Disney Reviews in Orlando, FL Area

Pros

-great benefits and great training

Cons

terrible pay and poor management at times

Pros

The perks are very good and the people you work with can be very enjoyable. It can be very fun and exciting if you really want it to be.

Cons

The hours can be very different day to day. Requesting time off can be difficult as well.

Pros

good for college grads, exposure to many systems, complicated architecture

Cons

Not family friendly, suck every bit out of you they can, whatever you allow, politics rule, mgmt not qualified and mostly just robotic and terrible, puppets to higher management, pay stinks to start, company takes advantage of lack of competition of IT (they rule Orlando) work to treat workers poorly, they do not give you choice of what projects you work on, will ruin your skills if you let them by sticking you in place they need someone, then won't let you out as they do not want to train someone else. Treat people over 50 horribly. Really alot of evil behind the scenes. Long-timers say company has gone continuously downhill in last 20 years as a good place to work.

Pros

Proud of Brand and quality of people employed there.

Cons

Very few promotional opportunities even for top performers. Little support from leadership to champion high performers for promotional opportunities.

Advice to Senior Management

Value your Cast Members

Pros

Practice my communication skills and have deep understanding about different kinds of cultures.

Cons

Working as a cast member was a very hard job. The job is strenuous.

Advice to Senior Management

provide more benefit to the cast members and do not through the fresh food away. Disney can provide their cast member with the food left or send them to the Red Cross.

Pros

Fun
Good Pay
Great Advancement
Stock options are good
Great culture - just like you would imagine

Cons

Orlando is expensive
Political gamesmanship is key

Advice to Senior Management

Keep listening to your employees. We need a greater voice!

Pros

They seem to provide good benefits to their employees once hired.

Cons

Some of the management does not know how to communicate with co-workers without degrading them and putting them down. There is not enough information sharing. You are only allowed to see a small window of how your work fits in the big picture but are not given enough relevant information on other areas of the company in order to do your job effectively. Disney does not provide training, or at least did not for me, and then they put you down and yell at you for procedures you were never told.

Advice to Senior Management

Adequate training should be provided to new employees. For a new employee to receive 'no training' at all and then be criticized and humiliated on a daily basis for not knowing Disney's 1 million plus policies and procedures that have no relevance to the actual job skills performed is terrible.

Pros

decent training, good perks, clean work enviornment

Cons

Pay is bad, promotions are done unfairly

Advice to Senior Management

I have my masters and lost out on a promotion to a high school graduate who had been working at disney longer.

Pros

Getting to work with "guests", learning the WDW property as well as most if not all resorts on property. The benefits and free admission to the parks

Cons

Money, no chance of getting a top out wage. Dealing with the public (on vacation no less)

Advice to Senior Management

More praise for a job well done. Boost moral, work on a respectable wage for having 60-75 lives on a bus.

Pros

The insurance (only optional for full time) is very cheap and pretty good. Getting in free saves a lot of money assuming you would be going to the park whether you work there or not.

Cons

The hours are terrible, there is no flexibility when you need time off, the heat in Orlando is insane during the majority of the year, people treat you like crap because you're in an amusement park even if you're a college grad, the managers treat people like garbage, there is no communication, backstage facilities are terrible, scheduling is uncooperative, advancement is limited unless you're a serious ass kiss, and the pay is lousy on any scale under Area Manager.

Advice to Senior Management

Might be nice to treat people with respect and stop acting like you're the greatest thing ever. The fact is, you're probably less educated than the people who work under you.