Pros
Good place to get your feet wet in the internet/new media industry at a mature, well-established company CBS Interactive is small enough (~2000 worldwide) to be influential at the manager or higher level and to move up if aggressive Ideal San Francisco location, close to variety of transportation options and restaurants/bar/stores Great, fun folks to work with Good work/life balance Monthly company happy hours with free beer, wine, and food Ping pong table, arcade games, shuffleboard Company break room with discounted Peet's coffee Paid shutdown between Christmas Eve and New Year's usually for most employees BUT in 2012 NYE was a work day (not sure if they may cut back on this in the future)
Kontras
A lot of folks punch in and out each day and are not necessarily passionate about their jobs Shadow/sniper-like layoffs in the past year: small groups have been laid off here and there in the past year, replacements not always hired for those who leave. As a result, various teams feel under-resourced and overwhelmed. HR recruiting team is also under-resourced and recruiting tools are out of date to get the best candidates in the door Products and sites still feel out of date despite the fact that product is purported to be top of the management team's agenda (e.g., Fantasy sports, CBS.com video player, lack of personalization on CNET) Revenue and site growth is not as robust as other similar internet companies CBSi is only a small percentage of CBS Corp's overall revenue so has little influence on the CBS Corp overall CBS Corporate is old and stodgy (pdf newsletters are emailed out, corporate benefits and expense form sites are extremely out of date) Very little is keeping the most talented folks from leaving; benefits are not on par with other internet companies in the area Undermarket salary unless they try to match a competing job offer Significant salary increases only come with promotions