ITOCHU Reviews

Current Employee – been working at ITOCHU full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Lots of variety and exposure to many types of projects. Solid pay and benefits. High level of professionalism and expectations. Demands both broad and deep understanding of your particular market or product. Despite some structural and cultural challenges, there are a lot of great people working here. Company has a unique, "different than the rest" culture.

Cons – Typical, long salary-man hours. Monoculture: recruits too many sports-types from major Japanese universities. Complete lack of vision in upper management. Company values self-sacrifice (self-destruction?) and group-loyalty over individual performance. No job description, so main working-level people have to do EVERYTHING. Company suffocates itself with lots of unnecessary admin and internal reporting. You will only advance in this company if you are Japanese AND male.

Advice to Senior Management – Hire, and empower, a woman and/or foreigner into the upper levels of management.
Empower national staff with more authority. Quit placing linguistically-and-culturally challenged middle-aged Japanese cookie-cutter salary-men into leadership positions overseas.

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

Current Employee – been working at ITOCHU

Pros – Good work ethics and good working environment

Cons – Not permanent as I am working as contractual

Advice to Senior Management – No comment

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at ITOCHU full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – ITOCHU covers a wide range of businesses within each industry vertical be it manufacturing to retail. Investment, Business development, Marketing you name it.

Cons – If you lack a clear vision of what you want to accomplish you will be swamped with opportunities and you might end up being a very generic business person. It is very important to have a clear career plan.

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