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Marvel Entertainment reviews

3.8

74% would recommend to a friend

(158 total reviews)

Isaac "Ike" Perlmutter

68% approve of CEO

52% positive business outlook

Marvel Entertainment has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 158 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Marvel Entertainment employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Audiovisual y medios de comunicación industry (3.7 stars).

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158 reviews
2.0
Mar 12, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The people outside of IT were terrific.

Cons

It took over 6 weeks to get a laptop allocated to me. I had to use my own laptop during the 6 weeks. Marvel Management was saying that spending more than $400.00 was too much to spend for a laptop. Management wasn't willing to spend the money so I ended up with 2 year old laptop where screen work only intermittently. My personal laptop had a quad core I5 processor and the one given to me was a duo. The company was cheap. Very little "on-boarding". I had no sense of how the company worked and how my job was part of Marvel machinery. I came into work at 8:30AM on my first day and did not leave until 10PM that evening because a vendor and I were trying to solve a capacity issue. It got work worse from that time forward. If I had an upgrade which started at 8PM, I was asked to be on site all day (starting at 8:30AM). Most of the upgrades did finish until 3:00AM. Never any compensation for working extra hours. When I worked until 3:00AM, I had to return to work to work by 8:30AM. There were issues with vendors taking days responding to a Sev2 alert. Management seemed reluctant to resolve solve the vendor issue. Most of there storage platforms were between 3-4 versions from the currently release. It got to the point where the vendor was threating to only supply best effort response. No configuration management tool for IT to track system changes and outages,

2.0
Jan 30, 2014

A valuable experience, but the company treats its employees like work horses.

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Working with comics and some of the most beloved characters in pop culture.

Cons

The term, "wearing many hats" is used freely here, but it is a euphemism for working 3-4 jobs and getting paid for one. The environment is too high pressure, almost like a hospital. Employees are not treated like they matter. The benefits are sub-par for such a large and profitable company. There is also very little room for growth and promotion.

3.0
Oct 30, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great people, some fun projects to work on (comics, movies, cartoons, etc.). Casual dress code. You get to go to movie screenings, conventions, get discounts on toys/swag. The brand recognition and positive associations with it are pretty great. People love the characters.

Cons

Shockingly stingy. No real career track, advancement/development programs. Easy to get stuck in a rut. The company does not care about investing in its people and their morale. We would get yelled at by the CEO for using too much paper when printing things out and had to recycle office supplies like file folders instead of getting new ones. The company Christmas party was moved from an outside venue to a buffet in the conference room. They used to sell merch internally cheaply (you could get a t-shirt for $1), and then they started jacking up prices a ton (t-shirts for $15+). For a company this successful, there was no reason to be so cheap.

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