Work Hard, But Don't Burn Yourself Out - Production Paramount Employee Review

3.0
13 Dec 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Smart, dedicated employees who strive to deliver a good product. Sense of pride and accomplishment in your team's work. Constant desire by the company to improve and make the platform better. While office atmosphere was cliquey at times, everyone got along well inside and outside of the office. Not many places can say that.

Cons

Being short-staffed led to extremely long hours for employees. You were usually scheduled two off-days a week, but oftentimes were called into the office on at least one of them. If you were unavailable or couldn't cover, it would count against you. Some flare-ups from employees due to the nature of the job. "Cooler heads prevail" is not a popular expression here. A lot of direction for day-to-day projects were at the whim of one person, and often changed on a dime. Led to occasional confusion accomplishing tasks. While some people have been with the company for years, there was a lot of turnover as well, for a variety of reasons.

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Pros

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Cons

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Pros

- Benefits - At the Digital Specialist, Account Manager, and Account Executive level the people are mostly incredible to work with internally - Most AEs are able to have their own offices, which helps significantly to drown out the noise of senior management

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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