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Awesome brand, employees & products. Terrible work culture - Marketing Samsung Electronics America Employee Review

3.0
Oct 4, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Global respect and recognition for the Samsung brand - Smart talented employees dedicated to the work. Great experience working with them across functions and around the world - Opportunities to work on exciting / new / innovative products - Nice employee discount on Samsung products - Strong compensation and benefits package (except no profit sharing, stock options/RSUs, etc.)

Cons

- Horrendous culture driven from Korea HQ where life revolves around work (not the other way around). This is the expectation for all employees. Led to awful work/life balance, especially if you have a family or kids. My HR recruiter basically lied to me about the culture ("sold me" if you will). In hindsight I wish I had investigated this part more - Incredibly difficult to get anything done. So much red tape and lots of restrictive policies that cause high levels of frustration. ** example - the company has still not embraced real-time collaboration tools (Slack, Google Drive, etc.) that are standard at literally every other company worldwide. Net results are (1) CRAZY amounts of email and tons of meetings which doesn't leave much time for actual work, and (2) major communication struggles with colleagues around the world Overall I would not recommend working at Samsung if you care about working efficiently, work/life balance or have a family.

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5.0
Jul 10, 2026
Recommend
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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