Samsung Research America reviews

The following are the negative aspects that are commonly experienced when working at Samsung: • Korean management, who were sent to the U.S. from Samsung Corp. in Korea, makes all of the decisions. • Non-Korean managers and employees are put in place to keep up an "American" appearance. • Management will favor ethnically and culturally Korean employees. • Culturally Korean employees will have work-related conversations in Korean in front of non-Korean co-workers. • Majority of managers are severely incompetent and have very little skill or expertise. • Working style emulates the military (probably Korean military). • At Samsung, female workers are second class citizens who need to feign traditional, submissive roles. Sometimes, they literally walk behind the male employees, especially if they are culturally Korean. • Employees work very hard to "compete" by analyzing competitor's products & features. • Compensation will be below par when compared to competing companies, unless you were an A level employee at the competing company, i.e. A, F, G, & N, who Samsung would like to poach in the area. If you are currently working for one of the top tier companies, please be well advised and make a better choice for your career.

Because SISA is still growing and trying to improve, it does suffer from some growing pains. The biggest is that while upper management in Korea generally realizes that Samsung as a whole needs to improve its processes and practices and looks to SISA to help lead those changes (since it's in Silicon Valley), those lower down in Korea often don't see as much urgency in transforming their practices. As a result, sometimes driving change requires a bit of patience and understanding.