Pros
Cheep hotels prices as a benefit
Cons
I'm forced to give this one star - I wish I could give it none. If you are a mediocre butt kisser or an employee who wants to be treated like crap by management, this is the place for you. I don't understand the high reviews and as I read through them, looks like most are at the property level. HQ is a disaster. You will not get anywhere by being smart motivated and innovative. They claim innovation is the big objective/core value but it's not. God forbid you're smart and capable. They will manage you out, mostly because a large percentage of managment has only gotten ahead by being there their entire career and not based on the quality, ability, or qualifications they possess, and smart capable people are therefore a threat. There are Director level employees that would not make it outside of Marriott. Do you really need to use a Director level headcount to specialize in creating power point slides - as a job? You have SVP's padding jobs by bringing in their "buddies" with big promotions not giving exsisting Marriott employees a chance. When these "buddies" fail at their goals, work is just shoved down to another Marriott- albeit capable- employee but giving them no time complete the work and setting them up for failure then berating them when they do. HR is in bed with Sr. Mangement and they actively work together to ban good smart people because they are perceived as a threat to the Marriott lifers. I have honestly not met one person who is happy working for HQ and many of these people who were lured by the sexiness of working for "the world's largest hotel chain" are actively looking for new positions. Employee engagement scores are so low and get lower each year. Yet nothing is ever done. If the C-levels cared anything about the company they would get an outside firm to analyze all the financial waist due to poor processes, bad leadership and unethical (although probably completely legal) hiring, promotion and vendor engagement practices. If you're smart and have any self-respect at all you will avoid this company and it's culture, because you will not advance in your career. You'll be frustrated while incompetent outsiders with internal connections or Marriott lifers are brought in over you because of who they know or how long they have been there and not qualifications, while you're made the scapegoat and berated when things go wrong.
