Paramount reviews

3.4

49% would recommend to a friend

(3,973 total reviews)
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42% approve of CEO

25% positive business outlook

Paramount has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 3,973 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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4.0
Jul 11, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

Great people, great environment, interesting or at least not-boring content, opportunity for lots of responsibility, a great place for creative minds, like production boot camp. You will not find such a high concentration of co-workers so fun and creative anywhere else. MTV Holiday Party is epic. There is a large social scene at MTV and your co-workers will become your life. Stay 3 or 4 years and you'll probably wanna get out... Though it was probably the most fun 3 or 4 years of your life. Oh, the stories you'll tell.

Cons

Long hours, often incompetent management, almost zero benefits for permalancers, while you may be friends with everybody you have the feeling of being replaceable at all times and do not feel valued as an employee, often trivial content without much interest shown towards more substantial programming, poor job security, never enough staff, sometimes there are obnoxious co-workers who think they are still in a frathouse or going to end up famous on TV, unwilling to put more money towards the production side versus the business departments. budgetcuts/downsizing all the time... why jump on board a sinking ship? on the production side anyway.

3.0
Jun 30, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

It is a hip, fast paced environment that is truly run by the inmates. Employees are king and while management is doing its best to run the company into the ground people still love working there. The work life balance is great there and they really take into account that we are all people. The perks are also great - free access to all the shows and tvs in the offices. They work hard to make people glad to work there and at least until recent times the morale was fantastic as a result. I think it is still a great place to work but needs some help.

Cons

Like I said, I think that the senior folks have been there too long and need to turn over...the company could do much more with what it has and with the employee dedication to the success. They are not great communicators and the digital areas are a great example - when I worked there there were multiple digital strategies and people working, sometimes at cross purposes. Getting everyone on the same page would help but in protecting the individual brands the management doesn't want any kind of centralized control. MTVN operates like multiple separate businesses versus one company, which makes any centralized roles challenging.

2.0
Jun 11, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

- Benefits - At the Digital Specialist, Account Manager, and Account Executive level the people are mostly incredible to work with internally - Most AEs are able to have their own offices, which helps significantly to drown out the noise of senior management

Cons

- CEO / Culture post Skydance merger: I never thought I would ever be in a position where I would want to leave a company because of the people. But that is starting to become the case. ELT/SLT does not care about the culture, hard workers, or rewarding loyalty. They will treat you like a number because the only thing anyone cares about (and its so apparent more than ever) is the bottom line. - Compensation and values - working for Viacom and CBS / ViacomCBS / Paramount before Skydance actually felt like it meant something. Now, no one knows if we're even valued and more often than not we're made to feel like every day of our lives here we have to prove our value over and over again. You never genuinely feel safe or comfortable here because there's going to be layoffs every 6 months. Other tech companies will give better compensation - Paramount needs to up their game if they don't want to continue losing their best talent. - You're literally just a number here. The company does not reward hard work or loyalty so it's best to just watch your own back because no one will have it here. They have let go of the best leaders that I've ever come across and have kept toxic egos only because they know how to play the toxic game that working here has become

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