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Samsung Strategy and Innovation Center

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Great place overall, just know what it is and what it isn’t - Senior Manager Samsung Strategy and Innovation Center Employee Review

4.0
Aug 31, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

-Relatively small strategy & innovation team inside a massive company -As an individual, you can take on a lot of responsibility and work on cool, interesting projects -You will get incredible exposure here: whether it be to technology, people, outside companies -Mostly great leadership

Cons

-While as an individual or small team you can do interesting, worthwhile things, you should know that you aren’t going to fundamentally change Samsung as a whole. Projects start small, and very rarely become medium or large. typical for a small team in big company. -SSIC is mostly independent from Korea HQ, but not entirely. When hq wants to exert some oversight, prepare to drop everything you are doing and write formal reports, requests, whatever they demand without question or complaint. This could take a day, a week or a month. Doesn’t happen often

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5.0
Apr 9, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Although the internship was fully remote, they tried to make opportunities to communicate with full-time employees and other interns. They also provided all resources needed for the intern project, so there were no technical difficulties during the internship. Great company with tons of support and many interesting projects.

Cons

Some logistics were complicated to figure out. But I think this may be a problem for all big corporations.

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2.0
May 21, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Samsung has great perks and benefits, and coworkers are usually very talented and smart.

Cons

Let me start by pointing out that most of the positive reviews have been either provided by interns or by employees all submitting reviews coincidentally in June 2019. This organization does not have any credibility with leadership in Korea HQ. This results in a lot of busy work and fire drills that ultimately do not have any impact to the company's overall strategy or growth. Over the years the various innovation efforts have all been "graduated" and transferred to other Samsung businesses and promptly shut down. Digital health, data center, autonomous driving... you name it, and it's been tried, and failed. When the previous head of the organization left at the end of 2020, he took with him all the remaining credibility and purpose that the organization had. They also bungled a round of layoffs which I was a part of, that was ill conceived and poorly executed. What leading company cuts a third of an organization in December? This was right before the Christmas holidays with 4 weeks notice and during the covid pandemic no less! The people who planned it obviously never had to look for a job over Xmas break and are clueless about how horrific the timing was.

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