Samsung

Decent Compensation

Lot of technologies to work on if given a chance.

Free and decent food (have to pay for snacks).

If one performs well in their competency test, they are very valued and given a choice to choose any team.

Some teams are really good with very competent people who really care about the career growth of a fresher (I was fortunate to get into one such team).

Extremely poor HR policies. One example is that when college freshers join, their teams are decided by HR, as compared to the people working in the teams themselves.

There is a retention bonus policy, wherein one has to work for at least 3 years to get the assured package; otherwise, they have to return the retention bonus part of the salary, which is almost 30% of the total annual compensation.

Extremely tight security. Can't take laptops out of the office. Can't bring anything like USBs, iPods, etc., inside. Hence, can't work from home.

No Wi-Fi in the office. Even the Ethernet speed is very poor (~10 Mbps).

Lot of disparity in compensation and general behavior between IITians and non-IITians.

Work-life balance in most of the teams is poor.

HQ in Korea makes all the decisions. No ownership of any project, except some really bad projects that don't have any commercial value.

Some teams are called to work on weekends, while other teams hardly work half the time they are in the office.

No recreation in the office, other than a Foosball table and two TT tables for ~5k employees.

Please listen to feedback from employees and fix the HR policies. If some things are changed, the company has the potential to rival the likes of Google and Microsoft.