A Cultural Disaster..Run if you aren't Korean - Director National Accounts (Mobile Communications) LG Electronics Employee Review

2.0
Dec 22, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Nice new Canadian office... environment is bright and roomy Products are innovative and quality is good For the most part, good people who want o be successful

Cons

A suffocating Korean culture of top down management. STRICT control by Seoul bureaucrats who ask for endless meaningless reports on minutiae. An almost non-existent strategy for consumer marketing that makes any sense which results in massive struggles for sell through as there is no marketing "pull" If you are not Korean, you are not trusted or respected. They will have a 5 min discussion in Korean in a meeting you are sitting in.

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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
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Pros

LG used to be my dream job. 5 years ago, Every good part of LG ended. They preach all day about wellness, work life balance, and investing in their employees. And they used to do just that but not any more. Their 100% paid insurance is literally the only perk and its a trap.

Cons

They take motivated and competent individuals and shackle them with the workload of 5 or 6 people while telling them they aren't good enough, not doing enough, even though they are somehow finding a way to juggle all of the immense workload. PTO is a joke and no one respects it, they will call and ask you to work on your PTO, on weekends and at 10pm. They have no shame. The compensation is entirely below the bar even with 100% paid insurance. Promotions & Raises? Those only go to Koreans. Its gone so far down hill in the last 5 years. The culture in that office is so toxic but the job market is so restricted that you can't leave.

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