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Samsung Electronics

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Samsung Electronics reviews

3.7

64% would recommend to a friend

(12,887 total reviews)
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Jong Hee Han

63% approve of CEO

54% positive business outlook

Samsung Electronics has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 12,887 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Samsung Electronics 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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13K reviews
1.0
Jan 29, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Benefits and pay are highly competitive, (but they have to be based on what is in store for you as an employee.) Well known brand for consumers. (Too bad it doesn't translate to employees or partners)

Cons

The worst company culture I've ever experienced, seen or heard of. You will be worked to the bone. No balance at all. Ever. And forget about any onboarding, development, tools or resources. You will be provided with nothing and expected to navigate the most outrageous hurdles at the same time. Additionally be prepared for toxic people in the masses. Not just one or two.... most. Including leaders and HR. Everyone had been conditioned to back stab, manipulate and tear each other down. And you can't trust HR or ER to do anything about it. There has been sexual harrasment, code of conduct violations and serious discrimination especially against women. HR knows about it and brushes it off. And In some cases they even participate in it. No urgency. No concern. No action. Micromanagement is constant from all levels. You will be handcuffed and expected to run around like a chicken with your head cut off on the least impactful and most meaningless work. Dont expect to enjoy any PTO either. You are always on. Unless you are a low performing dirt bag. Then you will be protected and allowed to make everyone miserable with your terrible attitude all while everyone that is decent and hardworking is expected to do your work. Everyone will try to place blame on Korea but the reality is you just have a cesspool of nasty, inept and terrible people at one place with no accountability.

1.0
Oct 1, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The office looks okay but management have crapped everyone onto 2 floors, leaving the other 2 floors empty. This is painful as the bathroom always smells, fridges always smells with too many lunches cramped in, and there is always a long line at the kitchen, even for bare basics like water as there is only 2 water taps on each floor

Cons

-toxic environment, no one is happy here. Or they start happy and over time they become miserable -all good talent leave once they realise how process-driven everything is and nothing else matters but following Korean processes -bullying -no career progression -you spend 90% of your time doing admin instead of your real job, leaving no time for your real job -bullying management -top-down HQ control -approval path (3 managers minimum needing to sign and approve) needed for everything, even for a notepad and envelopes!! -systems are horrible -laptops and computers are so outdated that they do not work. That is because all the desktops and laptops are 9 years old minimum and need to be thrown out. They use old refurbished parts that are falling apart -approval path is needed for IT Help (that means 3 managers minimum needing to sign and approve before IT can help you with your computer) -procurement will try and fault you even if you do nothing wrong! -management does not care about you, they don't even pretend they do -even if this is a means to an end, everyone looks miserable to be here and are always complaining -high turnover and restructures every 6 months -do not bother, get out while you can.

2.0
Aug 23, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Decent basic pay ,great brand ,make really good equipment. Generous benefits. Strive to innovate. Nice office location

Cons

Aggressive behaviour by management in B2B team, director has no strategy and knee jerks to pressure from above as well as managing down rather than up. Toxic environment. Try and avoid paying commission in B2B by hiking targets as soon as an opportunity is mentioned. SFDC has become the CRM but not properly implemented so requires hours of work each week. Big discrepancy between what is required in pay plan and what leadership want. Culture of panic.

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