Sony Electronics Reviews

Pros

Company with global brand name. It's definitely a boost to your resume to have Sony listed as an employer.

Cons

Class system between SEL employees and contractors. To much politics, bureaucracy and CYA going around instead of actually working. No communication between departments and no real work-life balance, even if they claim to do it.

Advice to Senior Management

Cut down on your contractors, you "train" them for a year and then send off to be hired by competitors. You are bleeding out top talent which costs you (Sony) more money because when you bring in a new guy or gal to fill the position left by the previous contractor it takes them 2-3 months to fully assimilate into the positions responsibilities.

Pros

Good exposure to various job areas : - the management is encouraging towards staff's desire to try out new job scope.
Nice colleagues : pretty flat hierarchy, like family

Cons

Limited room of career growth as management level is still pretty much Japanese.

Pros

decent pay, great benefits, cool products, the location is good for those in North County SD. reasonable expectations of employees,

Cons

management is often more interested in itself instead of your career improvement. It has taken a while to move up.

Advice to Senior Management

would be nice if there were more incentive to be an advocate of the company. HR should be more active in ensuring employees are not stagnant.

Pros

Good Learning Experience and challenging roles.

Cons

Short term career prospects are more than long term.

Pros

Great people, interesting work, great benefits

Cons

Frequent management changes, slow decision making

Advice to Senior Management

Respond to the market more quickly, less management by committee

Pros

The location is good and schedules are easy to deal with.
Ok pay
Very good benefit
Good people to work with

Cons

Location was shut down and everyone was laid off.

Pros

Great brand
Cool products
Great place to build experience

Cons

It is expected that you work beyond the 9-5
No career path guidance
Hard to move around within company
It's not what you know, but who you know

Pros

Good people, decent compensation, excellent benefits.

Cons

Too political, too inwardly focused, needs to understand the end consumer better

Advice to Senior Management

Focus on the customer and your people.

Pros

Highly innovative company with new challenges every day.
Get chance to work with some of highly talented engineers.
Work with future technology.

Cons

Mostly research oriented work.
Very slow decision making process.
Communication with Japanese team will be little challenging.
Sometimes it is frustrating to see your project not getting released due to management decision.

Advice to Senior Management

Should concentrate on some core products and excel in it.

Pros

Your co-workers, great managers, and level of support you receive from both management and corporate.

Cons

Retail can be a pain at times but remember, you are paying your dues and so it is expected.

Advice to Senior Management

Not a good sign when your retail sales reps are more knowledgeable about the products than management from corporate office.