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Odeon Cinemas is an international cinema company

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Odeon Cinemas job reviews

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  • Best thing

    Free films & each day is different

    Worst thing

    Rota produced late in the week for the next week

    6.8

    Odeon Cinemas Employee, January 2024

  • Best thing

    Showmanship

    Worst thing

    Interference by people who can't run the business

    4.5

    Odeon Cinemas Employee, December 2023

  • Best thing

    some of the people i’ve met

    1.3

    Odeon Cinemas Cinema host, November 2023

  • Best thing

    Hours, pay, the people

    Worst thing

    Can be a bit boring

    9.1

    Odeon Cinemas Cinema host, November 2023

  • Best thing

    The people

    Worst thing

    Highly inconsistent and unreliable hours

    6.0

    Odeon Cinemas Cinema host, September 2023

  • Best thing

    Free tickets, nice team

    Worst thing

    Lack of training

    7.1

    Odeon Cinemas Cinema host, September 2023

  • Best thing

    Discounts, my colleagues (not management higher up), and independence

    Worst thing

    My boss, doing most of the admin work, too much reliance on me, travel

    3.5

    Odeon Cinemas Employee, September 2023

  • Best thing

    The other staff members

    Worst thing

    The disrespectful customers

    5.0

    Odeon Cinemas Cinema host, August 2023

  • Best thing

    Flexibility around childcare

    Worst thing

    Stress, lack of investment, lack of training, cuts to payroll budget

    2.8

    Odeon Cinemas Duty manager, July 2023

  • Best thing

    Free tickets and the staff

    Worst thing

    Sweeping popcorn

    7.8

    Odeon Cinemas Cinema host, June 2023

  • Best thing

    Free tickets
    Discount

    Worst thing

    Lazy staff
    Big work load
    Not enough training
    Staff expected to train new starters

    5.5

    Odeon Cinemas Cinema host, May 2023

  • Best thing

    benefits and good pay

    Worst thing

    dealing with annoying or rude customers, cleaning up after guests

    8.4

    Odeon Cinemas Cinema host, April 2023

  • Best thing

    It's an easy job, not much is needed except common sense.

    Worst thing

    Higher Ups have a tendency to neglect certain aspects that we as employees feel should be important.

    3.7

    Odeon Cinemas Cinema host, March 2023

  • Best thing

    Free films, Creative freedom to an extent, Enough hours, Can screen films in free time, Enough pay,

    Worst thing

    Heavily Understaffed especially with managers, Underfunded, Rarely busy, No decision making when it comes to the film slate, No sick pay

    3.5

    Odeon Cinemas Employee, March 2023

  • Best thing

    The workers.

    Worst thing

    The pay. The break time. Everything

    1.2

    Odeon Cinemas Cinema host, January 2023

  • Best thing

    Free tickets
    Easy to book time off/ Call in sick
    Mostly low stress

    Worst thing

    Less than a weeks notice for shifts
    Sometimes understaffed

    8.0

    Odeon Cinemas Cinema host, January 2023

  • Best thing

    Relaxed and simple

    Worst thing

    Boring and unfulfilling

    4.6

    Odeon Cinemas Cinema host, December 2022

  • Best thing

    It can be very relaxed and can also be steadily busy on good days

    Worst thing

    It can get very boring on slow days and unbearably hard on busy days

    8.7

    Odeon Cinemas Cinema host, November 2022

  • Best thing

    Its is short hours and good oay. Get paid for our breaks and get one day off a week and rest are 3 hour days

    Worst thing

    Start at 4am

    9.5

    Odeon Cinemas Cleaner, November 2022

  • Best thing

    Meeting so many amazing people and the free films

    Worst thing

    Working late nights minimum wage

    7.0

    Odeon Cinemas Cinema host, November 2022

  • Best thing

    The people. The colleagues make it a nice place to work not the company.

    Worst thing

    Too much is asked of us for what we are on.

    4.6

    Odeon Cinemas Cinema host, November 2022

  • Best thing

    The team

    Worst thing

    scheduling, too much staff sometimes

    8.4

    Odeon Cinemas Cinema host, October 2022

  • Best thing

    The colleagues and the free films

    Worst thing

    Stressful when busy, not enough staff

    4.9

    Odeon Cinemas Cinema host, October 2022

  • Best thing

    Some of the managers

    Worst thing

    Some of the managers
    The shifts that are set are extremely hard to get changed and the host’s have to change them.
    If I were to be ill before a shift I am the one who finds cover, unfortunately it is not the cinema manager who does that when it should be.

    3.0

    Odeon Cinemas Cinema host, October 2022

  • Best thing

    Working with a great set of colleagues

    Worst thing

    Lazy managers, lack of discipline, useless head office, underpaid

    2.1

    Odeon Cinemas Cinema host, September 2022

  • Best thing

    Good location, close to home, perks

    Worst thing

    Pay, progression.

    7.3

    Odeon Cinemas Employee, September 2022

  • Best thing

    The people i work with

    Worst thing

    The customers

    5.0

    Odeon Cinemas Cinema host, September 2022

  • Best thing

    The perks & colleagues

    Worst thing

    Underpaid and understaffed

    2.4

    Odeon Cinemas Cinema host, August 2022

  • Best thing

    Free tickets and discount

    Worst thing

    The costumers at times they can be stressful

    3.4

    Odeon Cinemas Cinema host, August 2022

  • Best thing

    Free movie tickets

    Worst thing

    Stress. Underpaid

    5.0

    Odeon Cinemas Employee, August 2022

  • Best thing

    Great team

    Worst thing

    Can get lonely on gsp

    8.4

    Odeon Cinemas Cinema host, July 2022

  • Best thing

    The free movie tickets, having to only work 4 days a week most of the time.

    Worst thing

    Having to deal with guests that booked on the wrong day, wrong cinema, wrong cinema chain, and then shout at you like its your fault they screwed up, or didn't read the terms of their voucher and expect free stuff.

    Having to deal with rowdy teenagers that won't leave when requested to.

    Working full time, but having to basically beg to get given a full time contract because head office don't dish them out in order to control costs at the detriment of your happiness

    3.7

    Odeon Cinemas Employee, July 2022

  • Best thing

    Free tickets

    Worst thing

    Bad mangers, it’s so dead no guests and wanna leave

    2.1

    Odeon Cinemas Cinema host, July 2022

  • Best thing

    Free films and easy job. Can be fun at times when working with others.

    Worst thing

    Terrible pay. Sometimes relentlessly boring. Sometimes doing jobs that require a higher pay.

    6.8

    Odeon Cinemas Cinema host, July 2022

  • Best thing

    Staff discount/free films

    Worst thing

    Not treated with respect by some management, pay should be higher given the problems we have to deal with.

    4.2

    Odeon Cinemas Cinema host, July 2022

  • Best thing

    Everyone I work with is so nice

    Worst thing

    People can be messy when leave the cinema

    8.2

    Odeon Cinemas Cinema host, July 2022

  • Best thing

    The team

    Worst thing

    Not getting rotas in advance and slow to confirm holiday

    6.0

    Odeon Cinemas Employee, June 2022

  • Best thing

    Free cinema tickets

    Worst thing

    Pay, lack of progress, late hours

    6.0

    Odeon Cinemas Team member, June 2022

  • Best thing

    The people i work with.

    Worst thing

    Low pay & little to no promotion ladder to climb. Doing the work of multiple people due to low staff numbers.

    5.0

    Odeon Cinemas Cinema host, June 2022

  • Best thing

    Discounts
    Staff

    Worst thing

    Not get holidays easy

    4.5

    Odeon Cinemas Employee, June 2022

  • Best thing

    The colleagues

    Worst thing

    Literally everything else

    3.3

    Odeon Cinemas Cinema host, May 2022

  • Best thing

    Eveyone is nice.

    Worst thing

    The hours sometimes

    8.6

    Odeon Cinemas Cinema host, May 2022

  • Best thing

    The team of staff.

    Worst thing

    No official proper training just done by staff.
    The inconsistency in managers moods and attitudes towards you
    The awful rotas and hours
    Not listening to what shifts you'd prefer or what would work for your plans
    Awful guests
    Feeling unsafe at work
    Not paid enough for the work they expect of you.

    1.3

    Odeon Cinemas Cinema host, April 2022

  • Best thing

    nice team, good holiday hours, fairly flexible work times

    Worst thing

    get rota for friday to thursday on tuesday so cant plan weekends in advance, always understaffed, bad pay, dead end job

    6.0

    Odeon Cinemas Cinema host, April 2022

  • Best thing

    The team members, free films, the atmosphere

    Worst thing

    Management. they're lazy, clueless, and out of touch with their staff

    5.0

    Odeon Cinemas Cinema host, February 2022

  • Best thing

    Managers are lovely
    East going go an extent

    Worst thing

    Busy
    Fast paced

    6.1

    Odeon Cinemas Cinema host, February 2022

  • Best thing

    The team you work with

    Worst thing

    poor pay, people not understanding ID checks, lack of stability with hours and shifts, only only 3 days notice before shifts

    3.7

    Odeon Cinemas Employee, February 2022

  • Best thing

    The other hosts really make this place without them many people would leave sooner than they do, it’s easy to make friends within the hosts.

    Worst thing

    Poor management one of the worst I’ve ever seen, always moody and forgetful but blame the staff for their faults. Customers (guests) are awful and always rude. Many have been threatened, attacked and brought to tears and some managers don’t bat an eyelid because “it comes with working in retail”. Not the mention you get the rota for the week 2 days before and have periods where “no one’s holidays will be approved”.

    1.0

    Odeon Cinemas Cinema host, February 2022

  • Best thing

    The free films and discounts, but that's about it.

    Worst thing

    Head office has absolutely no idea how we at Cinema level actually do our job or what we need to do that job effectively and efficiently

    2.3

    Odeon Cinemas Employee, February 2022

  • Best thing

    The Team is very nice and the managers are nice as well.
    The perks are very good
    The schedule is flexible for availability

    Worst thing

    Pay is awful
    Hours are unsociable
    Can be very boring on quiet days when the tasks are done

    5.5

    Odeon Cinemas Cinema host, December 2021