Super smart team - Good place to be creative, learn and have fun!
Pros
Worldwide name recognition in the baby and toddler market. Nice life balance. Staff and Senior Management understand and are supportive of work and family balance (Summer Fridays are a plus!) People are really smart, interesting backgrounds from many different industries. Productive (not time draining) brainstorming/team building meetings help everyone contribute and really get creativity flowing. The design team, led by Ellen Diamant (one of the owners) is really great, from top down everyone is open to suggestions, even from the most junior staff. Ellen and Michael Diamant built Skip Hop from scratch, I have only been here 2.5 years, but I wish I had been here from the beginning. They encourage all members of the team to get to know each other (yup, it's Ping Pong Fridays - no joke!), which adds a nice social aspect to the job ( something not every company does these days). Plus they make sure if you work hard, you play hard - we get a really generous vaka package.
Cons
If you're lazy or un-enthusastic you might not like it here, but if you're into developing new baby products, want a cool casual work environment with some pretty smart and diverse group of people you'll like it here. It's a fairly open work environment, so if you are an "I need an office" person, you probably won't gel with the culture. Liking kids and/or having a child, niece/nephew, sister/brother etc... is probably a positive, I have 2 kids and it makes understanding the products and our customers easier.
