Samsung Research America Reviews

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The uncertainty year to year on project funding [from Korea]

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politics, some dirty tricks all the time. if u r working with some people who are not liked by other politician people, u will be toured by these politician people. Politician means some non-engineer people whose jobs are playing politics.

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- user activity monitoring, blocking useful web-content because of security policy and other nice features of "corporate culture". I realized that this is the first time when I don't want to even open my work mac at home to not to compromise myself somehow.
- "Dispatchers" - when someone is looking over my shoulder *how* I'm doing *what* your ordered - this is too much.
- ugly office
- no stocks
- no silicon valley spirit
- I don't see my future here

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no stock and salary is not higher enough

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- Sometimes I wonder why Samsung bothers to keep SRA running because they seem to think all we are is a worthless money pit. Consequently they seem more motivated only to cut costs. They make arbitrary edicts for which we must comply for no reason. Ask why something happens and they'll tell you "HQ said so".
- We try to do work but management seems to want us to work on nothing most days. It makes no sense.
- Almost everything is pointless.
- Low levels of diversity in positions of leadership. (And generally everywhere.)
- Paperwork.
- Patent quotas.
- Good base salary, but you can get better compensation at other companies. Raises are stingy.
- Approach to funding creates incentives leading to inefficiencies. Stingy budgets. Cheap cheap cheap.

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Very non people centric approach, and anything different is smoke and mirrors. They really are looking for what they can suck out of you today. I have certainly witnessed that in my short time here, with myself and others.

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Management plays it cheap against top performing employees who have high work ethics. Mid management cannot tolerate good work ethics, nor the competitive talent. I have worked with a high caliber product manager, well experienced and well qualified, who was thrown under the bus by their utterly unethical leaders. Fault? Highly qualified woman employee, talking the language of competitive advantage, innovation and voice of customers, to incompetent and insecure peers while giving damn to internal politics. This person was treated so badly and was shown the door by misusing her sincerity and trust in human resources. HR has no voice and dances on the music of management, and worst pretends to be in favor of employees. Corporate governance is at total failure, because there is no such thing as corporate governance. Whatever a manager at position of power and politics decides, becomes the HR policy of the day. That's the reason discrimination is flourishing so pitilessly that I hear my peers saying threatening things like 'I will see her outside' and 'throw them out of the door' etc. I loathed when some of my best peers left the company and some were pushed out. It is only the quality of my work that is keeping me here, not sure for how long though. I have to call it a place that has shocked me and often surprises me in all negative ways.

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heavy traffic in MV
Miss holiday party

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Bit more info on Samsung subsidiaries would be nice

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In order to compete with other SV companies, we need to improve our perks.