Are the Perks Worth the Burnout? - Anonymous employee Paramount Employee Review

2.0
May 30, 2023
Anonymous employee
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Pros

- Decent pay - Fun perks - Lots of ERGs and mental health initiatives (which are only effective if your team’s leadership subscribes to them; not all do) - Telling people you work at Paramount

Cons

- My team is severely under-resourced, despite a constantly growing workload, meaning that VPs and Senior Directors are doing the day-to-day work of managers and coordinators. Some people work 80-100 hours per week. - Though my individual team is tiny, all the various departments that touch a project could amount to over 100 stakeholders on a single project. Knowing who’s who is a daunting task. - Few or no processes in place to make the work efficient or streamlined - Little-to-know value is placed on my specific discipline. Leadership has offered no clear vision for the team or my specific role.

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Cons

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- 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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