Toshiba Reviews

Pros

Great collaboration with colleagues at international locations
Great autonomy and flat organization
Very flexible working hours
Very interesting work

Cons

Promotion was tricky due to the flat organization. After a 4 years it felt like the only avenue to continue progressing professional was leaving.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep doing the right things right: treating your employees with respect and as friends, listening at their opinions, and allowing them to follow their convictions. You should improve giving a clearer career path and more options to professionally grow.

Pros

training was the best part of this job they have good training and can continue to make it better by keeping it up to date

Cons

lack of support they could improve techs not real supportive and the reps dont all work hard enough to hit quota

Advice to Senior Management

nothing really. it is a big company and so not much wil change as you can expect in a big company.

Pros

The company provides great training opportunities.

Cons

Japanese language proficiency is very demanding in work.

Pros

Good benefits, staff gets along great. The co workers help each other. Management tries to leave you alone to do your job with minimal supervision.

Cons

No motivation, minimal support and they make you sign a non-compete in a state that has a right to work status.

Pros

There is free coffee available in the kitchen in our office.
The cubicles are spacious- for now at least.

Cons

Management seems to be incompetent and doesn't share any information. I haven't seen an organization chart for my department in the last 16 months. Refuses to hire anyone. Everyone is overworked. Penny wise pound foolish across the board. The good employees are leaving but the slackers are staying behind. Some excellent employees were terminated for political reasons while others, who are worthless employees, still sit on their thumbs and do nothing all day.

Advice to Senior Management

Stop being cheap. Start being serious about hiring engineers, salespeople, and support personnel. Make worthwhile investments in personnel before it is too late. Our competitors are starting to eat our lunch.

Pros

Great company, get treated very well at Toshiba. Would recommend working at Toshiba compared to all other silicon valley companies.

Cons

big corporation, big HR department which tends to lead to frequent training. Frequent training gets in the way of daily work.

Advice to Senior Management

Cut down on frequent unnecessary training for all employees. Only require training for applicable employees, or make it optional training.

Pros

The name "Toshiba" sounds good

Cons

As an engineer, you can expect to get monotonous work forever. Engineers have been doing the same job there for decades - no one grows within the company, and even the machinists on the floor will tell you that from day one. Engineers last for about 1.5 years on average.

Advice to Senior Management

Move into different industries that will challenge the R&D department to do something new. The same old product is boring. Become employee-oriented so that high-potential college grads actually want to work there.

Pros

Good starting salary, Low pressure

Cons

Incompetent seniors, lack of training.

Advice to Senior Management

Provide proper training, widen oppurtunity for newcomers

Pros

Nice People to work with

Cons

Slow moving and very conservative

Advice to Senior Management

Nice place to work for most people

Pros

Very flexible with regard to work hours. Laid back dress code. Hands on code with unlimited access to software.

Cons

Highly Poisoned Work Environment where "the few" pull strings and where they Relish the opportunity to talk negative about to management. Very high turnover for newbie's.

Advice to Senior Management

You set people up for failure. You let others control you. You show no concern for CDI workers. You need to put work first and politics last.