Merlin Entertainments Employee Reviews about "long hours"

Pros

Staff is very friendly to work with. Fun atmosphere

Cons

Very young managers and long hours.

Pros

Decent payed, great way to meet people

Cons

Intense, full on, long hours, few breaks

Pros

Meet lots of new people

Cons

Long hours for fairly low pay

Pros

Very fun place to work where you make friends for life. Engaging day to day structure where you can challenge yourself and learn lots of transferable skills within one industry. For example, I gained recruitment, L&D, marketing insight, guest facing, staff management and many more skills just from the one role in one of the parks smaller departments. Home grown style of progression, with lots of internal training and chances to develop

Cons

Occasionally demanding on hours, but predictable demand that comes with time of year (for example, I knew Halloween was going to be our busiest time of year with long hours). Pay is fine on hourly, however lower tier perm positions often lack the salary that comes with additional work load. Turn style method of staffing means lots of fresh faces moving in and out of the business, this can create a lot of competition when it comes to progression. Limited progression within my chosen department, must have a keen interest in other key areas of the park like rides or retail if you decide you wish to create a career. For a lot of people it is not sustainable enough to be a forever job, but I think with the nature of the business that is ok and I enjoyed my time there but an eventual expiry date was clear.

Pros

good company for first job

Cons

long hours with little breaks

Pros

Fun colleagues to work with

Cons

Poor wage, long hours No career progression

Pros

Culture Varied experience Good team effort Catering

Cons

Long hours Management could be better Hardly any praise Strange training sessions

Pros

Pan exciting industry to work in and a fast growing company

Cons

Expect their pound of flesh. Long hours for below average salary