Disney Consumer Products Reviews

Pros

Networking purposes: You get meet a lot of people and you don't just get to meet them, but you can set up a 'Meet and greet' to sit and have lunch/coffee with them.

Events: Disney throws amazing parties and events.

Cons

Disney Consumer Products is currently going through some construction, building new buildings and parking structure. So at the time being PARKING really sucks!

Advice to Senior Management

I don't know how things have changed since Andy Mooney has resigned, but I'm sure Disney knows what they're doing.

Pros

The people I worked with were like family. they were all very nice and very talented

Cons

It's hard to get hired full-time after the internship

Advice to Senior Management

please appreciate your artists more. And don't overwork them. There are already few artists left so don't lay them off. There are a lot of work that need to get done and you need more people to do that.

Pros

Complimentary tickets every six months.
It's Disney!

Cons

Management doesn't care about you.
Terrible pay rate.
No fair/legit raises.
The more you do, the less you get back.
Horrible work environment.

Advice to Senior Management

Be more considerate to your employees. Not everyone is willing to pay for minimum wage and work as hard your employees do. So when you can get someone to work under your horrible conditions, make their time enjoyable until they realize they can obviously get better jobs EVERYWHERE else.

Pros

Love the people
Good benefits
Nurturing environment

Cons

Salary a bit low compared to other entertainment industries

Pros

Management is fair and smart; always looking ways to improve the business.

Cons

Unless someone leaves the position, it is difficult to get a promotion.

Pros

It's a truly international company that manages to draw from a really diverse and talented pool. It offers some great perks and growth opportunities.

Cons

It's a high-structured, hierarchical organization with people who are often so focused on getting to the top that they eagerly shove and push you aside to do so. It's a tough environment.

Advice to Senior Management

Be more in touch with your employees.

Pros

It's always great to be a part of a great brand....being able to tell people that you work for Disney has a certain cache.

Cons

4 re-orgs in 4 years
New management has zero respect for people - they treat employees like widgets
Aggressive cost cutting measures that (unfortunately) only impact the BOTTOM - i.e. cut the internship program, but continue to give executives company cars

Advice to Senior Management

Think about what kind of culture you would want your SON/DAUGHTER to one day work in. Treating people like they are less than human beings worthy of respect and decency is never acceptable. Everyone goes to work wanting to contribute and be productive. Change does not necessarily equate to marginalizing people. Do something you would be PROUD to be a part of. I am not sure the "new" management team has much to be proud. Walk around the hallways and make EYE contact.....you will what your "changes" mean.

Pros

It's a very warm place. Bosses are very nice.

Cons

It's very hard to get promoted.

Advice to Senior Management

none

Pros

- Being a “cast member”
- Making a child’s day
- Sharing Disney knowledge on a daily basis
- Benefits

Cons

- Unpredictable hours. Depending on the time of the year you can have anywhere from 0-35 hours a week as a part time employee.
- Frustrating management. It could just be my store, but my managers were extremely frustrating to work with. They would expect an employee to come in right away at the drop of a hat.
- Spoiled children and entitled parents. Although I fully understand that any retail job is going to have its share of frustrating customers, I feel like Disney has some obstacles others don’t. Such as children who want nothing more than to throw every toy they can find to the other side of the store, and parents who will go as far as to threaten a cast member simply because they waited until last minute to buy something for their child and it’s out of stock.

Advice to Senior Management

Listen to your employees more, and show them more respect. It’s hard to write this, because my experience is at a store level, but I do feel like as a whole the people at the bottom of the food chain are treated more like robots than humans. My advice to upper management would probably be to have anonymous meetings with sales associates to find out how a store is really being run and how store management is doing, instead of “random” drop by’s that managers somehow find out about and plan for.

Pros

Learning the Disney way of licensing their IP - how they represent their IP on product and tell a story; working with some very talented and creative people especially the creatives and artists; some perks like swag, getting a sneak peek at what is upcoming and Silver season pass to the theme parks; working on mostly great looking products with your favorite characters

Cons

Highly political; many Cat. Managers and Cat. Directors concerned more with CYA and often incompetent but are friends with the right people and have good people under them; learning the Disney way which often only applies to Disney and not to other cos.; Category managers do not really have control of their businesses vs. retail buyers; low pay and titles for the "privilege" of working for Disney; huge company that is not easy to navigate and get information; lots of meetings so hard to get actual work done

Advice to Senior Management

Clean out the dead wood at the top and middle and reduce the politics. You have some very passionate worker bees who would love to help create great products but if they were treated better, might stay around as the turnover is high.