Pros
Half day Fridays ( if you’re lucky enough to have a manageable workload, which for me was rare if at all) Great heritage brands Canteen on-site has good slightly subsided food Free parking at Stockley Park
Cons
Was enticed in by what sounded a juicy role, great brands and what I was told a great culture. Sure was that so so wrong!!! I had seen the prior bad press on Hasbro specifically in the U.K. yet thought that was far behind them so gave it a go, on a pretty mediocre package. When I started it seemed full of lifers, most upper and senior managers on 8-10-20 plus years there and if you weren’t in their cliques you knew about it. Managers were trying to hire in ‘new thinking fresh blood’ yet rarely lasted as they either did not fit their weird mould or would be too intelligent and forward so they would leave. Upper management are those who have done their time in the business and only ever really worked at Hasbro so have little knowledge of anything else, which makes working there so hard. Many are wolves in sheep’s clothing saying what a great company it is, expecting people to believe it whilst they do really awful things, really awful. Worked ragged, working all hours just to get through what they call the ‘day job’ for many to then be made redundant when upper management make sales and marketing mistakes. If you don’t go to their extra events you get blacklisted as an outsider! It’s a dark company and such a shame with such heritage brands being ruined. If you dare to work there beware of the wolves and try to avoid their bite! Complete lack of support for middle managers and admin staff from upper management/ directors, very political. HR are simply there to manage business risk for what they do to employees and nothing said to them is in confidence, so if you do experience something not so good there is no where to turn. Looks good on paper, that’s it! To top it off the office location feels in the middle of no where, like an out of town jail.