(11-17-2022, 12:54 PM)mikesez Wrote:

(11-17-2022, 12:30 PM)NewJagsCity Wrote: Just on a personal note, I'd rather work at a company (which I do) with very few PM's and Functional types.  Those are layers that, while needed in the right measure, can sometimes get in the way of or distort the real work.

In my limited experience Disney Parks is an example of a company fully bloated with middlemen,  who are always having endless but meaningless meetings, who rarely change their guidance, while Universal Parks is an example of a company that probably has too few managers compared to the number of decisions they are expected to make.

Interesting you mention both of them.  I work for an IT Consulting firm based in Orlando, and we have lost IT folks to both Disney and Universal over the years. We've also gained some from them. You are absolutely right on with your assessment, at least in the IT shops for both; Disney is overmanned (overpersoned?) and Universal is under.  In addition, I grew up down the road from Orlando in Winter Haven and worked at the Magic Kingdom in the mid to late 70's part time on various attractions while working my way thru college.  Even in Operations (attractions, shops, restaurants), there was an excess of management levels once you got out of field management (attraction lead supervisors), and moved up to Area management (Adventureland, Tomorrowland, etc).  Not sure how it is today.

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