Toshiba is an incredibly terrible company to work for for these reasons:
- Terrible work / life balance : Toshiba measures employees based on how many hours worked beyond 40 hours weekly. Vacation & sick days count against you, so in essence you are rewarded for taking fewer PTO, vacation, & sick type days and for working lots of long hours (80+ hours/weekly).
- Little to nil learning opportunities - Toshiba severely discourages employees from spending time to understand something and instead suggests reusing stuff rather than creating something new based on understandings.
- No stretch opportunity types of projects - Toshiba has never offered opportunities to learn outside of the box, such as with short (one day, one week, one hour/weekly, etc) innovation types of side projects.
- No one knows anything - The majority of the knowledgeable employees (managers, software engineers, architects, product owners, testers) have been resigning in droves non-stop over the past few years leaving a massive knowledge-gap. The impact is severe since work cannot be designed/developed without understanding the business process & how they've implemented their technologies.
- No Team culture & Employees only care for themselves - The remaining people who know stuff are truly unwilling to collaborate & aren't at all willing to help even if it is for a quick 1 or 2 minute question, which is likely because performance reviews are based on how much work is done rather than on how much collaboration and teamwork is done. As a result, helping others takes time away from them getting better reviews.
- Scrum Story Descriptions & Requirements Write-ups Severely Incomplete and Innaccurate - Missing business value, requirements, & acceptance criteria, and if there is info it is way too technical (rarely written from customer & business point of view). Likely due to knowledge gap.
- Terrible Telecommuting policy - All the meetings we have are done remotely via MsTeams, however they still require being physically in the office the majority of the week. This, despite high gas prices & despite sending out company emails weekly indicating new instances of Covid cases found on for several employees across various floors in the building.
- Incredibly Cold, Untrusting, & Unfriendly Environment -Never introduced to anyone on team when starting as new employee. Never (not even for a few seconds of time) asked anything about anything related to non-work things (e.g., any plans for the weekend, did you have a good weekend, etc).
