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      Paramount reviews

      3.4

      48% would recommend to a friend

      (3,975 total reviews)
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      Robert Bakish

      42% approve of CEO

      24% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      3.6

      Work/Life balance

      3.5

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.3

      Culture & values

      3.3

      Compensation and benefits

      2.9

      Senior management

      2.9

      Career opportunities

      Paramount has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 3,975 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Paramount employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Media & Communication industry (3.7 stars).

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      Reviews by job title

      4K reviews
      3.0
      Jul 12, 2008

      If freedom in your workplace environment is whats impotant to you, it'd be hard to find better.

      Project manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      The environment. The people you meet and work with. Very laid back atmosphere. Wear whatever you want. Very accepting of differences in lifestyles, personalities, race, gender, sexual preference. If you'd like to skateboard down the hallway, thats fine. Lots of playfulness, joking & pranks. Coworkers become extended family. Its full of brillliant and creative people.

      Cons

      Salary. Being overworked. Having to fight for promotion & recognition. Too many projects results in lack of communication. People take business personally. Did I mention Salary?

      4.0
      Jul 11, 2008

      Like being in college... So much fun, but by the end you just want to get out, get paid and grow up.

      Show producer, segment producer, dv shooter
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Great people, great environment, interesting or at least not-boring content, opportunity for lots of responsibility, a great place for creative minds, like production boot camp. You will not find such a high concentration of co-workers so fun and creative anywhere else. MTV Holiday Party is epic. There is a large social scene at MTV and your co-workers will become your life. Stay 3 or 4 years and you'll probably wanna get out... Though it was probably the most fun 3 or 4 years of your life. Oh, the stories you'll tell.

      Cons

      Long hours, often incompetent management, almost zero benefits for permalancers, while you may be friends with everybody you have the feeling of being replaceable at all times and do not feel valued as an employee, often trivial content without much interest shown towards more substantial programming, poor job security, never enough staff, sometimes there are obnoxious co-workers who think they are still in a frathouse or going to end up famous on TV, unwilling to put more money towards the production side versus the business departments. budgetcuts/downsizing all the time... why jump on board a sinking ship? on the production side anyway.

      5.0
      Jul 11, 2008

      I guess every company has it's pros and cons...

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      It's very casual, comfortable, and laid back environment. They provide many opportunities to network. Pretty much only permanent staff receive good benefits: healthcare, 401k, tuition reimbursement, etc.

      Cons

      They do not care about their freelancers and many are very underpaid. They would rather spend their money on stupid petty things, such as parties and paying for EVERYTHING for rising nobody-celebrities, than on compensating their employees. A perfect example: almost taking away our healthcare benefits to switch to a HORRIBLE "healthcare plan." Viacom also do not care much about the MTV Store employees. They get paid very little with no benefits, meanwhile working very hard and sometimes getting out past 2am with no car service back home. College tuition reimbursement may be a pain.

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