The pay is often less than comparable jobs in other companies, which is kind of a drag. The raises and bonuses, at least in my sector of the company, are laughable. The maximum raise in my dept is 4% per year, prorated depending on if you've been there the whole year or not. And bonus is about 5%, also prorated, and also taxed at a crazy high rate. Most people agree that to start earning more money, you have to leave MTV. This leads to relatively high turnover around here. A year or two is a standard stay at MTV. It's not the kind of place where you can just go talk to your boss and say "I've been doing well, I'd like a raise." Welcome to the bureacracy.
Also, bad behavior from employees is often tolerated at an infuriating level. Apparently it is difficult to fire people from a company this big, but it's still mind blowing the way some bosses allow inappropriate, unprofessional behavior, without adequate consequences.
Supposedly there is no glass ceiling here, however, in certain pockets of the company (music supervision), there is a definite glass ceiling. The men consistently fail upwards while the women have to work twice or three times as hard to advance, and even then, they do not always advance.
Often, the bureaucracy of working in a company this big gets annoying, and I wish we had an ombudsman. At least as far as I've experienced, there isn't too much of a commitment to excellence around here--a lot of people are just kind of cruisin'. It's fun for a bit, but gets old when things that should take days end up taking weeks or months.
