Sony reviews

3.9

77% would recommend to a friend

(3,192 total reviews)
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Kenichiro Yoshida

89% approve of CEO

65% positive business outlook

Sony has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 3,192 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Sony employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufactura industry (3.5 stars).

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3K reviews
5.0
Jul 27, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Working at Sony Europe gives me a degree of creative freedom, provided I am proactive in pursuing my goals. I like working with my colleagues in an international environment. The work atmosphere is very good; we have competent management.

Cons

Sony is a rigid corporate structure which could use more communication between the business departments to make it more efficient.

1.0
Jun 9, 2011

Sony India- A nightmare!

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

1. technically work is ok. 2. It was my dream company before joining. 3. Versatile culture in terms of contractors - you can find nearly every IT company's contractors here.

Cons

1. Incompetent CTC. 2. Working here is nightmare. They try to make your life hell by deliberately pressurizing you to work more and fast. 3. Management is very immature, no transparency, no learning opportunities and religiously into micro-management. a) Immature mgmt: Managers and leads think thenselves as king and treats you like servent and try to command you. They don't trust you at all. They will scrutinize deeply you at every step. Try to make you work for at least more than 12 hrs a day, if you don't they will screw your appraisal. they will shamelessly highlight your mistakes/negative points to every one and won't praise you at good work. b) No transparency: They tend to make you handicapped by hiding the info as much as possible. c) No learning: apart from project no freedom for learning. d) Micro-mgmt: they ask you status daily before leaving and shamelessly keep reviews and meetings after office hrs. No freedom to do anything apart from work. This kind of behavior tends to eat up your brain. 4) No facilities for employee like other companies. My previous company had much better facilities and culture. 5) Culture is non-cooperative and over work is high expectation with no overtime pay. 6) Company don't believe in keeping employee happy. 7) Attrition rate is going exponentially up. 8) They don't believe work life balance.

1.0
May 8, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

All the reasons are secondary . I feel there are no primary reasons related to work. 1. The initial training period ( for a fresher ) of 2 months will be awesome. You will learn various languages and aspects of software engineering. 2. Enjoy brand name. Everyone knows SONY. 3. Enjoy SONY products at a discounted rate. :P

Cons

1. No guarantee for a fresher to which project he will be put into. The probability of changing the project afterwards tends to NULL. 2. Worst is the 2 years of service agreement worth 2 lakhs INR. Where in the world will you see it. !! 3. No respect for the employees whatsoever. HR is very very unsupportive. They do whatever they want. 4. 10 Months of on-job training literally is of no use. They spent zero after 2 months of initial (external) training. 5. Pay standards are very LOW. Often non-negotiable. Complete exploitation for a fresher. 6. 2 out of 10 projects are development ones. Rest all are testing, support and maintenance. Its like having SISC as our own Wipro/TCS. 7. The organisation does not have clear vision for the GETs or Freshers. 8. They will do lots of talk and promises during the campus recruitment drive.

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