Terrible Business Culture - Anonymous employee Samsung Electronics Employee Review

- Awful hierarchical work culture. Employees are expected to carry out orders quickly and without questioning them. Discussing ideas, taking time to make decisions and discovering innovative solutions are actively discouraged. - Preferential treatment of Korean employees. Western colleagues are treated like potential corporate spies, refused access to many essential systems and databases and spend most of their time justifying their purpose as a paid employee to managers in Seoul. Korean colleagues in Seoul have a far more favourable bonus system and the 'expats' have private school fees for their kids paid for and are treated with kid gloves by HR. - Shocking IT infrastructure. The 'in-house' software and systems are laughable. Much of it is improperly translated (despite English being proudly proclaimed as the company language) with both over zealous security restrictions and multiple security loopholes. The documentation of system architecture is non-existant. - Pointless reporting. Most staff spend upwards of 40% of their time producing largely useless reports and massaging figures where necessary. Management's solution to most problems was simply "make a new report for this". Simply spreadsheets full of numbers at people will not solve many of the complex structural difficulties facing this company.