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Samsung Electronics

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Samsung Electronics reviews

3.7

65% would recommend to a friend

(12,905 total reviews)
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Jong Hee Han

62% approve of CEO

54% positive business outlook

Samsung Electronics has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 12,905 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
4.0
Apr 1, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Relatively good salary/remuleration/treatment comparing other Korean companies. The company is still not familiar with foreign workers, but changing fastly. It has several famous foreign executive people. Has more advanced, globalized management style and culture. Working in Samsung can give you further job opportunities IN KOREA.

Cons

Life in Korea is kind of question mark. Seoul is fantastic city, which is really dynamic and convenient, however life in Seoul is very emulous. Koreans tend to focus more on work than family; they usually over work, and even drinking after work with team is considered as a part of work. In this point, Samsung is not an exception. Raising kids is difficult even for Koreans; you will see almost every parents pay huge money for additional/private education, since public education system is kind of disaster. (But for foreign workers, I think Samsung will take care of this.) Historically Korea is very homogenous, so sometimes you can see religious/cultural/racial discriminations; not in company but in your social life. Difference between Seoul area and other cities is big; other areas far from Seoul is quite bored. All culture, industry, conveniences is concentrated in Seoul area.

1.0
Mar 29, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

-Benefits are very good: cost and coverage is best in class. -Pay is fair. -There is no time to be bored -Great brand recognition -Produces good technology/product

Cons

-It is a Korean company: poor communication from management; employees are treated poorly, especially if you are not Korean; complete disregard for US business practices; you will often be told that Americans are dumb and lazy; excessively long hours; mangement makes busy work (insane reporting of excrutiating detail); everything is a last minute fire drill and half-baked, there is no planning; manage by instilling fear in employees -Most of US management is young and never really had any true leadership experience. So, there is no leadership anywhere, just lots of micromanagement. The lack of leadership depth produces a rude, disrespectful environment. But they all look "pretty". -The systems and tools employees have to do their jobs is unacceptable for a Global company as big as Samsung.

1.0
Mar 26, 2013

Poor work ethics

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

A big name in one's sume for life,

Cons

A lot, starting with the general culture of fear that has been so deeply rooted now that people dont really work to satisfy their intellectual appetite, but rather to save their heads, especially manger level onwards.

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