Panasonic reviews

3.6

62% would recommend to a friend

(4,025 total reviews)

Yuki Kusumi

83% approve of CEO

48% positive business outlook

Panasonic has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 4,025 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
5.0
Apr 10, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The benefits (great health insurance, very basic dental, basic vision, good 401K matching) are pretty good, much better than the industry average, the only downside is no pension, but even large companies that used to offer pensions (like Boeing) are no longer offering them to new employees. Overall the culture is good for software developers. Short term hacks that hurt in the long run are discouraged, unnecessary schedule pressure is not applied allowing developers to do quality work. A focus on continuous improvement is part of the culture and this includes occasionally throwing out old systems, and re-architecting them.

Cons

There seems to be some lack of communication across organizations. Some designs may make sense from one point of view but work less than ideally across full integrated systems. Each individual organization seems to have lots of autonomy which empowers them, but it would be nice if there was more cross organization cooperation, so the autonomy could be used more effectively. Expect to have the power to change things your organization is in control of but expect resistance or delays when you have dependencies on other groups.

2.0
Apr 7, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

As of now, market leader in IFE No micro-management Near flexible work hours Unlimited sick days Very difficult to get laid off/fired unless you totally screwed up. Low hiring standard makes it easy to get in, especially for mediocre engineers. Most people are friendly to work with.

Cons

In-flight entertainment systems are becoming less significant as more passengers are bringing their own tablets and laptops which only need Wi-Fi to Internet. Very difficult to move up even a single level and get a descent raise. You have a better chance of getting them outside the company. Employee performance review is horrible and very biased. Even if you did solid job but if your boss doesn't like you then your performance score gets screwed. The company needs to put in 360 and peer reviews for fairness. Full of complacent long timers who like to keep status quo and stopped innovating. Very hard to move laterally within the company.

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