Samsung Semiconductor Reviews

Pros

There are a lot of Opportunity and to learn many things
benifits are ok , can have a chance to move other jobs

Cons

Work hours, sometimes need to work vert hard

Advice to Senior Management

be open

Pros

Great employee benefits (health care, 401K)
Nice employer subsidized cafeteria
Stable company with great financial performance

Cons

Poor management with unrealistic workload. Many of the senior management team, including the President, are dispatched from Korea, with a very traditional belive of good workers should work long hours
Poor advancement policy (min. 2 years between promotions), less incentive to perform the best within the first year of promotion
Very Korean-centric cultural
Samsung punishes loyal employees by paying more and giviing better titles to new hires with less experience or lower qualifications

Advice to Senior Management

Review exisiting promotion policy, implment work-life balance, not just talking about it!!!!

Pros

money is good,sometime a chance for good work

Cons

long hours of work,arrogant mangers

Advice to Senior Management

it never changes

Pros

There are so many talented people.
Education system is very good.
Samsung is currently the best emerging company as you know.

Cons

There are weak synergies among the similar groups.
People get quite low salaries.
There are lots of overtime jobs.
There are lots of meetings.

Advice to Senior Management

Reduce the one-sided education.
Please reduce the on-line education.
Please raise the salaries for diligent workers.
Please merge the similar teams among the business groups.

Pros

Challenging tasks were appealing at the time of hiring

Cons

Infra-structure is poor and security is killing employees

Pros

Benefits and bonouses are good.

Cons

Very Korean based and Koreans there have no idea how to treat people even if they think they do.

Advice to Senior Management

HR has no control over Korean employees and they just follow what they want/demand.

Pros

- Good Benefit and Nice Cafe
- Profitable and stable business
- Hard working environment
- Competitive compensation package (Salary, Bonus)

Cons

- Only 10 day vacation for employees during the first 4 years
- No stock incentive plan
- Long hierachical structure and slow promotion in general

Advice to Senior Management

- More transparent on promotion and performance evaluation
- More career development opportunities for employees
- New office furnitures...at least for ergonomic reason

Pros

You gain exposure to cutting edge technologies sometimes,. Also, the brand name helps in your next job. In certain roles, you can get wide international exposure and go on frequent business trips around the world.

Cons

For foreigners, not much growth options. The options for foreigners in roles in Korea are largely limited because of language and culture. Many Koreans would not be comfortable talking in meetings in Korean leave alone report to a non-Korean manager.

Advice to Senior Management

Improve matters for foreigners or give up hiring foreigners. Even the premium programs like the global strategy group is in a way a failure. You will realize this if you talk to people who have spent 4-5 years there.

Pros

good exp as the are the leading semi company in the world so lot of exposure into the semi cond world.

Cons

unique mngmt style, have to get used to the culture

Advice to Senior Management

na

Pros

Samsung Austin Semiconductor has a great group of hard working people who make going to work everyday worth while. Good to see a company that can outsource jobs to the USA.

Cons

If you are afraid of hard work or having to put in lots OT at times you may want to find another company to work for.

Advice to Senior Management

Internal software leaves much to be desired, there is a alot of wasted time due to some of the half-bake systems that are pushed out.