Company: McDonald-s
Date: 2016-10-30
Overall rating: 5/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Guest Experience Leader
Pros: Room to advance for dedicated people. Friendly atmosphere, paid above min. wage and generous benefits package.
Cons: Honestly, biggest con isn't Mcdonalds itself. It's the image people have of it being a job for students, or the desperate.

In my brief time there, I definitely saw a very professional atmosphere that was totally anti-cliche (in a good way). Mcdonalds could work harder to promote itself as not just a fun job, but a meaningful one. As a GEL, I DID feel like my time at work made a difference in the days and lives of my guests. It mattered!

As for cons for the job itself:

Corporate management and store management had completely different outlooks and requests for what my role entailed. Constantly dancing between those two (radically different) ideologies was stressful, to say the least.