Good company but culture needs work - Anonymous employee Paramount Employee Review

3.0
Jan 29, 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- beautiful building with great views of the mountains - complimentary drinks and snacks - open environment - food trucks directly downstairs - private building gym (additional fee) - competitive salary and benefits - good work/life balance

Cons

- culture needs work, very cliquish and high school - not everyone are friendly - managers set bad examples of being on their cell phones, excessive chatting, doing personal tasks on company time, facebooking - lack of communication between teams/dept leading to wasted time and delays - only offers inflation raises - contract employees are often excluded in events creating a divide between staff and contractors - not a lot of room for growth

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Paramount Response
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Thanks for your post! I am disappointed to hear that you didn’t have the best experience working with managers and teams in the office. We recognize that having a supportive & qualified manager is vital to an employee’s personal growth and work life satisfaction and we are always looking ot provide in office opportunities for employees to bond and get to know each other. But, in regards to contractor participation in office events. Although we fully appreciate and love having our contractors as part of the team, from a legal perspective, contractors are not allowed to attend many events and office activities. This is a legal requirement from the government that we are required to adhere to.

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Cons

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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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