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Shocking! The service-related business is deliberately outsourced to a company that has no sense of employee benefits

Technical Lead
Former Employee
Worked at Samsung for 6 years
December 13, 2014
Sydney, Australia
1.0
Doesn't RecommendNo CEO Opinion
Pros

Get to know some innovative products and how they flood the market with hundreds of products in a year.

Cons

The basic problem is the company culture, which doesn't match Australian culture. They just know how to work till you die! There's no work-life balance. I worked for Samsung through another outsourced company for over 4 years. During that time, I saw how the managers were so busy meeting their KPIs, how they tried to make the Koreans understand something but did something totally different. Managers were busy backstabbing each other to stay in the company! Not many managers survived due to the company culture. I saw more than 10 managers coming and going in a few years. It's beyond my imagination that such a big company has such a fragile management system and no sense of work-life balance. Managers are completely disconnected from the junior employees. When they are told to do job cuts, they ask employees to detail what they do on a daily basis and make a decision based on that. Regardless of how good you are, you can be sacked if you don't have a good relationship with your manager.

If you don't believe me, try to find 5 employees out of 100+ in the service division who have been working for Samsung for more than 5 years.

Advice to Management

If you want to compete with Apple, at least treat your employees a little better than you do and try to understand different country cultures.

I can give you hundreds of examples of how you lost millions due to having a bad culture and not following Australian consumer law properly. First, you ended up giving away free upgrades or refunds!

Keep an eye on the guy who is your technical escalation point now in Australia. He simply believes, 'Keep the Koreans happy, and if you replace phones without repairing, I lose my KPI.' Whereas there are hundreds of cases where, because of him, we ended up repairing a device multiple times, followed by replacing it, as customers fought hard according to the ACL (Australian Consumer Law).

It's a waste of time and money when you have a major fault and keep repairing, especially for corporate clients.

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