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Samsung Electronics

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Samsung Electronics reviews

3.7

64% would recommend to a friend

(12,879 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 12,879 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
2.0
Apr 22, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Samsung Electronics is the worldwide leader in the consumer electronics market, working in a company with such credential is very attractive in terms of what you can expect to learn or the specific weight it can ad to your resume. Unfortunately, this kind of things are useful only if you plan to stay in the company for a few years and then get a job somewhere else. Other employers are confident that a former Samsung's employee has a lot of experience within a leading multinational company.

Cons

Top management positions, career development, important promotions are reserved only for Koreans, so if you are a local employee your chances to receive recognition for your job and evolve within the company are extremely low. All decisions appear to be made in close environments reserved for Korean staff, local employees don't get the chance to participate or expose opinions to management levels. After some decision is taken, Korean in charge communicate to the rest of employees with a "don't ask questions and follow orders" kind of speech. Employees who have to deal with customers or suppliers (sales account reps or managers, marketers, etc) find themselves in the middle of endless discussions or negotiations that don't go anywhere, serving only as translators or messengers, because Koreans always have the power of decision making and most of the time they don't make any decision, and if they do it is impossible for local staff to participate in the process and they only receive directions. Sometimes customers have the feeling that they are being fooled or cheated by Koreans because they don't keep to their words or just let the time pass without making any decision expecting the issue to be forgotten by the other part.

2.0
Mar 24, 2009

Some changes are still needed

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Once you get to a higher rank within the company, the compensation package can be satisfactory.

Cons

The company's hierarchy unfortunately doesn't allow any flexibility and the corporate culture is very rigid.

4.0
Mar 16, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

It's a good company to work for. You can see the enthusiasm of engineers for the new product development. I've always admired the speed how fast they have developed their products and put products in the market. You're also working with intelligent people, so there's always an opportunity to learn from them. You can wear whatever you like and company encourages to hang out with co-workers after work.

Cons

The hours were fairly long. Don't get me wrong. I love to work as much as the next person, however, at some point and time there has to be a balance between work and the home life.

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