Samsung Research America reviews

Fact: HQ people don't speak English, so every America team leader need to be Korean. But it is very hard to find so many capable Computer Majored Korean in America. Even they can find it, not many capable A-grade Korean want to work for Samsung (Go ask any of your korean co-worker). So you end up with a Supervisor that only have Junior level skill, and they are the one that have to make decision. All the decision made are not logical but political. All these team leaders want to impress their HQ boss by coming up with new idea. But since they only have Junior-level mind set, their idea are pure stupid. At first, you will try to tell your Junior-level supervisor that his idea wont work. But he wont understand why and will ask you doing it anyway. As time go by, you stop caring and just say yes to every stupid idea that he come up with. At the end of the day, all the good A-grade engineers can't stand it and will quit. And you end up working with a team of so so engineer there. if you think you are good, dont waste your time here. dont expected you can learn anything there

Old-school approaches, backwards formalities, and a political mine field. Even though there are dozens of independent groups that feel like tiny start-ups falling under the Samsung umbrella, you can't switch from the one to another if you wanted. The only way would be to quit the company altogether, go through the interview process, and you may get it. Getting promoted is also a challenge, even if you're breaking your back. Most accomplishments filter through Korea and often treated via political lens. I've seen many amazing prototypes, which get killed because one VP doesn't like another VP. This place is good for learning new technologies, but not for someone who wants to grow with a company. It's primarily good for Korean nationals, who don't have to work as hard, but get all the recognition.