A technology savvy company that has become mediocre - Anonymous employee Paramount Employee Review

2.0
Jun 19, 2015
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Stable company with good benefits and still some good people remaining.

Cons

Technology initiatives mostly squashed in favor of off the shelf products. Many high paid engineers with solid experience and loyalty to the company forced out via layoffs or their projects being shut down. Not too much interesting work remaining except your basic web development with php. Used to develop and open source products like solr and maintain one of the most cutting edge ad serving platforms in the business. Now struggling to have a basic cms working properly. No process to speak of - disorganized mish mash of meetings that is called agile

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