Toxic Culture - Software Engineering Leader PlayStation Employee Review

1.0
Sep 29, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Good pay and benefits, nice perks, decent office, Starbucks, cafeteria.

Cons

Toxic culture all around. Ex-Intuit leadership uses bullying, intimidation, and public humiliation to strongarm people into their ways. Japanese culture is typical hierarchical, micromanagement, imitation of your superiors, rule following, and don't color outside the lines to command and control the staff. The result is there is no leadership at Sony because the focus is all on managing down to control the Engineers and tell them how to do their job. To add, since the Japanese culture is robotic and lacks human empathy, they do not understand or recognize the criticality of soft skills and human interaction in business leadership, so tend to make poor business decisions and hiring decisions.

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