Great potential, poor reality - Anonymous employee Paramount Employee Review

3.0
Jan 21, 2019
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Brands are potentially exciting to work for, the atmosphere is very relaxed, colleagues are good to work with and there is no competition at mid level positions

Cons

Brands are potentially exciting but there is no strategy to push them to grow. No competition is due to the fact that very few people get promoted. If you get promoted, it is just formally: they don’t upgrade your tasks and you stay stuck in a machine that is old and with always the same, old management. Constantly reorganizing, the management team(s) do not know where they are going, there is no long range plan and no competent people in key roles. It is all about politics, sometimes there is no sense in what they do or ask you to do.

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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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