Mattel reviews

3.4

64% would recommend to a friend

(1,505 total reviews)
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Ynon Kreiz

65% approve of CEO

42% positive business outlook

Mattel has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 1,505 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Mattel employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.5 stars).

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2K reviews
4.0
Oct 6, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Half day fridays. Smart colleagues. Great salary and bonus.

Cons

Very competitive. A lot like Survivor. Hard to know who to trust. You can easily languish for years without a promotion and just as easily be cut at the first downturn in sales. Not a very loyal company. I've seen really good people let go for no reason and a lot of bad people stay because of their alliances.

1.0
Mar 17, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Wonderfully smart people outside my group. Careful of the silos though.

Cons

Makes money but doesn’t support employees. Fear based management. No care from management for your growth. They want to be innovative but don’t know how to actually go about supporting those that can. This place is just old and stuck. This place is so micro managed from the top down you’ll only be happy if you don’t mind being told what to do, no be appreciated for your contributions. Make sure you read the fine print. They have lots of layoffs almost on the regular and if you aren’t there for 3 years they take back their 401K contributions. I’m out $18000. But they’ll tell you all day how much money hot wheels made. “Best revenue ever!” But they took back my retirement. The Corp is just slimy.

2.0
Jul 5, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Half-day Fridays (all year!), phenomenal benefits (401K matching, health, dental, etc.), great El Segundo campus amenities (gym, daycare, dry cleaning, etc.), fun colleagues, and a work culture that really likes to celebrate the holidays.

Cons

A ridiculously top-heavy organization with leaders of questionable ability (Google "Mattel CFO" and "phishing scam" for a good laugh). I wouldn't recommend for anyone under a Director level because that's roughly the level when your thoughts & opinions are finally considered. Until that title, expect your workdays to involve resolving infighting among cross-functional partners, trying to align with the many levels of leadership, manually updating Excel spreadsheets in lieu of proper systems, and creating tons of PowerPoint presentations for internal meetings. Aside from that, there's the constant chaos - from the mass exodus of talent to the regular reorgs, there's a running joke internally that "If you don't like something, just wait a few months". This sounds amusing until you realize what it means is that nobody knows what's going on because you're either onboarding new talent, working with new talent on other teams, or trying to figure out the latest dynamics of the org structure of the moment. Other things people care about: Work/life balance is totally dependent on your team and your boss; it varies dramatically from team to team. Promotions are fairly easy to come by, put in ~2yrs and you're on your way up. Rotations to other teams/divisions used to be a selling point of the company but with so many people leaving, managers are more and more reluctant to let people rotate internally.

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