Review of only the Amsterdam office, I have no experience with the other offices - Anonymous employee Paramount Employee Review

2.0
9 Mar 2019
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

-relaxed, casual environment -flexible working hours -good Xmas party

Cons

-lowest salary of the industry in town, often they employ people straight off the boat who are thankful to be given a chance, not realising they're worth a lot more. The company makes sure you know you're expandable and so rather than giving you a raise for hard work and exceptional efforts, they will hire the next person, which is cheaper. -other than the Mary Gober, no formal training -nowhere to progress unless you're Dutch, even the senior VP said so in his 1 on 1 meetings, in so many words -since relocating a lot of departments to Poland, the Amsterdam office's spirits have hit rock bottom -some of the managers started out working in the department they're now managing, and have been made managers because they just stuck it out for so long, they don't have any people managing skills or training. -working environment can sometimes feel like more like a high school than a corporation

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Cons

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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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