Great work-life balance but layoffs and corporate challenges - Senior Software Engineer Paramount Employee Review

4.0
Jul 20, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

- Great work life balance with flexible PTOs. - Great talented people to work with. - Great products to work on. - Decent benefits. - Good compensation.

Cons

- Lots of layoffs happening out of nowhere (I survived 3 layoffs as of now) impacting the work morale. - The end of remote work (a decision from new CEO after merging with Skydance) definitely is not a good news to get. - They are an entertainment company, not a software company. So depending on the project there ins't much room to implement software the right way in the timeframe you have. - It's a huge corporate ecosystem, so expect many layers of interactions and approvals even for simple things to get done. It's also hard to find the right people about legacy systems or even to understand where the data might come from.

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5.0
Jul 2, 2026
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Pros

Fun to work for a company thats put out real work that everybody has seen

Cons

Huge company so there's no relationship to the company itself. Just a thick contract

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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