Issues with Management - IT Employee Funko Employee Review

1.0
11 Apr 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Freebies, Store Discount, Health Benefits, In-Office Perks

Cons

Where to start? This is honestly the most frustrating job I have ever had; this is comparing it even to retail and food service as a teen/young adult. Upper management is an absolute nightmare. They lack organization and hardly know what is going on in their own departments. They shirk off responsibilities and let the rest of the staff pick up after their messes. More than once I had to do their job/assignments because they simply "didn't want to do it" or because "it wasn't their thing." What they are even doing, nobody knows. They certainly aren't doing their jobs. The CEO is widely hated throughout the company and is known as being "creative, but not quite business savvy." Then why is he leading a business? They promise open opportunities for growth during the application process and then have the department directors pull the new hires aside to tell them that there will "never be any opportunities available that [they] are looking for" and that they should "just stick to [their] current paths." And we haven't even touched how they handled COVID-19. Upper management was absolutely against working from home up until it was mandated by our state that they should consider the possibility. Why? Not because it wasn't doable. Because they just didn't like it, because of their feelings. They admitted time and time again that they didn't "trust" their employees to get their work done and that the "traditional office" was just the right way of doing things. Reader, it is 2020. Work from home programs are rolling out all across the country, but especially in our Seattle-Everett area. If you can't trust your employees to do their work, why did you hire them? And on top of that, it is not like you wouldn't know they weren't doing their work because it is pretty obvious when someone DOESN'T have their work done??? Absolutely ridiculous. To emphasize this, they sent emails to every employee shortly after the WFH mandate threatening their jobs if "productivity fell." We are in a pandemic, people are sick and dying, and they were threatening our jobs knowing this because they can't "trust" their employees. And then not even a month later, they laid most of the company off anyway, which I don't necessarily blame them for during these hard times, but it made the events leading up to it inexcusable. They were so worried about their employees being lazy, that they weren't able to give them proper notice (we were told one day before our furlough) and help their employees prepare. Not only that, but their lack of organization led to hurried paperwork and a large number of our unemployment benefits to be rejected. So now we can't even pay our bills. Funko doesn't care a bit about it's employees and I would never recommend for anyone to work here. The entire system is rotten. Please know your worth and apply to a company that will treat you with respect and avoid this one at all costs.

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5.0
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Pros

- Great work life balance - Fun culture - Great teammates

Cons

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3.0
3 Feb 2026
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Pros

The people are why I've stayed here. If there weren't so many great folks here, I would have already left. Some cool mid management leaders. Has potential to be a cool culture, but only if they don't make it feel forced. New CEO Josh Simon brings promise to turn the company in the right direction. If Funko is going to thrive going forward, Josh is the person that can do it. I have more hope for the company now than I have in the last 4 years.

Cons

Some of the upper Leadership needs a rehaul. Some remaining toxicity that hinders the culture. Not great social engagement planning - they try, but it usually feels fake and forced, not natural. Lots of layoffs in the last few years - I've gone through 4 without being impacted. Work/life balance can be really difficult, but if you mention the concern you're pinned as someone that just can't keep up, which isn't accurate for everyone. Managers should actually consider if there needs to be rebalancing, especially since staff are expected to sometimes double or triple workloads after each layoff, with no title or compensation increase.

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