Samsung Research America Reviews

Pros

Samsung Electronics Ranks 6th in Interbrand’s Best Global Brands 2019. It's a well known and respected company. A lot of news are coming from Samsung. In a several innovation areas it leads Apple. Apple and everybody else use a lot of Samsung components in their products.

Cons

This is a Korean company with no US stocks. So Total Compensation suffers a lot because of this.

Pros

Huge perks. Amazing Culture. Love it everyday. Great managers. Wonderful research opportunities.

Cons

Can not think of any.

Pros

Engineers have great freedom in their daily technical work and the technology is exciting. They really support doing innovative research and make it a real part of your measured performance. You can learn a lot and grow your technical skills here up to a point. No pre-commit code review. Managers do not to micromanage.

Cons

Toxic: A climate of fear prevails. The management is highly unstable and untrustworthy. All decisions are made solely based on political considerations. Managers make promises they know they can not keep, steal ideas and credit, and undermine each other in a zero sum game of musical chairs. The problem is long past 1 or 2 bad individuals. Unrewarding: Nothing ever has any impact or ever gets used by Samsung Customers. You will not receive credit for the good work you do. It will be stolen or left unappreciated. If you were robbed, betrayed, or fooled by any dirty tricks they consider that your own fault for not being capable. Bad behavior is rarely punished as the bad manager shifts the blame to some other (probably bad) manager. Viewed as Overpaid Cog: A large share of the workers are on sponsored visas and this unbalanced power dynamic is being abused by the managers. Even if you are not held hostage to a visa they will treat you poorly because they can and will replace you with a cheaper visa worker. Or they will send the entire project overseas to a country with an entire team of cheaper workers. Siloed: There is no shared code base or data warehouse. Everything is highly siloed down to the lowest level. That includes individual contributors. Underpaid: While the cash portion of their compensation is not bad, since they have no RSUs you will make much less here. And they still believe they are paying you too much for work that can be done in their Chinese offices by workers who will work twice your hours. Unstable: Since the management is unstable you will work on many different things but will need to fight to pursue any of them in depth. Specialization is difficult here.

Pros

Brand name, good pay and benefits and work life balance

Cons

Poor management, top-down approach and a poor corporate culture

Pros

Healthcare and 401k benefits are okay but no stock options.

Cons

There are dirty politics all over. Management is incompetent. Promotions and rewards are unfair and biased.

Pros

Nothing really, benefits seems better but they do not offer stocks. Even if Samsung stocks doubles you dont get anything.

Cons

It is a hostile environment to work. Constantly changing focus, they call this agile but dont have any idea what is agile. Terrible management without vision. I wish I could give -5.

Pros

Nice campus and subsidized food

Cons

Pretty much everything. People who have no clue about technology, no business acumen will be micromanaging you work Leadership executes orders from Korea with out using any own judgement No concept of career growth do not waste your time here