4.0
Aug 21, 2008
Former employee
New York, NY
Recommend
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Pros
Working at MTV is like earning experience in dog years - and not just because they work you like a dog. You really get put out there, sink or swim often times, and that experience within a major media conglomerate such as VIACOM will serve you well in your next career moves. On a whole, the people here are amazing personally, very talented professionally. MTVN seemed to really worked to hire robust groups of talent internally as opposed to outsourcing. A lot of partying. whoo-hoo.
Cons
Under compensation. Look, while I don't have proof, I'm nearly certain that there is an HR formula that lobs off around 15% salary for Director and below. You have to be able to balance the experience, with the lack of $$$...