Terrible Experience, Would Not Recommend - Designer Paramount Employee Review

1.0
Oct 31, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

- The designers I worked with were some of the best I've ever seen. Grateful to have worked with just talented people.

Cons

- Initial onboarding process was nonexistent. Designers are thrown into the lion’s den without any assistance and are expected to learn workflow and process without being taught. - Pay “adjustment” was completely disrespectful. Personally worked on a different team within ViacomCBS previously and was paid below industry standards. After several months, pay was adjusted, but only a few thousand dollars more - still beneath industry standards. Jobs with the same title pay on average around 30k more than what I was getting paid while at ViacomCBS. - Company and corporate politics made for poor upper management; there was absolutely no respect or appreciation for employees below management. - Management was sloppy and passive aggressive. Oftentimes will micromanage projects, even when said projects were already approved by leads and stakeholders. - Work/Life balance was essentially nonexistent across the board. Designers were expected to work overtime as well as weekends. Management was unapologetic, especially to those working in different timezones. - Management would also constantly talk about change and improvement but do nothing - all talk and no action.

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Cons

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2.0
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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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