Funko reviews

2.9

39% would recommend to a friend

(286 total reviews)

Mike Lunsford

54% approve of CEO

24% positive business outlook

Funko has an employee rating of 2.9 out of 5 stars, based on 286 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Funko employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Retail & Wholesale industry (3.5 stars).

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286 reviews
1.0
Jan 26, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Easy work if you know 3D

Cons

Terrible management Manager would rather have his employees work 12 - 15 hour days before even considering adjusting the work load Multiple artists are working until past midnight because the manager took on too many jobs and is too afraid to say his team can't handle it Upper management is disconnected from reality If you're younger than 35, they will try and take advantage of you and think you're naive and do anything they tell you without questioning it. If you don't, they threaten you with termination and not being a team player. Upper management will try to guilt trip you with how they work until 3AM as if they aren't getting paid 20x your salary. They don't care about COVID. They forced us to go into the office and were working in the office during the pandemic. Multiple people got COVID working in the office and they did nothing. Management avoided taking a test because then they would have to report it. If you don't fall in line with what their ideal worker bee idea is, they get passive aggressive on you and make for a toxic work environment in order to try and bully you to quit. There's no communication between anyone other than your direct co workers. Upper management hides in an office locked away from everyone or is out and middle management will give you 100 animations to do in less than 3 days and call you a bad team player for point out how unrealistic that expectation is. You can be working on a project for weeks and it won't be until the third week that management will tell you to drop it because they didn't do their due diligence in assuring that all licensors and companies are on board. Which then puts you behind because they suddenly have 2 other projects they need done in 2 weeks. Again, your management will take these jobs with zero knowledge of the workload and just tell you to work 75 hour weeks and weekends. No consideration for you having a healthy work life balance. Refuses to contact you through written form because then it would be documented. They will call you before you clock in and after you clock out. They don't want an employee, they want a 24/7 on call slave. Pay is trash. $53k / year anywhere in California is pennies, let alone in the city. Good luck finding a place to live when you get paid $3k a month. I get paid more doing Doordash. They'll also tell you to move within reasonable distance of the office and give you a weekend to find an apartment and move all while having you work their 8 (more like 12 - 15) hour days.

1.0
Jan 10, 2022

Not fun anymore

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The people and the licenses.

Cons

It was fun with it was a small company, but they grew too fast and it was clear that management was not cut out for their new found responsibilities. This led nepotism, general favouritism, and sexism, with a toxic high school mentality and a huge wave gap. Deadlines are insane, you're not allowed to with overtime - just expected to cram 50 hours of work in a 40 hour work week. If you bring up any issues or feedback, you will be gaslit into thinking you're ungrateful and be ostracized by management. They don't care about any disabilities of their workers or their well-being. Really sad because they have what it takes to be a great company, they even once were. But since going public, it's gone downhill fast. This job gave me extreme anxiety. When in office, they would hold meetings the day someone was let go to announce to everyone, airing out all their "wrongdoings". Some of these people were let go without even a warning or the awareness that they had done something wrong. I would not recommend until there's been a major overhaul in leadership and management.

1.0
Jul 19, 2018

It's Not Just "Growing Pains"

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Talented people, wonderful coworkers. Leadership is starting to realize what a terrible environment they've created, and they seem to be trying to change it.

Cons

Management is still awful. Their greedy, title-driven egos are truly appalling. There's a recent effort to turn things around, but their commitment to it is surface-level at best. The environment is unwelcoming, invalidating, and if I'm honest, abusive. Communication is abysmal, and there is zero accountability. Favoritism is still rampant, and turnover is high. Overall, leadership is not friendly to women, minorities, or anyone with a differing opinion. As other reviewers have said, there are no real deadlines, everything is needed immediately, and it creates such a stressful environment that if you didn't already have generalized anxiety, you may likely develop it. This isn't just growing pains, this is willful ignorance of standard professional behavior. Senior leadership is actively resistant to process and research-based decision-making. Also, I tried drinking their kool-aid and it just made me sick. :(

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