Huge company, room for internal growth - Anonymous employee Paramount Employee Review

2.0
Jan 3, 2012
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

If you want to jump between companies and departments within MTV Networks, HR will help you with the transition. Because MTVN is a huge company, you'll have opportunity for growth in a lot of different places. Benefits (health, dental, vision, insurance, time off) are great.

Cons

Huge, faceless corporation whose only real agenda is to make money off ad sales and hold onto the dying empire that is TV entertainment. Focus on digital expansion is growing, but not even close to where it should be considering how much of the TV audience is moving into that space. There are too many rules and political motives that determine who gets a raise and when. Pay is generally on the low end of the spectrum. Raises are infrequent and hard to get approval for. Promotions are only given if a position is open, and never doled out based solely on talent. Even if you fight for a raise or threaten to leave, there are too many loopholes and approvals to go through for your manager to do anything about it.

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5.0
Apr 13, 2026
Anonymous contractor
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Pros

One of the best companies in media I’ve ever worked for. Gave me great experience and tokens for a brighter future.

Cons

Leaving and going away fast

2.0
Jun 11, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

- 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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