the Skydance merger remain talented and amazing people.

Cons

The post-Skydance merger Paramount is an aimless corporate with zero resources, and respect for existing employees. Senior management are coming from Disney, and they’re hiring all their previous Disney colleagues, while laying off employees that have been at Paramount through ages. There has also been a shift in demographics where White men control the power. It’s disheartening to see amazing legacy leadership get demoted and sidelined in favor of incoming White male leaders from Disney. The new senior management will say things like, “We want to invest in people that will stay with us and grow,” yet layoff an entire division that have kept this company running through all the transitions. The disrespect is just ridiculous.

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