Hasbro Reviews

Pros

- The vast majority of my coworkers were excellent people and very professionals. A few rotten apples like the trade marketing manager, but in general top class! - Office location was close to the airport. Very convenient when traveling like I did. - Toys discounts - Hasbro is a powerhouse in the toy industry and very soon in the entertainment industry as well. Very good name on anybody's resume.

Cons

- We went from bad to worse in a year!! From being led by a couple of self-centered machistas to being led by someone who is very focused on and rooted in Mexico with little vision of the region. An American office in Miami that is being run the Mexican way. Very discouraging for those of us who were making a career with a more global vision. - Hasbro in recent years has become a more progressive company. A company that understands the social changes that are taking place in the world and how these affect not only how businesses are run but also how they affect employees. However, these changes that are applied and encouraged from headquarters are not applied by the leadership in the Miami office. The are two parallel companies, one that sells you ideas of progressiveness (HQ) and the one that tells "they do not apply here" (Miami). Example; the dresscode. When you have a general manager that indirectly dictates how they should be dressing and if you don't follow, it affects your chances of promotion. On the other hand, the flexibility of working from home. Nowadays it should be an option, but when you have a leader who does not know how to manage based on results but on physical presence as a kindergarten, it is very difficult to believe that we are going for a progressive path at same pace of other trend setter companies. Don't get me wrong, in the Providence office you can have all those perks and benefits, but for the Miami office, it does not apply unfortunately! Very old school oriented! - I was hired in the US to work based in Miami, but for some reason, HR for the Miami office was in Mexico. So, if you're not there good luck!! Back when the machistas ruled the office, it was very difficult to address an issue because for the Mexicans that was the normal (the way leadership behave)

Pros

Half day Fridays and a ton of vacation time from the get go. Solid salary.

Cons

Red tape, operational dysfunction beyond what a typical worker should encounter, the good employees leave because their tolerance for ineptitude is lower than those who stay. Newer employees who have been employed elsewhere quickly realize what a mess this company is once they get down to business, which only fuels incredulous dissatisfaction and quickly leaving within a year or two. I know people who left with no job lined up because it was so bad. Older employees and those who have never experienced a true healthy workplace stay because they don’t know any better. It’s like some twisted Stockholm Syndrome thought process. I can’t imagine the layoffs that are going to occur because of the coronavirus impact - they’d already done layoffs twice in a period of a year and a half leading up to COVID19. I also find it telling that the company was parading around a new CXO hire in April 2019 like it was going to revolutionize and save the business yet they hadn’t even figured out how people would report into her and what the role would entail, and by October 2019, she was gone from the company. Whether she left because she was so unhappy with the realities of the dysfunction of this company, or because they said to her that her ability to actually work and try to change things for the better “wasn’t a fit”...that entire scenario is classic Hasbro.