Working at Viacom - Anonymous employee Paramount Employee Review

3.0
Feb 1, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

There are a number of pros in working for a large, multinational media corporation. They offer a competitive salary, benefits and holiday package. There are opportunities to travel and to work in different countries. UK HQ is in Camden, which is a vibrant and interesting place to work. The office is relaxed and informal and there are opportunities to work flexible hours, as long as the role and the business can support this.

Cons

As it's a large company it is easy to be swallowed up by the machine and you have to work hard to make achievements stand out. Viacom could learn something from the likes of Google, Twitter etc when it comes to appreciating staff and focussing on values and culture as much as on the business and the bottom line.

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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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