Horizon Hobby Reviews

Former Employee – worked at Horizon Hobby

Pros – Employee owned, supportive leadership. Fun work environment

Cons – Sales team was better paid than the CS dept that supported them.

Current Employee – been working at Horizon Hobby full-time

Pros – The make RC products how much fun is that.

Cons – Its cold in the winter.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Horizon Hobby full-time

Pros – Horizon makes and markets some great products. Unfortunately, all of the US manufacturing they've bought up has been closed and nearly all products are sourced from China.

Cons – Decisions take forever and everything is by committee until its time to flog the innocent.

Notorious for cutbacks at Christmas.

Treat everyone the way you want to be treated only applies to the underlings.

The glass ceiling is low and cracked in Champaign. Few female senior managers. Horizon is not the place for intelligent, outspoken women.

Advice to Senior Management – Make a decision. Please.
Pull nonessential parties from meetings to reduce static.
Stop trying to pound the corporate culture b.s. into everyone and start following the platitudes you wrote. We'd respect you more if you led by example.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Horizon Hobby

Pros – Horizon has great people, and is a pretty relaxed enviroment

Cons – Management can be incompetent and depending on who you work for a little tight.

Advice to Senior Management – Respect your employee's more, if they do good you look good. But its hard to do good for management you do not respect.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Horizon Hobby full-time

Pros – smallish company, good profit sharing, "good ol' boys" mentality

Cons – small-minded management, divisive tactics, imbalanced incentives, "good ol' boys" mentality

Advice to Senior Management – think bigger, or company will not grow. shift towards marketing-driven structure

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Horizon Hobby

Pros – Employee owned company with very good benefits.

Cons – Management hides behind their religion and does not walk the walk.

Advice to Senior Management – Actually act like Christians rather than telling everyone how good of Christian you are.

Former Employee – worked at Horizon Hobby

Pros – Some of the people that work there.

Cons – Some department manager are lacking in professionalism, ethics and power hungry. One department manager fired people simply for his entertainment.

Advice to Senior Management – Make every employee follow the mission/ethic statement not just non-management. Weed out upper mangers that enjoy throwing their "power" around to prove status.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Horizon Hobby

Pros – You are responsible for your own work: Productivity is based on how you dictate the work being done, you're not held responsible for how fast or hard others work.

Very efficient: Management makes efforts to ensure an 8 hour day or less as the week progresses, but almost never under 40 hours/ week.

Monday through Friday work schedule in the Distribution Center! Only on a couple of occasions have their been opportunities to work on a Sunday to prepare for Monday (due to heavier than usual workload).

Awesome employee discount! Product can be purchased at cost plus 10% plus tax. Remote control airplanes, cars and trucks, trains, toys ect. The list goes on and on it's like working in a toy box!

Upside-down management profile means the management serves you! I've never had confidential information shared with any management that I've spoken with, and have almost always felt that my opinion or idea was valued when shared. Most of the team leads in the DC are phenomenal at helping you meet job requirements and help you to get to the next level wherever that might be.

Nearly endless potential to advance or change paths. Positions within the company are filled from the inside out always and as the business grows, there is always potential to move on to something bigger and better.

Low turn-over rate: This is driven by the employees and their eagerness to help one another out. I asked for tips to help me meet rate when I first arrived here and almost everyone was more than accommodating to help the "new guy" to learn the ropes.

Personal Development Plan: A very personal performance review, very holistic and fair. The amount and quality of work invested really pays off! Horizon Hobby doesn't want 'paycheck employees.' If you're just looking to collect a paycheck, look elsewhere, hard work and being yourself finally pays off at Horizon Hobby.

Cons – Tedious work: Not too much diversity in the tasks that you're asked to do, which to some makes it easy to adapt to the task you're asked to do. At least however you always know what you're supposed to be doing without having too much directives from leadership.

Consistently changing the way they do business: Plans to switch to a warehouse management system, means efficiency first, but this will potentially force one person to do a job that two people typically would do without the system.

Gossip: Word travels fast when employees catch wind of someone moving or something happening within the company. I'm sure it happens everywhere, but sometimes it seems like people are playing the telephone game because the facts are typically skewed by the time the truth comes out.

Advice to Senior Management – Serve logic over policy fairly: Some managers will make exceptions for some, giving them 'breaks,' but others are just spoon-fed the law of the land. Statements like, "well Horizon Hobby's policy is..." really doesn't speak to every situation, and while few do this, this kind of leadership is... Well, not leadership at all. If this isn't a corporation, then corporate answers like this, to issues people are having outside of work should be eliminated.

Kudos! : Keep doing what you're doing. That's what makes this business successful and a great place to work.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend