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
2.0
Jun 3, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

I don't think there are any if you are an experienced professional who is used to being treated as such. The last few years have been a real eye opener. At the simplest level of providing parking, restrooms, decent work areas, meeting areas, PAC can't even get that right or anywhere near it. Typical 401k match, medical is decent not great, comp is seriously low and they know it but for some reason think they are some upper echelon employer where people are lining up (new grads might be). Bonus is totally up to your manager and has reached an all time low so zero confidence you'll get one and my forecast is you won't. please look at your work environment before you sign on, ask where will I sit, what would a typical day look like, check parking, bathrooms, etc... its funny those are the things (basic) that I have to write about. The people who built the company, those are the experts and the pro's to the company I have only once worked with people so bright. I also wonder sometimes how people who are so bright put up with the conditions at PAC. I do not joke when I tell you that prisoners have more space and privacy.

Cons

Management - Exec, typical is 7 layers of mgmt above actual IC's. Compliance working conditions (lunch bench workspaces, minimal meeting spaces) you are lucky to work here mentality. Silos, even more silos. Extreme turnover with layoffs looming in the future, if not now according to their job posting for an HR expert in handling RIFs, though they probably misworded that posting according to HR. Typical response to questions from all hands (over the years) is "we are investigating that, and looking into that... for years they have been investigating and looking into that." nothing ever done. not even sure they changed the water filters in the fridge. break rooms and accomodations are a joke. typical wait times for bio breaks are bad as there are only 4 toilets per building and hundreds of employees. not uncommon to leave the campus to use a bathroom at a fast food place in lake forest. No WFH policy and actually pretty against it.

1.0
May 2, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Health Benefits are great. You do work with some good people.

Cons

As everyone is stating, re-org has been happening but it's been going on for 2 years and they still don't have any direction. New CEO, new executives (which some are already leaving even though they got hired by their executive friends, yeah, that bad), culture shot to heck, and it is a sinking ship. Since the re-org is so unclear and has been shifted several times, internally everyone is fighting each other. No one understands the new process as there is a mountain of forms to fill out now but no one actually understands them. Open floor plan, yeah, it sucks. You can hear your neighbor whispering. Forget having a call with vendor or client because you need to find a corner to have some silence and privacy. Appointed was a 'Culture Officer' to make sure to keep motivation high during the re-org...all she did is rename our meeting rooms to outrageous names and passed out cookies. It used to be great, it really was, now I won't recommend this place to a single person.

1.0
Apr 10, 2020

Worst place to work, no real leadership!

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good pay is the only good thing at this company

Cons

Everything from hostile work environment, long hours, silos, never promotes within, too many managers, not enough workers to actually do the job, executive management doesn't care about their employees, management is totally disconnected from employees point of view and experiences, worst place I've ever worked.

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