Sony Electronics Reviews

Pros

salary, perks and willingness to improve

Cons

long hours at the work place

Advice to Senior Management

integrate bravia with VAIO

Pros

Competitive hourly wage(for a person without a degree) and decent commissions. really fun to play with the electronics. you learn a lot about selling

Cons

workplace was sometimes unprofessional. it is annoying when people steal your sales. Customers can be annoying and irrational. It's a pretty sweet job as far retail goes though.

Advice to Senior Management

give more commissions. make it so employees can give their own discounts.. everyone does it. just let people negotiate and give them more money when they sell it for more. it will motivate people.

Pros

All aspects were quite good

Cons

Sometimes you have to work long hours

Advice to Senior Management

Be good to your juniors you never know.

Pros

Great people to work with, the pay is okay for retail and the discounts are amazing on certain products and open box items

Cons

Management and corporate support is horrible. No one listens to their employees, store management are led by a more horrible corporate management.

Advice to Senior Management

Listen to your employees and fire the ones who have been doing nothing but saying yes yes yes to everything.

Pros

Great name brand (well, it was), people are friendly and nice.

Cons

Company has made so many bad decisions over the last 5-10 years. Lost their innovative touch. Inflexible. Allowing cultural norms in Japan to ruin their worldwide operations.

Advice to Senior Management

Dump the dead weight in Japan.

Pros

Great Products, amazing campus, current leadership in the United States seems to be making the right proposals for change.

Cons

At a micro (Business Unit) level, Japan influence can be disruptive by creating unnecessary administrative reporting, charge backs, and bureaucracy. Imbalance of human resources between US (to few) and Japan (to many) seems apparent and causes lack of synergy across operations.

Advice to Senior Management

Push back on Japan reporting request and charge back invoicing to individual business units. Try to have more of a "one reporting point" from US to Japan. Focus more energy and efforts on the engineering resources available in San Diego for R&D.

Pros

The brand is stellar and the discounts on electronics will make you everyone's best friend. As a company, we're starting to realize we need to act more in unison and transform into a global operation. Feels like we're starting to turn the corner and a lot of great opportunities are there if you can thrive on the transitional turmoil. I've met many very bright, very motivated people here who all have great ideas on how to improve Sony.

Cons

Decision making is painfully slow and the bureaucracy instituted to control costs are crippling productivity. Some key talent and roles are leaving without backfills being planned, leaving everyone working harder. Senior management not doing a very good job of prioritizing and setting realistic objectives. The goal posts often keep moving, making it impossible to end projects successfully. Current relationship between IT and business can be toxic in groups where the relationship has been strained.

Advice to Senior Management

Set clear direction, make decisions and have a bias towards action. Mean what you say -- stop with the lip service towards action and make something happen.

Pros

Co-workers are really nice, in fact we are like brothers and sisters, managers are very nice, get to play with all the leatest gadgets, great benefits if you can get full time

Cons

almost impossible to become full time, very lowe turn over ratio, so not much room to advance, have to clean the entire store every night, most of al...............pay sucks (work ther 2 years as part time, only made 9 dollars/hour)

Pros

Managers were very good at team management and leadership
Managers who stay out of the way of engineers
Fun people with whom to work
Interesting R&D projects

Cons

This company is on the downslide and seems to be stuck in a very old business model
When attempting to reshape it's future, the company has chosen weak projects that have no marketability and little chance of helping balance it's books
The company wants to compete on a scale with Amazon and Google but makes tragic strategic decisions and has no sense of tactics
While fun to work with the latest hardware toys out of Japan, these are mostly underpowered devices with weak marketability
This company has HUGE communication problems with Japan where the American subsidiary is supposed to come up with the new ideas to help the company going forward and the Japanese headquarters has a very long approval process for any American initiative that is not often approved because of the communications gaps and the cultural differences

Advice to Senior Management

If you're going to save the company, the American side has to start doing projects that are relevant, that build an ecosystem of connected products, and that are suited to facilitate the new world of FB, Google, Apple, and Amazon.

Pros

-Love Electronics
-Can improve my commnucation skills
-Enjoy the campus activities

Cons

-New program, something is not perfect!!!

Advice to Senior Management

Keep moving!!!!!!!