Sony reviews

3.9

79% would recommend to a friend

(3,195 total reviews)
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Kenichiro Yoshida

90% approve of CEO

65% positive business outlook

Sony has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 3,195 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Sony employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.5 stars).

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3.0
Jul 5, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

It's still a great brand to work for despite its flaws and current struggles. Staff discounts on TVs can be very good. There are some very good people amongst the ranks.

Cons

Corporate culture just will not change - very old fashioned, bureaucratic and slow moving. The company cannot decide if its focus is content (supported by hardware) or hardware (supported by content). As such, neither is done as well as it should be. Career progression can be limited due to the vast layers of middle management. Cost-cutting focus leads to numerous rounds of job losses and budget cuts - the best people often take their chance to leave when this happens.

4.0
Jun 24, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

What you do will affect the whole world and this feels really good. The brand is really strong and give you some social status. Feeling of doing something premium, not because it is cheap, but we will do it because it is good for the customer. Friendly. People will smile during meetings and invite you to drink together. Really interesting people around: Almost everybody has a hobby like playing guitar, scuba diving or Snowboarding. Easy to find your own group.

Cons

Slow to adopt to new process. Always in big teams, too many meetings with too many people. Too many middle management jobs and too much offshore, what demotivate some engineers that come here to create and eventually they are just managing cheaper labour in other countries.

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