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Merlin Entertainments

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Merlin Entertainments reviews

3.2

53% would recommend to a friend

(1,224 total reviews)

Fiona Eastwood

41% approve of CEO

32% positive business outlook

Merlin Entertainments has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 1,224 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Merlin Entertainments employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Arts, Entertainment & Recreation industry (3.9 stars).

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1K reviews
1.0
Feb 12, 2014
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Pros

My team-they were a fun bunch and I miss them! I learned a lot-on my own-through trial and error-how to manage a larger facility and deal with a larger staff and guest count.

Cons

Senior Management is lackadaisical, incompetent, insensitive and unintelligent to a degree that is frightening. NOTHING that is broken ever gets fixed and they expect the hourly staff to grin and bare it and just make the best of it. Promises of improvements are made but rarely if ever kept. Mid-level management is miserable-so much so that even though they are supposed to work together-they work against one another-sabotaging each other at every turn. There is ZERO sense of team spirit. The "that's not my job" mentality seeps through the walls of this place like a toxic ooze touching all who work there-meaning if there is a piece of trash on the floor in the gift shop-the retail staff say " call custodial" and the custodial staff say "its not my job to clean the shop-just the bathrooms!". Funny thing is the bathrooms are FILTHY! This place is a joke-robbing hard working families of their money and giving them nothing. Management thinks they should be happy with what they get and is completely puzzled when people complain. UMMMM EVERYTHING is broken and if not...it's falling apart! And the people who are paid to fix it all " I don't have the part", "that's not my job-so and so is contracted to do it" and "I'm too busy!" All the while they sit and stare at a computer screen all day doing NOTHING. Merlin Entertainments owns this place NOT LEGO-they are ruining peoples ideas of the LEGO brand.

4.0
Jan 24, 2014

Great place to work

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Who would not love to work with all the great animals. Not your usual dive instructor job

Cons

Merlin Entertainments is a huge international company which does not necessarily mean that executive decisions are in favour of the smaller companies, such as Sea Life.

5.0
Dec 1, 2013

Great culture with amazing products

Anonymous employee
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Pros

It is a friendly and relaxed place. I think the staff are very easy to get along with. The management are open to ideas and constructive criticism

Cons

The salary isn't great. I think they should increase wages for some roles - in order to remain competitive.

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