Fuhu Reviews

Pros

Some reviews on here by short timers or contractors who are bitter, are just because they don't have any perspective on how business actually works and they live in a bubble. The management here are the hardest working, most passionate and genuinely good people I have ever met. The CEO is the friendliest and most approachable guy I've seen where he'll stop and say hello and ask you how your day is when I bet he has a million things on his mind. THe culture values competency and dedication, not just hours put in.

Cons

The company's innovation and speed to market has always been its greatest core competency, but the obstacles have been operations in terms of inventory management.

Pros

Understanding and gave me an opportunity most companies never would have. I had no prior experience and to be given the position that they had was really giving me the benefit of the doubt. Furthermore, they gave me plenty of chances, a decent salary, and treated me like family. I felt compelled to end on good terms and am very glad that I did. HR even followed up with me a couple weeks later to see how I was doing and I thought that was very considerate of them. All in all and despite the many horrible reviews, a job is a job. I'm just grateful I had one! I definitely do feel like I got spoiled during this job and am very worried that I'm gonna have a sudden realization at my next job about how I shouldn't have given up my position at Fuhu.

Cons

The work in particular wasn't stressful, but the workload definitely was. I had no doubt in mind that I wouldn't be up for the task nor fail at anything that was handed to me, but rather if I could deliver in a timely manner. I was fully aware of the long work hours and had a life where I had no work and was just bored out of my mind. Work had become a place to squelch my mind and to keep busy and I really am/was grateful. I'm just a little sad that it took so long to get the help I needed.

Pros

There are a few smart people here you can learn from.

Cons

Paychecks have been late recently. At this point I'm not even sure if I'm going to get it. If you value getting paid on time don't work here. While the paychecks are late it doesn't seem they don't mind to indulge full-time employees in free lunches and otherwise wasteful spending while their contractors are left to dry. This is very much the type of company that will have a party one day and next day announce they are shutting down. Very shady practices here. Communication is awful and everyone is left in the dark to figure out what's going on. Even managers seem to be at a lost as to what is really going. There are a lot of under qualified managers here. The same people working in another company would not hold these same positions. For a company that makes kids products, much of the management are under qualified young post college grads who have no kids and work insane hours. Hard to believe they understand the needs of kids or parents when they themselves do not live typical parenting lifestyles. If you think this is going to be parent friendly working schedule you'll be very sorry here. There are great points as to them breaking labor laws and misusing 1099 contractors for example demanding they be onsite and at specific times on a regular schedule.

Pros

Free food and free coffee, which is considerate. There are a few really great, intelligent people at this company, but they're either silently miserable or else outcasts who eventually get fired.

Cons

I was motivated to post a review because I noticed there are a lot of obviously fake positive reviews on here. There are so many things I'd like to say, I'm honestly not sure where to begin. It's expected that you stay hours late each night, just for the sake of staying late--what makes this even more frustrating is how inefficient everyone is. No one--especially not management--knows how to prioritize and set realistic goals, so you end up working on superfluous things that make it impossible to complete meaningful long-term projects. You end up having to try to do everything, while ultimately making no progress. It's like an endlessly sinking ship that you'll be bailing water out of until 8 or 9 each night. The inefficiency also stems from a lack of communication between coworkers and departments. No one is ever on the same page. This might be because people are afraid to ask questions--and rightfully so. You could be fired for things like that. It's really weird. There are also some unsettling cult brainwashing tactics at work here. As a rule, just never be candid with anyone, or it will probably be used against you. I get that it's a start-up but, as others have pointed out, it's been a few years and Fuhu needs to adjust.

Pros

Free Costco snack, and nothing more. Once you've experienced working here, things could only get better.

Cons

Trying to be as unbiased as I can, but every negative comment is mostly, if not all true. Cult like management business style, all orchestrated by the president. Both President and CEO are very unpleasant people to work with, would swear and belittle the staff in front of everyone else, not to mention very manipulative in their words. President didn't even acknowledge me when I greeted him once outside the building. For my department, the company terminated a staff, so that the work can be delegated to rest of the team, hence the long/unreasonable hours. The person that was terminated was a good worker and didn't nothing wrong in my opinion to be terminated. If you questions their ways, you'll will be terminated, and their reason is "bad attitude". The pay is not reflected from the work and hours you put in. Questionable company performance in term of their profitability, and growth rate. Personally, I think Fuhu is very good at marketing themselves in looking like a great company. But, realistically, it's all a front in masking the truth. As an ex-staff, I've experimented with their product, and in all honesty, it's a very inferior product in a market that is already saturated and dominated by their competitors. I would personally pay double if not triple the price for a competing product. Even when i was still employed with the company, i didn't believe in the product, nor the company itself. Everything I've wrote could be substantiate from the past reviews from other people.