Paramount reviews

3.4

49% would recommend to a friend

(3,974 total reviews)
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Robert Bakish

42% approve of CEO

25% positive business outlook

Paramount has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 3,974 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
2.0
Aug 15, 2014

Falling and Falling Fast

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Great brands to work on and the people hands down make the company. The atmosphere is more relaxed than most corporate companies.

Cons

Low paying, management heavy company lacking vision. Management blows smoke about things improving and people getting promoted but that never happens. This once amazing company has been bogged down by politics instead of focusing on the great brands and building up the true hardworking people.

4.0
Aug 14, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

CNET was an amazing company to work at. Very social. Full of smart, driven people that loved building cool sites with industry respected editorial. With the right manager, hard work was rewarded with pay raises or promotions.

Cons

Since CBS purchased the company they challenged everything from the enjoyable social atmosphere to personal benefits to farming out technical teams out of san francisco. Used to be fun. Now it's just work. CNET/CBS pays right at or slightly below industry standard. The lower salary used to be balanced by better benefits but those have been reduced.

4.0
Aug 12, 2014

Good Work/Life Balance

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

They are very considerate about work/life balance. Offer good amount of time off and during the holidays they give a few days extra so people can spend with their families. They have many programs available to employees to help with their personal life Great perks.

Cons

It's very consuming. Hard to use all of the perks you get when you are flooded with so much work. Location of their main buildings is just awful. In the heart of time square. Really rough to get in and out of the buildings. The culture is very progressive but often time you will run into people/departments who are just taking up things so they will not be fired/let go. While there are a lot of opportunities for advancement you have to seek them out. These are not offered to everyone and depending on who you report to, you may not even be aware that these opportunities exist! They often hire employees with higher titles so they don't have to pay them overtime. They often create titles because they do not know how to streamline their staff and create a system where you hire people at a certain level and work to develop them to move up or to different places in the company. HR is not very involved in day to day stuff and not really aware of half of the things happening in their perspective departments. If you apply to a position and are called for an interview there, don't expect an email or phone call letting you know if you did not get the position. They will not let you know and you could be waiting forever even if you thought it went very well. It's very disheartening that they do not follow up with you not even out of courtesy.

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