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Poor Culture - Senior Manager Samsung Electronics America Employee Review

2.0
Dec 13, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

You get access to latest technology

Cons

The culture needs work, employees are often rude to each other and a lot of employees have large egos including executive leaders. Samsung is not a collaborative environment rather everyone tries to throw someone under a bus (this is the attitude of senior leaders as well) Korea wants to take over US operations and is slowly doing so. Leadership says they are fast paced, however, it's more of being fast because everything is late due to poor planning and getting things from Korea late. Further, the company processes of getting approvals to start a project are long making it impossible to be fast. PTO needs work, you start with 20 days including sick days and only major holidays off. Office hrs are 9-6 which they don't tell you until your first day. Reviews are tough and they make it really hard to get high scores and you are rated in comparison to your team members which doesn't make sense and contributes to a competitive negative environment. Career growth is also hard and HR policies are not consistent, its easier for a non full time employee to get a role than for a full time employee. This is a very high stress environment that will burn you out really quickly. Think really hard before working here, actually look elsewhere it's not worth your time.

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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
Jul 9, 2026
Recommend
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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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