Focus on quality content makes CBS a good company - Senior Product Manager Paramount Employee Review

4.0
13 May 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

CBS and CBS Interactive really do focus on creating great quality content. While the tech, design, product and sales teams are treated very well and are key collaborators, CBS is different because of the quality content produced by the journalists at CNET, GameSpot and Chow. But CBS does not slack on innovation. Fantasy football on CBS Sports is well worth paying for even with so many free alternatives. Metacritic's ratings aggregation algorithm really helps to identify quality. And CBS has developed it's own ad serving and BI systems that rival DFP and Omniture but enable CBS to have much greater control over advertising and customer insights.

Cons

Change is a constant at CBS Interactive. Because the company is re-organized every 6 - 9 months, long term veterans of the company - and there are many with 10+ year tenures - are inured to shuffles. This means that all of the re-orgs create uncertainty in the short term, but affect minimal long term change.

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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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