Free perks but lacking community and high living costs - Technician Dollywood Employee Review

Dollywood bends over backwards to give employees benefits! My summer contract was not long enough to qualify for health insurance but they do offer it! Management was always lovely and I thoroughly enjoyed my time there.

It's a bit slow and red-tape-y to get interpersonal disputes handled.

Good perks if you have kids with free tickets to DW and most attractions in PF.

- Fewest holidays off in my career as you follow park operations schedule - Required to work the park on some weekends as part of mgmt - Disconnect between finance leadership expectations and operations makes it impossible to collaborate. Operations senior mgmt works manual jobs on the park and doesn't have time to actually be leaders or strategic. - Bad financial and operations systems make it extremely messy to understand performance outside of the highest of levels in labor mgmt, F&B, Admissions, and other depts. Ticketing is a mess. - Very little strategic thinking or fun finance work. Ex. Finance is not privvy to capital projects until after they're approved and then "We make the capital approval model work so the project is approved". Those capital post mortems are not fun. - Marketing led company that is highly contentious with Finance leadership. not analytical or ROI driven. Always in a fight with if questions are asked about performance.