the LEGO Group reviews

4.3

84% would recommend to a friend

(2,935 total reviews)
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Niels B. Christiansen

96% approve of CEO

79% positive business outlook

the LEGO Group has an employee rating of 4.3 out of 5 stars, based on 2,935 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The the LEGO Group employee rating is 24% above average for employers within the Produktion industry (3.5 stars).

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1.0
Dec 17, 2011

Watch your back... literally!

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Everyone loves LEGO. You tell people you were there and their face literally lights up. The products are fun and cool. It is a good product for children that you can feel proud of working on. You can often express yourself creatively and people are really passionate about working there.

Cons

I have never worked in such a nasty, backbiting place as this. As someone else mentioned, they will promise you the moon to get you to sign on, without any intent of keeping a single promise. And if you complain, they just ignore you and figure out a way to get rid of you. They only way to survive there is to be as aggressive as possible and step over the bodies of your coworkers as you climb the ladder. Until someone does it to you... Most of the people you work with are OK. Until you accidentally displease them and then get on their bad side forever. I saw it happen to all my colleagues, and then it happened to me. A person I worked with tried to get me fired for their own incompetence. Luckily, this was hard for them to do, since they were not my boss but my co-worker. (Seriously, what is wrong with a place where peers think they behave like that...) Taking the proper channels, I complained to my boss whom I assumed would be appalled. Nope. My boss totally abandoned me and threw me under the bus. Two weeks later, my replacement was hired (I was told this was a new co-worker) and I was forced out. I never even was told what I did wrong. To this day, I have no idea. My boss was forced out after that, so there is at least some karma. I saw them fire people who had been there ten years without a second look. There are many people I know in the field who will flat out not work with them because LEGO's reputation now precedes them (eg, low balling vendors, firing employees without cause, and generally trying to get out of paying what they owe).

1.0
Dec 4, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

1) You get to work with the coolest of toys. 2) The work isn't all that difficult. 3) Generous employee discounts (the customers get stuffed).

Cons

District/Regional Management ignores bad store managers and allows them to skip work and make us assistant managers do his work while he gets paid. The store manager kept two schedules-- one for what was really worked and one for payroll. Several days a week the timecard system would be "down" so we couldn't log in. The manager swore he put the hours in for us and blamed corporate. Employees often got shorted on their paychecks. Employees who complained got fired and corporate supported them. I was fortunate enough to read the writing on the wall and find a better job.

2.0
Nov 15, 2011

Definitely not like what you would think...

Anonymous employee
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Pros

My positive experience with this company only lasted the first few months I was there. The company has great health benefits for their employees with ordinary pay. "I work for LEGO. Yes, that LEGO." Some of the people are amazing to work with, and they can teach you a lot. The discount wasn't bad, either.

Cons

On the other side, the company has many reorganizations in which they use to get rid of anyone who challenges the ideas of upper management. The focus of LEGO is to have a "family-oriented" and it's exactly that. Unfortunately, if you're not a part of that small family (or from Denmark) then it is extremely difficult to move up in the company. There were very few promotions, and they recently have taken women out of any upper management roles. The company is extremely political, and very cliquey. They do not seem to recognize the hard work of their employees. The company also did not treat their contractors working for them very well, making false promises of contract to hire and treating them as if they were dispensable. The company didn't care about employee moral or worries. To be honest, I wouldn't recommend this company to anyone. The constant political battles, rumors spread, and walking on glass trying not to step on any toes can become draining. The worry of always watching your back, and hoping to not lose your job with all of the reorganizations were stresses I wouldn't wish on anyone. This company encourages the ability to express one's opinions, but lash back if those opinions aren't the ones they wanted to hear.

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