Panasonic reviews

They expect you to work for long hours with very low pay. They just pay S$9 per hour for over-time and you are expected to stay back till 9pm or 10pm. The office hours is from 8am to 5.30pm. Sometimes, you are required to come during Saturday and Sunday. It is better not to come on any weekend. Once you tell that you can come on one weekend, you will be asked to come every weekend. The working hours are not that flexible. If you are late for just even 1 second, they will deduct your salary. Every morning, every one is supposed to sing the company song. Then, depending on the group you are in, some group managers expect the employees to tell what they plan to do in a day. You can't have nothing to say. If you have nothing to say, it will give bad impression to the manager (especially software group). This will affect your review. Besides, you are not expected to say the same thing every morning. If you do that, the manager will ask you when you are going to finish you job. Every Friday, you are expected to write in a weekly report, telling what you have done in the whole week. This is kind of getting monitored all the while. The so-called "Adviser" of the software group keeps saying that if you have doubt on something, you can seek advice from him. When you really seek advice, he will ask what you plan to do. Ridiculous, huh? If you never hear of a software general manager who doesn't know software, you can find in this company. The software so-called GM never side to the local employees. He sides Japan very much more than anything. If Japan says one thing, he dares not confront. In the end, it is the Singapore software group to suffer. One of the colleagues' wife had internal bleeding due to pregnancy, he asked for leave. The software GM disallowed him to take leave. Is this human?? Secondly, it is the management side. They keep saying that they have no money for our increment and bonus. Yet, you can see the Japanese "Advisers", who are stationed here, are given a car each and a condominium each to stay with their families. When some colleagues are to stationed in Singapore for a few days, they are asked to stay in a hotel which costs less than S$100 per night. You can imagine what kind of hotel that is. When some Japanese are sent to work in Singapore for a few days, they are offered 5-star hotel in the city. Can you imagine how terrible this company is. Yet, our increment is S$10 to S$30 per year. That is less than 1% of slightly more than 1%. If you compare to the inflation rate, you will become poorer and poorer as you work for many years in this company. Yet, some Japanese advisers can play the "rich-people game", GOLF. The software adviser, when has nothhing to do, will practise the skill in front of the employees. Besides, you are given only 2 uniforms and are expected to wear for 5 days. Terrible... They become richer and richer and you will become poorer and poorer slaves forever. If you like this kind of company, Panasonic AV Networks Singapore is a place for you. To me, it is little bit better than hell.

Some of the downsides include insuficient people and equipment resources, which cause erratic project management and frustations, including a "put-out-the-fire" mentality. What project has the most visibility will get the most resources, leaving lower priority projects dangling until that projects priority changes.