Great people, collaboration, chaotic, understaffed, mixed leadership - Lead Designer Spin Master Employee Review

4.0
29 Apr 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Hybrid work days, flexibility with medical appointments, hospitable and kind coworkers, lots of innovation and collaboration across departments, fun projects, ability to hire outside freelancers to help with heavy workloads, subsidized training, decent benefits for toy industry, they are improving some of their inefficient processes (slowly), you will always be kept busy

Cons

High turnover in leadership makes it hard to adjust to team approach and communication, chaotic process, high churn, weak in-house prototyping resources, team dynamic varies per brand and department, inefficient internal systems, understaffed packaging team, widespread ADHD, lack of sufficient staffing doesn't allow time for taking any subsidized training, low priority on user-testing, too many meetings, IT doesn't support Mac users well, printing paper is unreliable lol

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5.0
23 Sept 2025
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Pros

nice coworkers and leadership. Snack all the time

Cons

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3.0
18 Feb 2026
Recommend
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Pros

My coworkers were the heart of the company. Excellent PTO and benefits.

Cons

Rely heavily on inventors and freelancers. No room to actually innovate and design. Management level was promoted based on office politics and not experience/success. Very cliquey in times where you question if someone was speaking behind your back, turns out they were.

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