Vantaggi
For the majority of the many years (10+) I spent working for Hyatt I loved the company, the people I worked with and for, the team enviornment and the focus on community. For mid to upper management positions, Hyatt agressively promoted from within and had wonderful training opportunities. Salary was in line with other hotel companies for management positions and the benefit package was competitive.
Svantaggi
Going public changed the company as did economic challenges in 2008 and beyond. I think a lot of decisions were made by GM's and Regional teams that were not in line with the culture that I had grown up with. The focus was revenue generation and cost cutting over all else I believe a company needs to be profitable but there were decisions made that crossed lines and effected the company in troubling ways for many years. When I left there seemed to be an "old boys club" atmosphere that was out of touch and often times offensive.