Mattel is STILL stuck in the past (like 1980's past) in terms of the most basic operating practices. Here's an example:
1) Halloween - every Halloween employees get to bring their families in to celebrate. It's really cool and employees go all out in decorating the office. However, to bring your family, you have to download a Microsoft Excel file, print it out, fill in the information, get your manager to sign it, scan it as a PDF, email it to your self, and finally fill out a new form in a 2008 SharePoint system and upload your scanned document.
EVERYTHING is like this! The company is run via Email, Excel spreadsheets, bureaucratic process and stale thinking - don't get me started in the office politics. It takes Mattel over a year to bring a product to market from ideation. Mattel can only fulfill ~60% of customer orders. 4th quarter last year we could only fulfill 60% of what retailers wanted from us leaving a LOT of money on the table. MGO's slogan of What If, Why Not is a great mantra for the company, but nobody knows how to live by that. I've suggested several product ideas to creative teams - the answer: "GREAT IDEA . . . but it will never work because we don't know how 'xyz' function will work in the product. That's an engineering problem that can be solved! How is it What If, Why Not when the people who make the toys can't put their minds together to solve an engineering issue with a product's function. These are toys - not rocket ships.
This why I'm leaving (on my own terms). The new management MGO hired has in turn laid off hundreds of people, replaced overnight by cronies. I get it, new blood to turn the Titanic, but that also means no career growth for those left. My advice: Leave on your own terms before you're replaced to, or if you don't like the fact you'll be in the same seat 5 years from now doing the exact same thing.