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Best for workaholics, donkeys

Engineer
Former Employee
Worked at Samsung for 1 year
July 5, 2016
Noida, Uttar Pradesh
2.0
Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookDoesn't Approve of CEO
Pros

Free transport (bus service).

Free mid-day food (6 menus to choose from and excellent palette with diversity).

Good canteen, clean environment (a bit cluttered, but it's manageable).

Opportunity for a business trip to Korea (it is usually fodder they feed to you, hooked; there is nothing in Korea but work only).

Cons

I worked here for 5 months, but I couldn't take it anymore and left as soon as I got a chance. The services were excellent, but the work was backbreaking and menial. It felt like a daily-wage worker with no improvement in skill and doing excessive work for nothing.

Timings were killing too. I barely had enough interaction with my family, and my health started suffering too.

Being a Korean company, it believes in "work before everything" – even your life, health, family, everything. You are a well-fed donkey whose only job is to do heavy-lifting for your master without any question. The pay is not as grand as they say.

The biggest fool HR makes out of you is by initiating company-wide "activities" or "learning sessions" which you cannot attend because your manager is whipping you from behind to work instead.

  • Constant forced overtime
  • Constant pressure to work on weekends
  • No compensation for overtime (even though it was forced and mandatory)
  • No voice for the employee; do what you are told, and if you don't, you'd be fired immediately.
  • Weekend work comp-offs were denied by the manager many times, and many times the request for leave was rejected.

Worst things: the DEF system. Here is how it works:

  • There has to be a minimum time difference of 9 hours between your first swipe-in (when you enter) and swipe-out (when you leave for the day).
  • There has to be a minimum of 8 hours spent inside the company complex.
  • You have to enter by 8:15 at the latest and not leave before 5:15.

Breaking any of the above rules will cost you a DEF. Three DEFs will automatically count as an off-day, and your salary would be deducted.

So, if you don't live near the company and take about 2 hours of travel on each side, you spend 13 hours a day being a slave. Adding your sleep to it, you sell 21 hours of your day to Samsung for a pay that you cannot spend on yourself (what can you possibly buy that will help you for the 3 hours a day that you get for yourself?).

Advice to Management

Please stop treating employees like donkeys. Even though you feed them well, they are not your slaves and have a life outside the company too. This is India, not Korea.

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