Toshiba reviews

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.

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.