Pros
Free catered lunches - Korean food only Paychecks cleared, benefits were pretty good
Cons
If you are not Korean, you do not exist at Samsung. If you are Korean, you can sleep at your desk, get drunk, drive like a maniac and still have a job for life. There is no accountability for staff brought over from Seoul. I have experienced a stunning level of incompetence - cliquish but polite, the staff know nothing about the type of design/build we're doing, nothing about North American business practices, building codes, purchasing or subcontracctor management. They routinely go out onto the project with no safety gear. Because it's a Samsung project, they think they're exempt. 70% of the staff did nothing but write daily, weekly and monthly reports to Headquarters, all with the same information. The HQ in Seoul have micromanaged the project into the dirt - all because they don't trust the (far more experienced) local hires to get the job done right.
