SmartThings Benefits FAQ

Pros

The people work in here are experts. You are surrounded by extremely smart people. Everyone is friendly, helpful and open minded. There is no competition between colleagues. Everyone is evaluated based on his/her own performance. Packages are wonderful. Ask around and see who can match how much SmartThings pays. No other company can match it! Great health benefits. Great work life balance. Free snacks, beverages and beer in the kitchen. All the things you can imagine are taken care of by the company so you can focus on making positive contributions to the company and write clean and good code. I'm so lucky to join SmartThings. It's definitely greatest opportunity in my career.

Cons

No cons so far. No free parking but you can't complain about that because the location is next to downtown Minneapolis and surrounded by great restaurants and next to Mississippi River.

Pros

- Work with cutting edge cloud technologies and frameworks on a regular basis - Competitive compensation - Great benefits and work-life balance - Friendly, sociable engineering folks

Cons

- Weekly on-call rotations - (sometimes) late night calls with HQ (Samsung) - Very fast pace and product vision isn't always clear cut

Pros

Unlimited pto. Gym at MTV office

Cons

Poorly managed at every level. The people at SmartThings do not have the power to control the items they are assigned and tasked with and Samsung treats you worse than they do Korean employees

Advice to Management

Find jobs elsewhere. Let Samsung absorb the business.