What are perks and other benefits like at Walt Disney Company?

Great benefits such as tuition reimbursement, insurance, and free admission to the parks

Pay does not match the current market and cost of living in the area

Good benefits and perks, good job security other than layoffs, people are generally very nice.

Suffers from some issues with groupthink poor hiring choices, and lack of upward mobility due to stagnation of mid-level employees in some departments. Annual merit increases are pretty pitiful.

Great management, fun environment, good benefits, and a lot of perks!

A lot of rules (as expected) and the pay could definitely be better.

Great hours, benefits and perks, easy to get days off, union representation representation.

Leadership often lacking in the leadership part.

Great peers, collaboration, and great benefits and opportunity to grow

No cons on my side.

Works well with schedule and pays for school

Doesn’t offer benefits for part timers and all the perks and schedule favor only full timers and higher seniority even tho they can no longer perform the job properly.

Good work life balance, benefits and perks

Mid pay, uncommunicative middle management. Many layers of management, very few actual leaders in corporate finance.

The company culture is excellent, employees are happy, the benefits are amazing, the company actually cares about its employees.

Required to work in office 4 days a week.

The perks of the cast member are fun, although the college program itself doesn’t really offer anything special anymore. Unless you really want to live at flamingo crossings, I would recommend just getting a job at Disney normally. You’ll get better pay, have more control over your schedule, and you get benefits. The college program *is* a good way to have a better shot at full-time employment at Disney, since you’ll have access to the transfer system.

The point system sucks, I recommend googling that, “Disney World point system.” It’s quite draconian. You don’t get any sick days too, so be ready to rack up the points if you catch something from the hundreds of people you interact with daily. Leaders can choose to consolidate all of your sick days to one point with a doctors note, but then you have to go to the doctor and pay for it out of pocket because you don’t get any benefits and still getting the points off your record is up to their discretion. College program kids get no control over their schedule, they just get what they’re given, whether it’s the minimum 32 hours or in the 50s. I knew people that worked six day week with ten hour shifts as a regular. Getting time off is also a hassle, and having regular days off is not guaranteed, so if you take two days off, you could literally only have two days off that week. Giving away shifts requires permission, so you being able to give away shifts is really dependent on what your leader thinks is appropriate. Trading shifts works well, at least. Flamingo Crossing costs way too damn much money. On my short shift weeks, rent was literally half my paycheck. It would have been cheaper to just rent an apartment with roommates on my own. I probably could’ve had my own room for less than I was paying. I recommend trying to bring a car, but good luck because they didn’t build a parking garage for some insane reason so spots are limited.

- The Company provides good benefits, perks are great in you're interested in visiting the Parks and Resorts during your personal time. - The Aspire program for Hourly Cast members is great, for salaried it's good. There are some upcoming changes to it but it's still really food overall. - Pay can be good in general but can be underwhelming for many roles. - While the company overall may make many foolish and questionable decisions working here you know that you have employment that is likely to have longevity for atleast the upcoming years. Career long stability is questionable in current culture.

- Leadership: There are many individuals who may be great Cast Members but aren't fit for leadership. As professionals it's not something they're proficient at but get roles based off how well they interview instead of looking at all prospectives of; experience, current work, historical performances and ability to lead and develop others. Many roles within the organizational structure are repetitive and it makes the company top heavy in terms of salary. -Talent Acquisition: Job posting will be made, when there are already preferred candidates which wastes time and resources. Additionally, they will be very literal in how they interpret talent skill sets. If you have history within Hotel Operations or Comp they will immediately correlate everything with hotels only not realizing that you're capable of a wider range of roles. There is a stay the course mindset for a company that was built off of imagination and stepping outside the bounds. It's very interesting to see how lost the company is. - The perks and discounts exist to help reinvest wages employees receive back into the company, some of the discounts are about the Same as a DVC member or Annual Passholder. It doesn't come off as showing Cast Members appreciation for their hard work instead a incentive to come spend your wages when you may already be underpaid. -As it is the Company isn't sustainable long term, in a few decades the household name will implode on itself. The current generation of executive management, senior management and management are all contributing to it's decline. There are many who are innovators, great business leaders and operators. Sadly, they are outweighed by those who are just not meant to be in their roles. I think if pay and work culture was better from the bottom up many of them would've stayed in roles they were better fit for instead of clawing higher up to positions they're not effective in or meant for.