Samsung Research America Reviews

Pros

Good work experience place to learn

Cons

No cons in my view

Pros

Nice Working Culture Good Environment for learning

Cons

45 hours a week bound

Pros

1. Good work life balance, 2. Descent pay.

Cons

1. Communication and collaboration with HQ is pain. Its either their way or no way. Decisions in HQ are taken in whim. 2. Lack of longterm vision and business clarity. Probably because not many people stay there for longterm. 3. Disconnect between Senior management and employees. 4. Very less collaboration across different teams.

Pros

The work environment is pretty chaotic, but people are very open to contributions. If some work sounds interesting, nobody is going to complain about you taking lead or tagging along to support and learn. If you're motivated and looking for high-impact work, you're not going to get many better opportunities than at Samsung. A lot of the work of pretty cool too. On some teams, you have no work-life balance. On engineering teams, it's largely up to you to decide your balance.

Cons

The focus is very much on short-term results, and it's not uncommon for projects to get side-lined by a big new product focus. The pay is low compared to FAANG, and we lose a lot of talent to FAANG. For better or worse, we're at the intersection of many other companies. Some of them limit us quite severely, and some of them give us opportunities you wouldn't see at pretty much any other company. Upper management (EVP and up) has no idea how to do software. You'll never see upper management, but you will feel the effects of their lack of foresight, usually in the form of unnecessary chaos. We are so dysfunctional as an organization. HR concerns are decided high up in HQ with little regard for what the impact would be at the working level. Sales and R&D have no clue how the other operates, which leads to hilariously impossible asks and low ability to leverage one another. We're deeply an R&D organization, but our product managers don't understand the R. (Not knocking on them, they're great people with often great ideas, but they're not staffed properly.) There is NO well-accepted way to justify efforts internally. It's not money, not quality, not research, not organizational alignment, not preparation for the future. If you have an idea, it better latch onto the crisis-of-the-season if it wants a fighting chance, or it better stay out of sight of management.

Pros

attacking constant global challenges for all spectrum of consumer electronics business

Cons

big and frequent swings of strategic directions by different leadership