Good company - Product Development Engineer Mattel Employee Review

Great company culture, exciting marketing projects with iconic brands like Barbie, and a highly supportive team environment.

The internship duration felt a bit too short to see the full impact of the go-to-market strategies, and cross-functional alignment can take time.

+ Great and generous benefits package

- Pay is so so - Company is going down hill and will probably get worse - Very poor top management decision making - Toxic, disrespectful, incompetent, lazy, top IT leadership/management - Excessive micromanagement and too many repetitive unneeded daily and weekly meetings - Extremely poor work life balance, you will work long hours day and nights - High stress - High turn over due to reorg and offshoring across many departments, no transparency on restructuring - Uneven and unfair hybrid work environment depending on department and director you report to - Top management promotes untalented workforce and brings in poorly untalented referrals. While talented workforce takes the brunt and gets no promotion Final recommendation: skip joining Mattel IT unless your desperate for a job and are ready to put in excess amount of hours from your life to the expense of putting your personal life at risk