Paramount reviews

3.4

49% would recommend to a friend

(3,967 total reviews)
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Robert Bakish

42% approve of CEO

26% positive business outlook

Paramount has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 3,967 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Paramount employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Audiovisual y medios de comunicación industry (3.7 stars).

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4K reviews
1.0
Jan 28, 2016

Stay away from this company

Anonymous employee
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Pros

None that come to mind, some good people there but not sure why they are there.

Cons

Just about everything. Terrible leadership, basically know nothings that just pat each other on their backs. I have never worked with so many incompetent, arrogant people.

1.0
Aug 8, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

The brand carries weight on a resume and when networking.

Cons

The brand's popularity makes the company feel that they can underpay and undervalue employees, hence the walkout by Freelance employees. Also if you are black and/or older, beware. Discrimination is abundant, and HR supports corrupt management. While they pimp your ride and bring dances from the 'hood, the people running those shows are white (when I was there), and they promote white interns over qualified black staff. The majority of menial labor is filled with blacks and Hispanics, while Asians and whites are promoted disproportionately.

2.0
Sep 5, 2024

Don't work for free

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Pros

I loved my job, until I I was denied advancement although I was already doing the work. The unnamed person in Workforce Human Resources, had no HR background/experience, started out at a entry level position and zoomed up to EVP in 3-4 years, with apparently no proper training or guidance. This advancement what would normally take 15-20 years with a company this size. Managing people with more experience, knowledge, expertise, aptitude, insight, intellect, skills , and more professionally seasoned than him. As an immature professional he doesn't have the aptitude, sensibility, or humbleness to even sharpen his managerial skills as a young new manager to understand how to best manage his professionally mature direct reports. I am not sure if he is someone's family member or did a lot "special" favors, but he's not qualified for any of the roles to have lightening fast advancement. He is so insecure and incompetent that he says "yes" to all the wrong things, overruling his managers decisions, making them feel useless and disrespected. To top it off, he rejects feedback or input from his team. This unwarranted advancement created a monster of inflated arrogance, making him feel he can tell more qualified people than him, that they were not experienced enough for advancement. The company is unintelligent thinking people should work more above their paid job, to then get advancement. The unnamed HR VP fir HR for supports this nonsense and is ineffective. Get the money and position you want upfront, don't fall in love with the name and the fame. If you have a better opportunity take it, don't stay hoping things will get better.

Cons

unfair practices for people with talent

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