A top-heavy company with no regard for its workers. - Anonymous employee Spin Master Employee Review

1.0
Jan 24, 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

A toy company seems like it would be a fun place to work, meaning other people get excited when you tell them about your job; as time goes on, however, this only makes you more conscious of how truly unhappy it is.

Cons

Like many companies, Spin Master relies on short-term contracts rather than hiring staff full-time and giving people any benefits. The CEOs here seem oblivious to this fact, as seen when the company went public and one declared at a staff meeting that "Everyone gets shares!" Not everyone did get shares, however, just the full-time staff, so it's other ignorant or intentionally hurtful that they would announce this at an all-staff meeting and then repeatedly email everyone to reiterate it. This blind approach to managing their company - ignoring who's doing the work that gets done - with an exclusive focus on corporate goals, means working in overcrowded, inhospitable conditions for long hours and through weekends. And for what?

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