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2.0
Feb 25, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

They are involved with a wonder evolving technology: flash technology. They do have a breadth of customers in USA, Asia, and Europe. Time is somewhat flexible. Some very nice friendly people work here, but see the cons below.

Cons

Very Asian based company which creates some interesting situations in the workplace and with customers. Seems they are not upfront with customers. Frugality is the mode of operation. The conference rooms are folding chairs and tables from Costco. This had driven away some applicants. Seems the technical infrastructure is extremely thin. The equipment used is old and outdated and it takes alot of work to get what is needed to attempt to do a professional job. Project /program management is completely missing from this company. What they call project management is someone filling in excel spreadsheets whenever they have time to do it while doing their real job. Seems they are trying to do things and develop products by throwing a few people at it on a whim rather than planning what product to do, justifying the effort for the product, establishing the manpower, equipment and time needed to appropriately do what is necessary. I get the feeling that competency is low here. Evidence of this can be witnessed during daily intereactions. They have been involved with some really cool products but don;t seem to what what it takes to drive the business and technology forward.

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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
Dec 17, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Only consider SST as a place to work only if there is no other jobs for you in this poor job market.

Cons

SST senior management has very poor skills and leadership. And they encourage a culture of information overload and distrust. They are also very disorganized. The first day at my job, I have no PC and no phone. When I finally got my PC, it was not a laptop as required for a marketing person who travels alot. I also had 86 emails in my Inbox on my first day. SST is a company that judges you performance based on the number of emails you generated (you are copied on ALL emails from everyone, so you get about 300 emails a day), and is a schedule driven company (meaning that meeting the schedule is more important than have a working product). It is not market driven or even engineering driven. SST also loves meetings. You can expect to spend over 80% of your times in meetings, some meetings would start at 9PM at night; most of which are not productive nor effective as decisions are usually pushed to the next meeting. Everyone at SST seems scared to make decision or committments.

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