Pros
Years ago, many pros. In the current status, there’s nothing left but lovely and talented people in all departments who I sincerely wish can find a better place to work
Cons
- The company is financially and culturally mismanaged. It won’t survive by one reason or another, or by both. If it does survive, the culture will devolve further. Just spare yourself and stay away - The culture devolved into high toxicity, inexistent transparency, micromanagement (from way to work to people’s schedules), and work-life imbalance - A massive layoff happened in 2025. Nobody knows why they were fired exactly, individual reasoning is not given. We just know the company has no money and that other layoffs may happen - Layoff happened through a dry CEO email at 7am. That was all. People silently watched their colleagues being pressured to leave without knowing why they were picked. The general reasoning given is no money and performance issues, yet somehow some of the highest performers were sent away. My belief is that this was intentionally done so to create a culture of fear, and people were just fired based on how high their salaries were instead. People who had been there for many years and basically built whole parts of that company were simply sent away. But I guess no one will ever know - Layoffs like these are not actually legal in Korea, so people were being instead pushed to leave. Support to people leaving was meager and inhumane. They were just basically given what the law entitles them in any job leaving situation, not much more. Discussions with HR were also inhumane and there are reports people were treated with deliberate meanness - Before and after the layoff, highly talented people, from distinguished scientists to extremely experienced engineers, continued to leave in droves and nobody but their teammates and direct leaders cared. My gut feeling is that they were relieved because they couldn’t pay them anyways. - Before the layoff, everyone could guess the situation was bad for months and that a layoff was coming. That put everyone in a state of paranoia and stress that went on for months - Many situations that happened in this company actually warrant a labor lawsuit and it may happen eventually Note that this is specially about Korea headquarters. Do not be fooled, this is not the typical hardship of working in Korean corporate. It’s accumulated tales that make people in any other healthy Korean company appalled And who knows what it is like anywhere else (the other offices) because the communication and transparency is at an atrocious level. We barely understand what people in other teams are doing, imagine whole other countries. The reviews in glassdoor are misleading and many are from a different era when this used to be a good place. I recommend checking Korean forums were people speak freely anonymously, instead, to get a glimpse of the actual situation. The comments have been negative for years.
