LEGO US hides behind its brand to treat and pay its employees poorly. The US head office (moving to Boston) is the worst of two worlds… 1. D&I is promoted as a core value with a TON of lip service, but: - LEGO has fired just about every US-based senior person of color (and most external senior level females hired externally). - Employees now feel empowered to claim discrimination at any time. And after LEGO HR (very unprofessionally) investigates these claims and find them 100% unfounded (sometimes outright lies and collusion amongst co-workers), they do nothing about it. 2. LEGO promotes its “people promise”, but: - Will fire long-tenured, highly rated employees because a new manager doesn’t like them. Conversely, they’ll bend over backwards for about 5 old white guys (even creating brand new roles for them) who should’ve been forced out 10 years ago. - Doesn’t offer a legitimate career path outside sales. Once you’ve hit your peak in US, they have no use for you. Even if you want to go to Billund HQ (which is the equivalent of moving to the praries of middle Canada), they’ll make you take a pay cut. 3. CEO is good, but next few levels of leadership are awful. - CPO is an arrogant and self-absorbed person (no one loves to see their name in the media more) who talks an OK game but has single handedly destroyed the culture that once made LEGO a good place to work. His US HR org is incredibly unprofessional and led by someone who lacks courage, heart, and brains. - US leadership is a clique of long-tenured half-heartedly woke white sales leaders who have inflated egos but actually contribute nothing to the company’s success (it’s all the brand and product). They’ll spend hours talking about D&I but is hostile to external leadership hires to the point of actively sabotaging them (which happened to a senior Latina… and one saboteur ended up getting her job). Basically, they’re inauthentically woke for job preservation reasons only. In short, I’d think long and hard before accepting an interview, let alone a job, at the US LEGO office in Boston.
