Canon U.S.A. reviews

3.3

47% would recommend to a friend

(1,365 total reviews)
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Kazuto Ogawa

53% approve of CEO

36% positive business outlook

Canon U.S.A. has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 1,365 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Canon U.S.A. employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.5 stars).

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1.0
Apr 10, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great health benefits, new facility, parking garage, location close to LIE.

Cons

-Employees are treated like misbehaved children. -There is a petty emphasis on swiping into the building on time -- even if you are 2 seconds late, it will be held against you even if you stay late to make up the time -- which also encourages a lot of "face time" at your desk in order to make anything count. -You must announce your bathroom breaks, lunch, meetings, leaving to communicate with a co-worker who sits a few feet away because upper management does not have enough substantial work and wants every second of your time making them look good accounted for. God forbid you had a weird lunch and are in the bathroom for 10 minutes -- management will want to know where you were. -Upper management is set in their outdated ways and will pretend to acknowledge your innovative ideas, when they really have zero intention of supporting your ideas and will instead support the people above them whom they bend over and do tricks for. -The same formula is applied to every project, task or event and barely any new ideas are used to shake things up. Despite using the same formulaic approach, upper management will somehow forget how to do it right each time. -Employees can be catty, petty and/or incestuous, so be wary of who you associate yourself with. It's like a high school. -It is an uninspiring environment that will dilute your spirit, ideas and enthusiasm where they could be valued and built upon elsewhere. -Hiring practices are somewhat based upon salary requirements, so if you ask for too much, they could reject your consideration even if you are more than qualified. -There is barely any flex time, so god forbid a friend/family member needs your attention, you better get an Academy Award worthy-story to be excused for a bit. -No morale boosting events, acknowledgements -No smoking on campus, even if you are outdoors and far from the building -Promotions based on tenure and not skill-set, which means unqualified employees will benefit and qualified ones will be looked over -No organization within departments, whether it's server content, roles, systems, etc -Cafeteria downstairs is constantly increasing prices in increments that are sometimes advertised and sometimes randomly done without notice.

1.0
Jan 13, 2016

Lose all hope who enter here...

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Good benefits (except compensation) - Good place for an intern to learn what not to do. Gain experience and leave. - Looks good on a resume; at least for now. - If you are an average performer, want to do the same menial job day after day this is the place for you.

Cons

- Too much emphasis placed on arrival and departure times. - Not much room for advancement as all upper management positions are filled my Japanese expats. Expats are rotated through as their expiration date is due and they are replaced with another expat. - Continual rotation of expats leads to constant retraining, leading to mistakes, and misunderstandings of American business. - If you're an exempt employee, you're really not. If you work weekends, extra hours, and holidays do not expect to get any type of compensation time. - Japanese mistrust of all Americans. This comes from the top down. - At review time, numbers and assessments are brought down depending on how much is available for merit increases.

3.0
Dec 8, 2015

Manager

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Job stability. Multicultural working environment. Modern headquarters.

Cons

Blatent favoritism to Japanese. I am an American Manager, sometimes Japanese staff are invited to "Japanese only" discussions and know future initiatives before I do. There is an impression some jobs are only open to Japanese expats.

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