Panasonic reviews

3.6

62% would recommend to a friend

(4,015 total reviews)

Yuki Kusumi

83% approve of CEO

47% positive business outlook

Panasonic has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 4,015 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Panasonic employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Produktion industry (3.5 stars).

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4K reviews
1.0
Apr 30, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

They match your 401k contributions up to 8%.

Cons

I've never been as happy to see a company disappear in the rear-view mirror as I am with PAC. Working here has been a real low-point in my career and life due to the quality of people I was forced to follow. Management in Lake Forest is a literal joke; very few supervisors are respected and managers and directors might as well be on the moon for all they contribute to the daily grind. In the last two years, they couldn't even figure out how to fix or alleviate the awful parking and bathroom situations. In fact, every inexplicable action taken simply put more burden on workers. After removing all the cubicles and sticking employees together elbow-to-elbow at long tables, we all started catching colds and getting sick more often. (In retrospect, another preeminently bad decision by executives.) In return, raises were cancelled and cute little music videos started appearing on the internal Yammer site, claiming we were all part of one big family and promoting solidarity. It was laughable; they simply couldn't do anything right to turn the morale ship around. The recent layoffs were handled with typical inelegance; no phone calls, emails or handshakes - just a mass Teams meeting with access cut off for an encore. Panasonic tried so hard to create the illusion of a positive culture but it was like watching the Flex tape guy invite you into his boat - you just knew that the whole thing was bound to come apart sooner rather than later, driven by maniacs (or in this case, idiots). #ONETEAM

1.0
May 10, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Health insurance was nice and 401k matching

Cons

Where do I start? -Place is a sinking ship. Don’t believe me? See all those jobs open? It’s cause others have quit. -Execs leaving after a few months on the job. - other execs getting pushed out because of politics and turf building -Employees getting fired for made up reasons. If a manager doesn’t like you, they make up reasons like “non-compliant” and fire you. HR doesn’t even question it nor protects employees. Just google “cokinectic” where a Panasonic employee whistle blew and got fired. That’s illegal but Panasonic didn’t care. - inept management. Never in my life have I ever seen management so ineffective and clueless - company just uses “compliance” as an excuse to add more bureaucracy and paperwork to your job - company is left with lifers who have worked there for 10 years while technology left them behind

1.0
Apr 1, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

You’ll come across some really smart unique people and fun projects. This company is not appropriately positioned to handle the challenges of COVID-19...

Cons

...But make no mistake; long before COVID-19 wreaked havoc on the airlines industry, this company was already nosediving. Internal politics reign supreme while the real challenges facing this company are all ignored. Favoritism despite even clear lack of results or ability to get things done right is the modus operandi here at PAC. HR does not properly vet their talent. It’s really not uncommon to find people unfit for their roles and without any proper experience or let alone a college degree. How’s that for a pipeline! Procurement manages suppliers and parts but has no knowledge whatsoever about the supplier or parts. Finance will continue to slash the budget for key areas and key projects, but will continue to use that savings to fund their own failed pet projects and increase their teams. Our newly minted do-nothing Chief Culture Officer seems to have made the right friends. Changing conference room names will surely steer this company in the right direction! The Office of Ethics and Compliance really should be called the Office of just Appeasing the Monitors. Engineers that actually know what they are doing are now ignored and even dispensable in the name of constant political infighting from our leadership, which btw is now lead by someone who’s former experience is not engineering but quality assurance. Such a sad reality now.

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