My time at Houdini's started ok, then become more and more shockingly bad.įrom games breaking constantly, to staff spreading rumours, gossiping and ultimately pushing people out the company if they didn't like them.Īccusations of bully, and staff throwing each other under the bus for a job that shouldn't be taken so seriously and should and was fun at the start. I will say that the site I worked for was great, my management was flexible with hours and the team work hard, I cannot fault them. Unfortunately some management are limited on the power they possess to successfully make changes or do things as the powers above just don’t care. You would think they would hire enough considering the main selling point is the escape rooms but I’m sure if you’ve made it this far into my review you have realised they are clueless. If things break in the escape rooms (which happens ALOT) then you are expected to fix it (which is fine) but if it’s beyond your skills or your tools then you just have to adapt the games and lie to customers but the company don’t have enough people employed to fix rooms. The contract states you get a certain amount yet when you work there you have to earn it.

Contracts state completely different things to some of the policies, for example holiday entitlement. They are too busy opening new sites to care about the staff they currently have. There’s no thanks for the hard work the team put in.

Bonuses are not paid properly most of the time. They will tell you a wage and then not pay it but then ask for proof that you were told you would be paid the wage you were promised. It’s a fun job, I enjoyed the people I worked with but an awful company to work for.

Great houdini escape room