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Wizards of the Coast Employee Reviews about "work life balance"
Updated Nov 20, 2023
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Pros
- "Work life balance is good at this company with a lot of products given for free to all full time employees." (in 19 reviews)
Cons
- "Some of the middle management is poor and in need of further training or replacement." (in 14 reviews)
- "I still have nightmares that I am back there with arrogant incompetent managers that are just trying to stay within their precious clicks." (in 12 reviews)
- "I've also been less impressed in my brief interactions with senior leadership of other sections of the company." (in 11 reviews)
- "If product matters, for the cash value, you’d be better to just buy it yourself from a discounter store, while working at a more stable company with real benefits and actual competent culture." (in 10 reviews)
- "Constant layoffs where leadership will create their own open headcount to bring in friends from outside the company at previous companies they work." (in 9 reviews)
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Reviews about "work life balance"
Return to all Reviews- 5.0Sep 1, 2017InternFormer Intern, more than 1 yearRenton, WA
Pros
- Amazing coworkers who empower you to do your best each day - Plenty of extracurricular activities and club programs - Endless opportunity to work outside of your department and expand skill set - One of the best philanthropy programs - Great Work/Life balance
Cons
- General growing pains of internship program
- 4.0Sep 16, 2021Principal Software EngineerCurrent Employee, more than 1 yearRenton, WA
Pros
Good people, fun atmosphere and my manager cares about us. Work life balance is good.
Cons
Not very innovative. Bad at tech because of lack of investment. So hard to get approval to do anything.
5 - 2.0Jul 12, 2012DesignerCurrent Employee, more than 1 yearRenton, WA
Pros
You get to work on visually appealing and exquisite jobs. 'Work' and life balance are good.
Cons
•Communication between departments is at minimum if none existent at times. •Security attempts just make your job complicated and unproductive. •Someone always gets fired during the Christmas Holidays. •Managers just do meetings and lunches, nothing more. Well and Facebook. •There are more managers and bosses than actual workers, which causes for the little people (workers) to be buried in work and are taken for granted. •Employee Moral y always LOW •Inconsistency, on everything! •Its funny how they hire people that don't really care for the product and decline those who live and breath the games.
5 - 2.0Nov 10, 2014Anonymous EmployeeCurrent Employee, more than 1 yearRenton, WA
Pros
Work/Life balance is good Comp is good in certain groups Hasbro 401k plan is stellar if you're able to contribute
Cons
Health benefits are awful, with massive out-of-pocket costs Vacation time is a bit low for the area and industry Company culture is very weak Career development is extremely difficult
8 - 5.0Aug 11, 2023Senior Finance AnalystCurrent Employee, more than 8 years
Pros
Flexible hybrid work requirements, decent benefits, and great culture
Cons
Can get stuck working too much and impacting work life balance
- 3.0Nov 13, 2023Software EngineerCurrent Employee, more than 5 yearsRenton, WA
Pros
Excellent Work/life balance (if on the right team). Great culture, especially for fans of WotC products.
Cons
Confusing leadership decisions, disconnection with fans, regular layoffs. Difficulty advancing.
1 - 1.0Oct 30, 2021Anonymous EmployeeCurrent Employee, more than 3 years
Pros
Great swag Interesting IP if you like D&D or Magic Good work life balance
Cons
Very little diversity in leadership Old school management style Very little promotion opportunity Agenda around D&I not taken seriously Will try to lowball employees hired (ask for level and pay band in interviews)
7 - 2.0Nov 16, 2010Anonymous EmployeeCurrent EmployeeSeattle, WA
Pros
They have work life balance down in that no one really works that hard in comparison to other IT jobs.
Cons
The place is full of passive aggressive politics and back stabbing. This is encouraged by management and leads to a culture avoidance and CYA that makes doing your job very difficult.
5 - 3.0Jan 28, 2016Anonymous EmployeeCurrent EmployeeRenton, WA
Pros
Efforts are being made to improve employee culture. Lots of smart people and fairly good work/life balance. You get lots of product.
Cons
Medical insurance offered is expensive and pay is on the low end. Would like to see more women at the top as it tends to feel like the good ol' boys club. It can be political and senior leaders aren't always on the same page and it trickles down.
4 - 4.0Nov 23, 2017Software EngineerCurrent Employee, less than 1 yearRenton, WA
Pros
Work life balance is good at this company with a lot of products given for free to all full time employees. WotC is backed by Hasbro as its child company. Free soda and some amenities. About 15 days paid vacation days and 3 personal days from the first year.
Cons
Pay is a little below average. I'm sure the company is going through a change for better but a few arounds of layoffs happened all of a sudden this year.
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