Get your bag and get out. - Designer JAKKS Pacific Employee Review

2.0
27 June 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Benefits were good. I hear they sometimes pay people well. It isn't as bad as it used to be. The updated in-house shops have actually made a great deal of difference in sample-making and printing. Allowing WFH was the best decision Jakks ever made. People come onboard to get initial salary and then quickly split to work at another company.

Cons

Beware brown-nosers, hypocrites and gossiping cliques looking to get in quick with bad bosses. Random layoffs to keep employees in check. Toy fair showroom is a JOKE, about 10% actual toys, 10% sales meetings and the rest is backbreaking elaborate backdrop used to entertain owner's friends. You'll rot with stagnated pay if you rely on management to recognize your hardwork. There would be crazy turnover if they didn't beat people to it by laying them off before they got fed-up.

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5.0
5 May 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

great place, good people. nimble and more entrepeneurial. decent pay.

Cons

santa monica commute is harsh

1.0
24 June 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

depending on the team youre on, it makes or breaks the experience.

Cons

terrible management from the top down. ceo also hires his kids into higher positions with no experience and everyone just pretends it's fine. bad work/life balance as directors and VPs just have the coordinators and interns do all their work. its a cliquey place to work where everyone hates one another talks badly about each other.

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