Future Electronics Reviews

Former Employee – worked at Future Electronics

Pros – Great training in business, great opportunity to develop your own customer relations and test sales techniques. Good IT and business systems.

Cons – No room for advancement, Disposable attitude from Senior management towards the field sales group. Top down information flow no comments from field are tolerated.

Advice to Senior Management – Either praise the field for their diligent work or migrate to an internet sales model.

Former Employee – worked at Future Electronics full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Great cafe, free gym, great people

Cons – Having to clock in and out makes you feel like you are working in a factory

Advice to Senior Management – Too many layers of management makes decision making very difficult. D'ont be afraid to empower your employees and let them make decisions

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Future Electronics full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Very IT-focused, lots of potential to dominate competition with information technology as leverage. Can tell management is trying hard to look at facts/statistics to back up their actions as opposed to just going with intuition, Moneyball-style, which is great. It reduces politicking to a certain extent, and does give a sense of fairness to decisions made.

Cons – Operationally information technology doesn't really work very well yet. Strategic needs just don't seem to be aligned closely enough with tactical and operational needs (and this disparity seems to be ignored by IT) and this causes quite a lot of frustration at the lower levels. The Asia (and perhaps Europe) teams also seem to get the shorter end of the stick when it comes to IT support and "ears", though it's just about adequate for most purposes.

Recently the strong emphasis on Marketing and Sales teams to produce reports to back up their numbers does seem to interfere with the Sales and Marketing teams to come up with the numbers--it takes up too much time, with IT reporting abilities seemingly unable to catch up.

Statistics are great, but they are sometimes taken at face value without taking into consideration the context in which they are based on. It is assumed that all branches work the same throughout the world, and that productivity numbers assumed correct for one region are exactly the same in another. I've got nothing to back this up, but my guess is that different ways of working might require modifications (even if slight) to how the numbers are interpreted.

Advice to Senior Management – Recognise profit/revenue-maximising actions, not outcomes. If a branch/department/employee doesn't hit budget, as long as all the decisions and actions taken leading up the the dissatisfactory outcome were the "correct/best" actions at that point in time, then the outcome shouldn't be penalised even if the actions aren't rewarded (not reward perhaps as to "keep the peace" and not let entities with better outcomes feel cheated).

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Future Electronics full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Learn teamwork skills, how to deal with people (customers, co-workers, manufacturer reps).
Company has a good reputation in the local market.

Cons – Not many opportunities to grow. No commission for sales, no commission for overtime work.
Very stressful. Focus on Marketing, no focus on Sales. Unrealistic goals with no regards for the actual market situation.

Advice to Senior Management – Listen to Sales team and believe them. They probably know much more about what is possible and what's not.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Future Electronics

Pros – if you can get to the management level, you will get better opportunities to know the strategies.

Cons – 8hours + 1 hour lunch time

Current Employee – been working at Future Electronics

Pros – Learn to work effectively and communicate with coworkers

Cons – sometime can be really stressful

Current Employee – been working at Future Electronics

Pros – best place to work,company is flexible,proactive and strong.
the owner is a visionary,he knows what the customers needs in the future

Cons – company is strong but too much haevy as a structures.
company is marketing driver instead of sales driver and sometime you can have conflict with the customer related to the pricing,moq.

Advice to Senior Management – be flebile,listen sales people and belive in them.
marketing events for customer are really appreciate.

Current Employee – been working at Future Electronics

Pros – Team Work & Support best in industry

Cons – Not much individual career growth

Advice to Senior Management – Package revise

Current Employee – been working at Future Electronics

Pros – good pay
good people
they teach you everything you need to know

Cons – no matter what you do it is not enough
middle management is affraid to say anything to upper management

Advice to Senior Management – do what you say, say what you do

Current Employee – been working at Future Electronics

Pros – great training, investment in people, working atmosphere, great people, very social where you can make life long friendships

Cons – hours longer than elsewhere, limited flexibility, renumeration is not always in line with high expectations laid upon employees

Advice to Senior Management – concentrate more on staff retention

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend