Samsung Group

Want it the Samsung Way?  You might want to think it over

“Samsung is a tough ride,” one insider declares.  It’s a “very demanding place to work,” “Samsung can be a very difficult environment,” other respondents chime in.  “I was very surprised that teamwork was not a priority,” observes one contact.  The company has a “Korean military structure.  No questions, no chitchat—just follow your orders and get your work done quickly.”  Not surprisingly, “Turnover is extremely high.  I would guesstimate that 80 percent of non-Korean-born employees leave within a year,” speculates one source.  “Even Koreans who lived and worked abroad find it hard to adjust to strongly hierarchical structure, or complete lack of formal rules and procedures,” adds a colleague.