Hitachi Data Systems Reviews

Former Employee – worked at Hitachi Data Systems full-time for more than a year

Pros – They allowed their employees autonomy while giving them the tools to do their job.

Cons – None I can think of. Would consider working for them again.

Advice to Senior Management – None. Continue trusting in your workers.

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

Former Employee – worked at Hitachi Data Systems full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Hitachi Data Systems work on latest enterprise portal technologies and pretty laid back. Pretty good bonus and they are consistent with the bonus every year. They also provide lots of training and we can learn a lot.

Cons – Very laid back and very bureaucratic.. the management is not good. Projects are always delayed and some times employees end up doing very little and consultants are hired to do the same.

Current Employee – been working at Hitachi Data Systems full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Good benefits
Good products
They are flexible in work schedule and working remote

Cons – Raises are terrible - the only way to get paid a good salary is to come in with a lot of experience. once you are there for a long time you salary will barely increase
Japanese are difficult to work with
Politics are very thick - hard to get anything done, multiple groups working against each other and duplicating effort
For such a large company you have to work startup hours

Advice to Senior Management – Listen to employees more

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Hitachi Data Systems

Pros – All of this is applicable When cloud computing project started
- a good place to learn
- various good developement and testing practices
- reaward for good work
- work and life balance

Cons – things started going down the hill when new VP of Engineering was hired
- bad management (hire and fire attitude)
- negative competition enforced in the team
- Unexperienced management team
- No resepect for team members

Advice to Senior Management – Instead of experimenting with the team structure all the time, hire correct people. Competition is good in the team but anything too much and negative is the reason most of the 'original' people left the company. Respect people for their work and not for their gender.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Hitachi Data Systems full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Great place to start your career. Amazing Hardware products & well-known in the industry. Good work/life balance. Amazing Gym.

Cons – Few Software teams. Less room for growth. False promises.

Advice to Senior Management – Have 360 degree reviews. Push young talent to excel. Have competitions to promote ideas. Hire managers carefully.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Hitachi Data Systems full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – i get a paycheck better than unemployed.

Cons – no payraises. work life balance is terrible. I was acutally told that i had to check email and have my phone with me while on vacation no exceptions.In my jos i am REQUIRED to work virtually EVERYDAY. I will leave as soon as i can,

Advice to Senior Management – Treat people as though they matter and give internal candidates the opportunity to move up instead of move out. they only way to move up in your career is to leave HDS.
Ditch the quota based review system as you can only have certain %'s of employees rated highly.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Hitachi Data Systems full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – Very flexible work environment. OK to work from home or set your schedule as long as work gets done.

Cons – Employee managers are god awful. No people management skills. Only concern is sucking up to their bosses. Annual review process has little to do with your work and results are pre-determined by senior managers, so actual manager has little input except to deliver the bad news to the employee. Why a best place to work? Pay is okay. Work flexibility is great, and you see top management one or two days per month. Also, lousy travel and expense reimbursement policies - four levels of approvals to make a $200 down and back trip to another office.

Advice to Senior Management – Clean house of the low management. Promote them out of the company. Scrap the review process and replace it with something meaningful and accurate because the current system is neither!

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

Current Employee – been working at Hitachi Data Systems full-time

Pros – Good culture, jerks don't last, decent benefits...

Cons – Tough to get paid what you are worth - always looking for a bargain except top level execs. More an HR issue than anything else - Managers hands are often tied...

Advice to Senior Management – Loosen up and pay your top people - don't make us threaten to quit before giving a raise - BAD way to run a company...

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Hitachi Data Systems full-time for more than a year

Pros – My immediate manager and their peers are very professional, and even-keeled. Third level management (for my division, based in the UK) are nice enough. My team members are all pleasant, competent, and helpful. There doesn't seem to be any of the back-biting I've seen at some places.

Cons – Although the UK based management are nice, they seem to be a tad out of touch with the "cube dwellers" here in the US. It could be attributed to a difference in cultures -- after all, Silicon Valley Engineers can be a touch..... "out there".
There have been some recent grumblings of discontent and several engineers have left due to dissatisfaction with recent executive project decisions. To be fair however, I feel management is putting forth a concerted effort to reverse the attrition.

Advice to Senior Management – Continue your efforts to retain good people as the Valley's job market for engineers seems to be heating up. I'm not one to advocate that employees be coddled, but when folks feel their efforts are wasted they'll look for a place where they are appreciated. That lead to a lot of lost productivity and re-invention of the wheel.

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

Former Employee – worked at Hitachi Data Systems full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – co-workers are nice and friendly

Cons – top management not care about employees

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