Pros
Annual leave. (18 days instead of 14 days) Free coffee
Cons
Turnover rate is so high. Most of the developers are leaving the company in a short period (less than 3 years). There are just a couple of employees, most of them are managers, team leads who have been working for more than 5 years. You hear cost cutting usually in the IT meetings. Firing employees, even they perform good, is not unordinary. Sony is losing market share and they are trying to survive by cost-cutting. Sony Turkey is also being smaller. (When I started, there were approximately 90 employees. After 6 or 7 months, there were around 65 employees.) Sony Turkey works on a project basis. They have a unit for each project. When the project finish, they are closing the unit. Then they may fire you or may suggest another role if exists. (Sony Turkey cannot get new projects, Sony India is getting new projects because of Indian's lower cost employee advantage. ) I worked with a bad manager. She may be one of the worst managers that I worked in the last 11 years. She did not know the technology well. When there is a problem, she even could not understand the reason for the problem. She says just do this, do that; like a typical boss but she just says the obvious and simple tasks. When there is complexity, you could not get help and feedback from your manager. Even you need to explain the situation, sometimes you need to explain technical things. Sony Turkey is too far away from being innovative and high-tech.
