Panasonic reviews

Very incompetent management. This place is highly characterized by BIG favortism. the reason that some directors or managers hold their positions is that they are good freinds of VPs. It has been a well known fact that some management don't do their jobs at all. Some teams have very low moral, high turn over rates., and keeps looking for new hires to fill in the vacancies by people who quit. Then Why keep those dead weeds who sit there doing nothing, but collecting big, fat pay checks? As said, they are friends of some higher-up VPs.

System changes last few years were total chaos and not improve things rather it made work more cumbersome and led to much manual work and stress and pressure and errors Layoffs caused good people to leave and bad ones to be retained-many good employees took packages to flee leaving behind who knows what. Too many dinosaurs and non performing managers escaped many of the cuts. Management afraid of Japanese counterparts and expats working in NJ for set amount of years. Bad employee morale due to constant system and policy changes. Many perks employees once enjoyed have been taken away and making it more impersonal place to work. Japanese expats work to 10PM and later and frown on those who do not do same-though its largely because the later hours are when they contact their homeland due to time zone difference. Factory does not support sales/operations and is constant battle. Budget process is unyielding from direction of Japan HQ and management takes a "stay the course" attitude that runs right into failure of goals and targets because of unrealistic original budgets. Then they get blamed. Japanese think Americans are lazy and thats most likely because many feel the need for a balanced work life and refuse to stay all night.