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Weirdest place I've ever worked - Manager Samsung Electronics America Employee Review

2.0
Nov 6, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Comp/benefits can be decent for the type of work - Opportunity for a title bump if you can get it going in (don't expect it while you're there)

Cons

- Depending on the team, culture can be horrible if you aren't Korean. Many folks just don't want to speak in English or work with non-Koreans. It often felt like being an expat...borderline discriminatory depending on how you view the world. - People spend more time reporting than doing actual meaningful work. Lots of unnecessarily duplication. Can feel like working in the '90s with the surprisingly low-tech working style. - Promotions seem arbitrary and biased towards Koreans in my work circle (but maybe not necessarily in other teams).

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5.0
Jul 10, 2026
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CEO approval
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Pros

Flexible, Fun, Creative, and many benefits

Cons

A little unorganized and hard to communicate

2.0
Jul 9, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Met very smart, talented colleagues - enjoyed working with some of the people on the team, and learned many applicable, valuable technical skills. Some projects provide opportunities to learn new skills and can launch interesting products. The food is good.

Cons

All the previous reviews about the culture are 100% accurate. Overall very poor management and direction from the upper level, which trickles down into the team. Office politics and conflicting direction from HQ, too many meetings just to prove the work is being done, resulting in little to no trust in the US team - constant surveillance, questioning, and general misalignment of objectives. Company culture and team morale is overall quite low, and little recognition and appreciation from management for hardworking teams on the working levels. Also, it doesn’t seem like there is much room to grow, just more work added with little promotional opportunities. ALSO: RTO 5 days in office was unreasonable, had no justification, with no productivity data to show reasoning - seemed to be a rash decision from the HQ side as a form of control and to push people into soft layoffs (Their "Q&A" sessions are just beating around the bush about this specific reasoning).

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