Samsung Semiconductor Reviews

Pros

Easy to learn the best test technologies. Experience of using the various test equipment vendor.
Can feeling huge company culture. not bad salary.

Cons

Requests me more working. more outputs. did not think about long term projects. did not yet ready to work with foreign employeer due to culture differences.

Advice to Senior Management

I can understand samsung semiconductor is manufacturing company but some times long - term project or development must be needed.

Pros

Focus, aggressiveness, good salary, employee benefits

Cons

Hardwork, sometimes assessment only based on achievement

Advice to Senior Management

Fairness

Pros

good infrastructure and resources to work

Cons

just work !! no time to rest

Advice to Senior Management

need long-term vision

Pros

one of the best electronics companies, reasonable orgnizational culture, cutting edge products, nice people

Cons

workload, some HQ offices are not in Seoul

Pros

One of the world largest semiconductor companies of both research department and fab.
DRAM business is very large and stable, but System LSI business is not stable.

Cons

They have Profit Sharing system, but the process of decision is not opened.
They have some environmental problems at the work place.

Advice to Senior Management

Effectiveness, efficiency and flexibility of organizations and executives of them are insufficient.
Many people doubt the effect of 6-sigma analysis.

Pros

Global help desk helps foreigners with many different issues encountered in Korea for free.
Healthcare, transporation to work, meals are provided to employees for little or free of charge.
Free training courses.

Cons

Still not fully globalized. Discussions are mostly conducted in Korean.
Reports are wrtten in Korean. Managers often cannot speak English.
Not enough empowerment to the junior employees.

Advice to Senior Management

Apply open door policy, so that the top management can connect with junior members.
Less focus on information security and more on empowering employees.

Pros

Just get some experience in Samsung

Cons

salary and too many Korean

Advice to Senior Management

higher salary,more power to local people,less Korean

Pros

Samsung has a good cowork system and IT infra.
I think one of samsung's strength is a employee's passion and responsibility.

Cons

I think Samsung's organization culture is not flexible and effectiveness of work is some low.
Employee were required creative thinking.

Advice to Senior Management

Top management level have a flexible thinking.

Pros

Good company reputation and technologies that they have. I can have many connection working in samsung semi conductor area. I experienced real manufacturing and research.

Cons

It is difficult for everyone to develop their own career since limited opportunity is given to individual in terms of publication and conference attendance.

Advice to Senior Management

It would be great if you can let engineers publish work that they did after passing 1-2 years in mass production

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!!!!