Bandai America – “Great place to learn and build your resume--not a long term career home.”

Pros

Bandai offers full service health benefits that most companies stopped offering their employees 20 years ago. And, they manage to continue to offer to their employees at no cost to them! Also, Bandai promotes a healthy work/life balance by encouraging their employees to only spend the amount of time necessary each day to get the job done. A casual dress code also promotes an easy-going environment that allows creativity to flow.

Cons

The company is Japanese and encourages promotions of their own ex patriate employees over the American local hires. With little advancement opportunities and continuous cultural differences among all the employees, work can be difficult to complete and often times the job can suffer.

Advice to Senior Management

Senior management needs to be in closer touch with the American marketplace and to rely on the advice of their American hires to provide much needed assistance to create a more successful business strategy.