Political, Unprofessional, Incompetent - Anonymous employee Toshiba Employee Review

1.0
Aug 13, 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Pay, Benefits, 401K (6% match), time off , tuition reimbursement, parental leave. There's little else that makes this place worth staying.

Cons

This review is specifically about Toshiba International Corporation (subsidiary) in Houston, TX, but Glassdoor won't let me select that as an option. First off, go to Google news and read all the issues they were having with the accounting scandal and then the embarrassment that happened with their nuclear division. Now they're forced to hack off limbs and selling their cash cow to fill the crater that the nuclear business left on their balance sheet in a company that was already posting losses and lying about it. Keep that in mind when you read the rest of this review because the mindset flows from Japan down to your CEO and supervisor. Upper and middle management are incompetent, and the performance reviews are designed so they can keep their jobs regardless of their performance. They suffer from the same issue that got Toshiba Japan into financial trouble in the first place. No one wants to tell management bad news because they're afraid and upper management won't delve into the numbers to ask questions because then they can't play dumb when problems comes to light. The overhead is bloated due to the support groups (legal, finance, accounting) who sometime just flat out don't do their jobs or try to have say outside their authority. Actually, the place is full of people who flat out don't do their jobs. High performers get burned out from picking up the slack from all of the other lazy employees. Also be prepared to be micromanaged because what terrible company won't be complete without that aspect. They have no idea what market research is. They think their products are great and innovative. They're not; just overpriced garbage. Currently looking for a new job to get out of this god awful sinking titanic of company.

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