Don't recommend - Finance Dollywood Employee Review

1.0
19 Jan 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

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

Cons

- 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.

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5.0
28 May 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

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.

Cons

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

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2.0
17 Feb 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

It’s fun. The people (hosts) make the job fun. It’s great for kids starting out fresh out of high school and those who are retired and have nothing to do.

Cons

Not a place for people with families. Pay is not where it should be. They are wayyyyyy behind on the pay scale. They say in orientation that “the people are dw’s best investment” but where was the investment? It was in new restaurants and new rides. I understand that it is an amusement park and that restaurants and rides are the bread and butter, but the people there deserve what they are owed. They say well look at the perks, the perks that don’t pay the bills? Yes you do get perks but you work so much that don’t get to use them. Underpaid. Under valued. Over worked. I’m not saying DW is the worst, but be cautious.

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