Samsung Strategy and Innovation Center Reviews

Management team loves pedigree - they want folks from top companies and top schools, even though they don't have it themselves. They want overqualified people to do menial work. It's preferable if you are a VP who can make slides, or director who can take meeting notes. If you like being a glorified secretary on the business side or like "innovating" on a dead-end project on the technical side, then this is the place for you. Directions change all the time and not in a good way. Part of it is due to misalignment with Samsung mothership - other businesses make money, and we just burn it. Why would other company leadership care what we think and do? Most of it is due to poor management. Yes you have senior [in both age and seniority] Asian men leading the organization. But it doesn't mean they have any management skills other than being able to order people around. The best analogy is to think of a general yelling angrily at his troops to work harder, without specifying the purpose of the work, and then changing his mind a moment later and yelling at the same people for not being able to anticipate this change. A lot of mediocrity on the technical side - we're not exactly a premier tech employer by any means. Why would any engineer go to Samsung instead of Google or Apple? This place is where innovation fails to launch or gets sent to other Korean businesses to die. Too much politics on the business side. The people there are full of themselves. They greet each other warmly in the hallway and talk openly about collaboration, then proceed to stab each other in the back. Do your own homework into the track record of SSIC over the last 6 or 7 years, and the high turnover. Those who stick around for a long time are either Samsung lifers, people applying for green card, or those who can't go somewhere better.