Pros
- Dedication to work life balance: Half day Fridays throughout the entire year and 5 additional days of annual leave. - Majority of the people are very friendly and nice. Many became friends outside of work.
Cons
- Outdated systems and processes that are time consuming. - Tight deadlines around holiday periods. - Marketing senior management was terrible. Unrealistic expectations, not willing to mentor new staff, lacking empathy, unenthusiastic, egotistical, and dismissive. - Hierarchical. Marketing Director would bring in her friends as senior marketing managers who had no experience in FMCGs or the toy industry. However, they we’re unenthusiastic and not willing to learn from other staff members. - Misleading title of ‘Marketing team’ - it should be renamed to ‘Product Management’. The role involves minimal creative marketing, majority of your time is spent on admin and analysing data. If you hate excel and data analysis then this place is not for you. - High staff turnover during my time of employment particularly in the marketing team. Although, cannot say the same about other departments.