Panasonic reviews

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.

Salary and career advancement options are average or below average. About the only way to get a promotion is when somebody leaves the company, so oftentimes you get the higher level workload and responsibilities long before you are rewarded with the higher level job title and pay. I'd also say morale is generally poor, but in this economy people are just grateful to be employed. Still, "just grateful to be employed" is hardly a ringing endorsement.