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    Samsung Electronics Reviews

    Updated December 12, 2018
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    Samsung Electronics CEO Ki Nam Kim
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    Pros

    • "The company is trying to change its culture more fitting to younger generation and to give work-life balance to the employees" (in 80 reviews)

    • "Good company with quite good salary" (in 232 reviews)

    Cons

    • "Working Culture like work life balance" (in 389 reviews)

    • "redundant work, long working hours" (in 137 reviews)

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    1. "Good place for experience"

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      Former Employee - Florist in Cincinnati, OH
      Former Employee - Florist in Cincinnati, OH
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook

      I worked at Samsung Electronics full-time (Less than a year)

      Pros

      The management will listen to concerns and try to help you figure out your own solution, encouraging thinking outside the box and taking the lead.

      Cons

      Retail work schedules are always a pain anywhere you go.

      Advice to Management

      Don't stop listening to the employees that work under you, they will usually have the best understanding of how the company is being ran and the good and the bad that come with that. The best ideas can come from the foot soldiers, out there working with the product and customers every day.

    2. "Senior Software Engineer"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Recommends

      I have been working at Samsung Electronics full-time

      Pros

      good salary
      nice foods
      anual profit share

      Cons

      strict for security
      work and life balance is poor

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    3. "Samsung"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee

      Pros

      High salary, and nice people around

      Cons

      pressure, less work-life balance compared to other companies

    4. "Designer"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee in Mountain View, CA
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee in Mountain View, CA

      I worked at Samsung Electronics full-time

      Pros

      Good salary and good team

      Cons

      must of work are POCs

    5. "Intern"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook

      Pros

      Great Benefits and Exciting Projects

      Cons

      Bad Housing options for interns.

    6. "Generally good"

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      Former Employee - Engineer
      Former Employee - Engineer
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I worked at Samsung Electronics (Less than a year)

      Pros

      Good insurance benefit and good environment.

      Cons

      Always busy. Be prepared to work hard

    7. "A bizzare and odd company to work for..."

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Doesn't Recommend
      Negative Outlook
      Disapproves of CEO

      I have been working at Samsung Electronics full-time

      Pros

      The gym is fantastic and they have great trainers. They also provide free lunch at the cafeteria and the food is not bad!

      Cons

      All the strategic direction and decisions come from the Korean headquarters; and unless you are Korean, you are treated like a second-class citizen and your ideas and contributions are not be valued. There is very little transparency and sharing of information within the company. They have no idea how to “collaborate” or “innovate”. Majority of senior executives are from Korea and they are quite rude, disrespectful and raise their voices. HR is unable to shift the culture of the company so that a company that has offices and presence in the US adheres to US values and professionalism in the workplace. Women especially are treated badly as Koreans are quite chauvinistic and expect everyone to bow to them - literally. Despite its new building in San Jose, Samsung is a rotten company!

      Advice to Management

      You can't run the company as though you are still in Korea. Need to learn and understand the US corporate culture and adapt.

    8. "Great Place to Work"

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      Current Employee - Director in New York, NY
      Current Employee - Director in New York, NY
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at Samsung Electronics (Less than a year)

      Pros

      Good place to work for.

      Cons

      I cant think of any.

    9. "Great place to just settle in peacefully, but not so much to learn"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Doesn't Recommend
      Positive Outlook
      Disapproves of CEO

      Pros

      Very good compensation as well as housing benefits

      Cons

      Highly rigid structure and difficult to switch teams.

    10. Helpful (1)

      "Nothing good in this company"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Doesn't Recommend
      Negative Outlook
      Disapproves of CEO

      I have been working at Samsung Electronics full-time (More than 3 years)

      Pros

      The benefit is above average in the Bay Area.

      Cons

      The upper management team does not appreciate your hard work and the contribution you made. The weird Korean culture makes them think employees shall appreciate the opportunity they get from the company no matter what it is. Individual contributors have to deal with politics a lot. The HR team is another chaos. They are not there to help employees solve problems but to make things more complicated and worse. Every one in the management team is busy with politics, nobody cares about the technology and business.