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Samsung Electronics

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Fear-driven, rotten culture - Marketing Director Samsung Electronics Employee Review

1.0
Jul 29, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Opportunities to work with cutting-edge devices, designs. Also a great place to see your own work applied globally.

Cons

Senior management is hard-core Korean, male-dominated, slavish to the Chairman and his family, and fearful of being reprimanded. Their fear runs throughout the organization, making the organizational culture rotten at the deepest level. Koreans almost always work in order to get promotions which then boost their social status, in the eyes of family and friends. Desperate and slavish people.

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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
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Pros

Great products. Everyone gets to travel at least once per year.

Cons

Low pay compared to top US electronics companies. Strong culture of favoritism — managers rarely promote on merit and frequently move the goalposts for employees outside their inner circle. Colleagues and managers regularly take credit for others' work. I personally witnessed and experienced what I believe to be gender and race-based inequities in how employees are treated and evaluated. HR was unresponsive when issues were raised.

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