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Royal Caribbean Group

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Royal Caribbean Group reviews

3.9

67% would recommend to a friend

(2,123 total reviews)
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Jason Liberty

74% approve of CEO

69% positive business outlook

Royal Caribbean Group has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 2,123 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Royal Caribbean Group employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Hoteles y complejos turísticos industry (3.6 stars).

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2K reviews
1.0
Jan 21, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Free gym to use in building and NO ONE is EVER in it! They ONLY promote from within which you have to know all aspects of the job before you can be promoted so don't be fooled that hiring outside for management positions is even a possibility!

Cons

Highly underpaid and upper managements goal is to figure out ways to pay you less and less. Due to state agreements (they pay NO taxes) they are unable to lay off employees yet they are also required to hire "X" amount of new employees every year. To accommodate this agreement they do MASS firings. From April to October it is VERY normal for 150-200 employees to have been fired EVERY year to which they then hire on the average 250 new employees between October and December. January through May they hire handfuls of people off and on. The state only cares about their "new hires" the local media ONLY hears about them constantly hiring and ONLY their ex and current employees likewise the department of employment know how they really work! They have one of the highest unemployment claims in the state! This company is currently being sued for millions on top of millions of dollars for ilegal work practices, inadiquately paying their shipboard employees and ilegal work conditions. To the untrained ear this company sounds great to work for but you soon find out differently! In a pinch work there IF you need a job but keep your resume out there and keep interviewing! Longevity with this company is rare to nonexistent!

1.0
May 10, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The product is fun and it's hospitality

Cons

The company culture is just terrible, very sad. Turnstiles tracking attendance, however you are expected to be available for calls 24/7, they refuse to address work-life balance. Additionally, the company is in full on savings mode, so dept. resources have been severely cut with more and more responsibility on the individuals, something has to give. the company continues to grow yet we continue to cut resources, salaries, and benefits.....all while providing no flexibility and requiring people to commute to the busiest area of miami.

3.0
Nov 15, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Some of the best people you will meet. Really kind, creative, hardworking and pleasant people who actually care and want to make things better. Halloween is the best big event, where everyone goes all out to dress up and create themed workspaces. Obviously, cruise perks (though stand-by requests are harder to get on nowadays) like new-ship shakedown cruises and the once-in-a-lifetime Familiarization cruise. They also have good perks at the Port Miami offices: 50% off Starbucks and cafeteria, dental/vision/masseuse/chiropractor/doctor on site.

Cons

Terrible and/or non-existent processes and documentation. For such a big company, a lot of it is held together by really piecemeal or archaic systems (or just plain tape & Excel). We should be a lot more efficient and organized, but everything is a late-minute emergency. Leadership makes decisions without questioning if its even possible to track whatever arbitrary target they’ve set. And to top it all off — the headquarters is at the Port of Miami. Traffic gets worse by the day, cost of living gets worse by the hour. Yet, they’ve doubled down on in-office work recently, for absolutely no reason. Some teams (like some sales and IT) were privileged to have 3 days in, 2 days remote (everyone else had 4/1). However, everyone had flexibility to do what they needed. I saw people getting in around 6/7am to leave at 2/3pm very often. Now, they’ve mandated that everyone must return full 4/1 and from 9am-5pm. The order came down from managers to employees; they made sure there was no written announcements or communication. Leadership has completely avoided talking about it at all, despite everyone being tense and bitter about it. We’re a multinational company whose next closest population size is based out of the PHILIPPINES, 12-13hrs away. We have ships all around the world and so many partners in Europe as well. All they’ve managed to do with this hours mandate is frustrate everyone who has to work with international teams, let alone all the ones now newly suffering high peak traffic. Meanwhile, the CEO and CFO can be seen leaving the office early pretty much daily. It feels like leadership is seeing how much they can push before people leave, and then not believing anyone will. But of course, no one will leave until after bonuses in February. The company culture has taken a huge step backwards regarding trust, autonomy, and loyalty. All the Employee Resource Groups have fallen apart even though some keep the title of ERG leader to make themselves look good. It doesn’t feel like senior leaders have as much commitment to anything as they do to the bottom line. Shortsighted.

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