Design Engineer - Design Engineer II Toshiba Employee Review

1.0
Apr 9, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Depending on which department you work in, for certain departments, you only need to do 4 hours of real work every week. 401K match is a minor plus too. You get max incentives almost every quarter.

Cons

Overall: Please Please don't look at 3.6 overall rating since Toshiba has different offices in different sectors across USA. This review is specifically for Toshiba International Corporation located in Houston, TX. Please stay away if you are in your early or mid stage in your career and still care for your career progression. But this is a perfect company if you are about to retire or good at playing politics since there is no real work to do at all. Toshiba international has a wide range of products from ASD, UPS, motors and battery systems. Right now they are only living on selling battery systems and products from Japan. None of the products designed in Houston, TX are selling. - Management: Lazy and incapable managers who are incapable of identifying tasks need to be done for a new project. Manager in key department has zero technical knowledge of their products - not even the basics of electrical and software engineering for their product, and this is leading to significant delay of their "life saving" new product. And manager is not aware of their structural problems due to the lack of technical knowledge and more sadly they are not willing to pay for technical training programs that the team is in urgent need for regardless what company policies are. - Culture: Some people here work for keeping their job safe. Some people here work for gaining more power. But nobody cares about employees and their products. Lies after lies. Engineers are commonly tired of political games and toxic atmosphere. Career progression - No career progression. 1. You don't learn anything since there is no work or all the work is highly repetitive because of intensive office politics. 2. Managers are incapable of leading a department in a right direction. 3. Managers don't care if you learn anything and don't promote fairly.

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Cons

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