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3.4

48% would recommend to a friend

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Robert Bakish

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24% positive business outlook

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4.0
Dec 28, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

•Decent Pay and Benefits. •Good relationships with customers and some camaraderie with coworkers •Reasonable work flow (not too many tickets and projects managed on a case by case basis) •Reasonable policies set in place to manage user behavior/workflow in enterprise environment

Cons

•Middle Management contentious with staff •immediate supervisor does not escalate problems, or "have your back" in customer satisfaction situations •Management unaware/unappreciative of individual worker skill sets: starting in 2009, many skilled IT workers were laid off, while many lackluster, or problem employees were retained; this one stymied me.

2.0
Dec 9, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

As one person best puts it, it's one of the few places were you "clock in late and clock out early". The work environment tends to be on the flexible side in terms of time. To further compensate for the low pay, CBS has a lot of free food and free beer events. The catering is typically really great.

Cons

The best engineers have left a long time ago. Any good engineers tend not to stay. It's very hard to keep anyone when compensation is horrible. This a common joke and complaint at engineering. Consequently there is a continual tech brain drain. The people aren't great and culture is horrible. There is a lot of politics even at the lower levels. All people seem to care about is getting promoted based on tenure and not on skill or merit. I'm guessing this is because they want higher pay. If they were smart, they would figure out that the best way to get a pay raise is by going elsewhere. Upper management is retarded. What makes it worse is that they are mostly based in New York. SF really has no say in anything, which makes sense given the next item. The long term plan is to phase out the SF office in favor of lower cost areas like Oregon and Kentucky. It's a lot like a higher form of McDonalds or fast food restaurant. It's a decent place to start your career if you're from a lower tier school since the CBS brand is very well known. However due to compensation it's a revolving door with a lot of people both coming in and leaving.

1.0
Dec 2, 2012

Bureaucratic and uninspiring

Anonymous employee
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Pros

- Being able to say you work at MTV - Flexible work hours and super light work load frees up a lot of time to work on your own side projects. - Obnoxious corporate spending meant attending expensive conferences was no problem.

Cons

- Its bureaucratic structure bred a culture of terrible work ethic at every level. No one produces any actual work other than meeting agendas and 'To Do' lists. - Uninspiring projects and uninspiring leaders. - "Permalancing" - terrible pay, unpaid holidays, no benefits, tax violations.

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