Company needs to change badly. Broken workplace. - Anonymous employee Hasbro Employee Review

So much is broken right now after the October layoffs. For years Hasbro had been headed in the wrong direction, failing to update technology, business processes and its structure. Outdated leadership and bad management were kept around, using fear and bullying to lead their departments. People who were favorites who barely did any of the work and had no idea what they were doing but kissed up were promoted. All of the great things they used to offer for employees for special programs, giveaways or activities have been cut or ended over the years. Things have snowballed for years and finally exploded with the layoffs that happened in October, causing a ripple effect across the company. If you are considering applying, know that you are walking into a minefield right now. Training in most areas is throwing you into the fire. Salaries are under market for the same job at other companies. Work/life balance is a joke. Most people right now are working 50+ hours a week to keep their heads above water and are doing the work of multiple people. Lots of functions were outsourced to vendors, especially companies from India, who made things worse. Hasbro kept cutting talented internal people to send work to contractors which cost the company more in the long run. Most managers/directors have no idea how the day to day operations work. Racism and sexism is rampant in many divisions. Upper management is completely disconnected from reality. VPs and above have no clue how much red tape people have to deal with and how poorly groups work together. The company is very penny wise, pound foolish. People that regularly make mistakes or ignore issues that cost the company thousands or even millions of dollars a year get away with it, while front-line workers that make a simple human error are berated. The talented, hard working people are just rewarded with more work while other people will surf the web or chat on the phone all day and get great performance reviews. All of the best people are leaving for other companies because they had enough of the abuse. If you use the "four hours a month" to volunteer at activities or if you take vacation, you better be prepared to work a lot of extra hours on nights or weekends to catch up.