Great company with not so great outlook - Anonymous employee Paramount Employee Review

3.0
12 July 2013
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Lots of friendly, smart people. Most everybody is enthusiastic about their work. Social events with free food and drinks. Beer nights Foosball and pingpong tables, hoops, arcade games. Flexible schedule.

Cons

Pay is not competitive. Bonuses are paid in company's stock. Annual raise is a joke. Turnover in development is quite high due to low compensation. The company is heavily restructuring to comply with CBS corporate demand of returns on their 1.6 B investment. Entire teams are outsourced to EU and Asia. As of about a year ago, questionable choices of technological renovations where budget precedes quality and reliability. Current outlook of the company as an entity is grim.

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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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