Disney

Smart and creative co-workers. Pretty much everyone is very collaborative, nice, and follows the Disney company culture. The products we work on make people happy. Pay is decent but by no means market-leading when compared to newer tech companies. People's decision to stay and work here is more likely based on the enjoyment of the job and the location.

It can be hard to advance in flatter or smaller groups with long-tenured employees.

Pre-pandemic, there were always budget cuts and headcount reductions in unrelated areas as a result of large projects like new parks and lands opening.

Then came furloughs during COVID, followed by deep layoffs (seeming like almost half).

Now, we are told that most of our jobs will be moving to Florida in the next 1-2 years to consolidate on a new campus, but pretty explicitly for long-term cost reduction. It's hard to get excited for future career and resource growth to move to a place created specifically to save money.

This decision blindsided everyone, from the co-Presidents of Imagineering on down.

Expect a lot of attrition in the next year, which will lead to increased workload above that created by the layoffs.

The new Imagineering will eventually succeed again at delivering large, impressive projects, but it will be a wholly different place.