long hours, low pay... but okay. - Production Assistant Paramount Employee Review

4.0
Sep 24, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

It's a fun place to work - the people who work there are great and young-ish. The people are generally nice and work hard at what they do. The work can also be exciting and there is rarely a dull moment. Also, there can be opportunities to go to events, concerts, etc depending on the project.

Cons

The pay is low, the hours are long. The benefits (health,etc) are awful. Without a trust fund it is hard to sustain a decent standard of living on the wages/ salary in the city. Be prepared to lose your social life outside of work. Getting promoted to a "staff" position seems tedious and difficult to do. Many people (myself included) leave because of that.

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Pros

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Cons

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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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