Worked for Marriott International for over 15 years. Started in the hotels and after several years ended at Headquarter
Pros
Benefits including medical, dental, disability, profit sharing, vacation time, some departments offer telecommute and flextime, daycare for a fee, exercise club for a fee, cafeteria, gift shop, post office. Associate rate for hotel rooms with good discounts. Competitive pay. Formalized HR and associate review policies. Big company so many opportunities in different departments. Respected company in the area. If you are a person who is type A competitive and enjoy big company politics then this is the place for you...
Cons
Although they claim, the company culture is still the same "we take care of the associates so that they take care of the guests" the company culture has changed signifigantly to be direct profit driven. They no longer value expertise in the hotels or the hospitality industry and go out of their way to outsource and/or hire people outside of the hospitality industry. This has resulted in not accomplishing objectives because the right people are not in the right jobs and therefore it takes more time, money to get anything done and in the end although they think they saved money but outsourcing they actually increase cost because of the lack of expertise and inefficiences. Customer service is suffering as a result. Departments are very sioled and each VP is more concerned with covering mistakes vs learning from them, and competitive to the point of heeding progress. Therefore switching departments and job growth is very difficult because of this competitive and siloed environment. Associates are expected to work long hours to reach unrealistic deadlines with inappropriate staffing and is very stressful environment . Workload varies greatly between departments. What was once a culture of collaboration and a work family is now one of competitiveness and backstabbing. I long for the days of the old Marriott ...
