Paramount reviews

Workload, responsibilities, compensation. Viacom is notoriously cheap in many ways and gratuitously frivolous in others. Pay scales are all over the place. People in non-management positions are severely underpaid (as in 20%-40% below going rate) while management all make six-figure incomes. Good, loyal, hard workers are never rewarded. Cronyism rules there. It's not about what you know, it's who you know.

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.