Fujitsu reviews

3.6

66% would recommend to a friend

(6,808 total reviews)
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Takahito Tokita

83% approve of CEO

55% positive business outlook

Fujitsu has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 6,808 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Fujitsu employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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1.0
Oct 12, 2015

Awful... just awful

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

There are very few pros, although many of the staff are friendly and approachable. That is really about it.

Cons

Ridiculously low pay Management who do not listen to their staff 40 minutes allowance a month for toilet breaks Almost every email from management ends in the, now infamous, "Or further action will be taken" Overly punitive management style Breaks are way too short The shift pattern ensures that one never gets enough sleep to actually function as a human being. Boorish management who seem to think that talking loudly somehow earns respect Endless rule changes which staff usually only find out about once receiving "Performance Improvement Plans" or disciplinaries. More concerned with reaching meaningless targets such as "How quickly you can get the user off the phone" rather than actually fixing issues Possibly illegal behaviour designed to make the company look as if it is reaching said targets A culture of dishonesty Cronyism inasmuch as one is only likely to have any career development if one went to school with or, otherwise, know management outside of work A culture of unquestioning obedience where even suggestions which go against management ideas is treated as insubordination A patronising mentality where staff are treated like school children Different rules and behavioural standards from department to department One rule for management and another for staff

1.0
Oct 23, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Pay was good. I was virtual, so I was flying all over the country, racking up frequent flyer miles and hotel points.

Cons

The bottom line is, the people there don't have a clue in how to run a business. I had zero support from my management. FC purchased Rapidigm, where I worked. I scheduled a 3 day weekend to take a short trip with my family. I made sure all my duties were being handled by a superior to me. Over the weekend, disaster struck and my boss told me it was all my fault. I explained that I had turned everything over to a fellow worked, who was senior to me. Turns out this guy lied and told my boss I hadn't turned over anything! I tried to explain to my boss that the superior had lied, but I wasn't believed and my boss didn't care. The next month the practice had a national meeting, and while my name wasn't mentioned, my boss used "MY" screwup as how the company was losing business, and how we can't have idiots working for us! I went to him afterwards in private, and asked him what exactly should I have done different? He said "Just do your f**ing job!" I told him I thought I was, but I could use some constructive feedback and guidance. He said I should know how to do my job, and he then walked away. This was all during the absorbtion of Rapidigm into Fujitsu Consulting. After this particular trip, I was then demoted, and then a few months later, laid off.

2.0
Jun 15, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- PTO policy, you start with 18 days up to 28 when you have been serving for 10+ years, on top of that company closes for 2 weeks on Christmas. - Great company for seniors: many departments look like the star-ship Enterprise at "Star Trek VI: the undiscovered country", just on the verge of retirement. Quite a generous 401K where the company will fund a 3.5% on a DRA, even if you don't contribute... catch 22 is that you need to be there 6 years to have it all vested, great if you are in your mid 50's looking for your last job. - very favorable to veterans, many managers served in the armed forces and will definitely pick a veteran above anyone else - Cubicles are pretty big - Great for women, FNC support all the affirmative action programs, WIN and so forth, very likely you will get hired or promoted over your male counterpars because of it - Great company for managers: pretty much all your job will be making reports for Japan and approving travel reports, the real mid term and strategic decisions are made by the Japanese overloards, very few managers actually have the power to make any significant decission or take any risk - Gym is quite nice, new and cheap plus some trails to run around the campus - Overall very stable, there are many many old timers that have been 15+ or 20+ years in the company - Good internship program, although several interns end up being sons/daughters or brothers/sisters or senior managers - Great company for sales managers, you don't have bonus cap, so theoretically, you could make many thousands in commissions... although sales overall have been going down for years

Cons

- Bureaucracy and politics have a new dimension as not only you have to deal with local management but also report to the real managers: Fujitsu Japan. - Over-reporting, many times I felt like "office space", having to report and explain the same thing to 4-5 different managers, plus the joy of calls with Japan late in the afternoon to go over the same things. - Too "many chiefs for very Indians", the amount of VPs and directors is incredible, although in reality, most directors would be managers in other companies and most VPs would have the equivalent title of Director anywhere else. - 'Good ole boys' company, if you have an old timer buddy from FNC or Nortel that work here, maybe a great place to be, not such a great place if you actually try to bring any kind of idea/method of working and get it implemented and approved throughout all the red tape - Promotions and merit increases are based on who you know and political alliances, otherwise the joke around is that merit increases are "inflation adjustments" - There is no training program for individuals, sometimes there will be a training course, usually given by someone who used to work at FNC and started a training company or is best buddies with one of the VPs, and there will be some high level 1-2 course where 20-30 people will attend, that's all. - Ship is sinking, decreasing sales, increasing amount of lay offs (Pearl River office was just shut down), new products are not selling well at all yet (both HW and SW)

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