Toshiba Employee Job Reviews in the United States

"Rigid work environment with a lot of space to grow and develop."

What do you like about working at Toshiba?

"We are a (rapidly!) growing company. There is a lot of opportunity to take a stake in that growth - developing procedures, finding new business opportunities, creating tools to help with the work."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Play it straight and by the book. Do not try to get creative or cute with responses. In engineering, be prepared to answer field-type troubleshooting questions.If you know _any_ Japanese, let it be known! Even a little will give you a huge leg up."

What don't you like about working at Toshiba?

"It tends to be very formal. It is a very homogeneous office - ethnic, gender, culture, humor, politics, etc. My immediate department tends to be more casual and tight-knit. Often we are in fear of management's wrath for this friendly atmosphere."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Ease up, open up to the ground-level suggestions. Ask employees to devote 10~15% of their time on improvement projects or blue-sky ideas. Foster differences and bring in unique employees. Don't dwell too much on creating a procedure when pitching a new idea. Let the process play out and the departments hash out what works. Document it once it's the status quo or we have to train someone."

"It was a great learning experience."

What do you like about working at Toshiba?

"Great co-workers easy to get along with everybody was very professional."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Not at this time. Company products are competitve with other companies."

What don't you like about working at Toshiba?

"Management team was not organized. The management should be on the same page."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"The whole management team needs to be on the same page."

"I handled Help desk and desktop support and manage multiple computer platforms."

What do you like about working at Toshiba?

"Close proximity, great benefits, employee discounts, latest technology, competitive salaries"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be yourself, your experience will get you in. If you know someone it can be an advantage."

What don't you like about working at Toshiba?

"Not much room for advancement and most employees have done the same job for 10+"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Treat your employees better and don't run a too lean shop"

"This was a great step for me and my career"

What do you like about working at Toshiba?

"The team and growth of the company was great and very interesting."

What don't you like about working at Toshiba?

"Nothing, there was no problems that didnt get handled properly."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I have no suggestions for the management team since there was no issues."

What do you like about working at Toshiba?

"The pay is good. I can easily bike to work from downtown (close to one of the off-street bike paths). Generally moderate hours (rarely over 40 per week)."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"For entry level engineering positions, just show that you have a basic competency in the idea behind the equipment. From there, try to grab onto 1 skill that may be of use - for me it was some basic Japanese. That was enough to seal the deal for me.Toshiba International Corporations Power Systems Division, specifically, does not get many applicants for our jobs. You are very likely not competing against more than a few other applicants."

What don't you like about working at Toshiba?

"It is hard to innovate. Management does not allow the first few tiers of employees to problem solve their department. That is only handled by senior management, who does not have time for tasks like that, which are relatively low-level. It makes the workplace a little stagnant and unable to improve, solve customer problems, etc."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Provide a clear trajectory for the company. We also need some sort of metrics so that we know where we stand. Give employees more control over business development to increase corporate buy-in."

What do you like about working at Toshiba?

"I like the team work in my SDD group at this company"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Great company to work for. be straight and willing to help each other"

What don't you like about working at Toshiba?

"I liked to work for this company. It is great teak work"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Mangement should have offsite meeting at least once a month"

What do you like about working at Toshiba?

"not much it was a ok company for people to work with"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"no just be yourself and be creful on who you know"

What don't you like about working at Toshiba?

"certain workers have no room to advance anywhere in the company"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"none give peoplle the chance to get more money by them"

"Great people to work with, great products"

What do you like about working at Toshiba?

"The people. The folks at Toshiba dare wonderful people, my husband and I spend weekends with co-workers"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Its a self starter job. You pretty much have to figure out what is going on and who you need to know who can help you."

What don't you like about working at Toshiba?

"I have 4 bosses over the 8 years and it has been a bit of a challenge. My current boss and her boss don't really see the value of creativity"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Acknowledge and reward outstanding effort. Sometimes a few words of encouragement can often have a huge effect on employee morale"

What do you like about working at Toshiba?

"make product which can be used by a lot of people"

What don't you like about working at Toshiba?

"maybe high pressure, especially at release stage and debug stage"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"listen more from below, and make up mind as quickly as possible"

"I loved my job and the pople I worked with."

What do you like about working at Toshiba?

"The people and the company in geneal was an awsome place of employment."

What don't you like about working at Toshiba?

"I liked that we all always had back up and that that management was always there to help in any situation."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I am happy with the way management took care of business."

What do you like about working at Toshiba?

"TAMS presents varied and challenging requirements, yet systems are mostly stable."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"The atmosphere is collegial, relaxed, and friendly but there is marginal direction and business focus."

What don't you like about working at Toshiba?

"For most of my contract tenure, I had nonexistent technical supervision and direction."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"As a division of Toshiba Corp, the company must develop a more formal, businesslike, and professional IT approach."

What do you like about working at Toshiba?

"The management there allowed the flexibility to do my job"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"They are currently looking to cut jobs, noone is safe"

What don't you like about working at Toshiba?

"In the last few years I was stiffled by overbearing manager"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I would start with employee feedback and satisfaction, then environment"

What do you like about working at Toshiba?

"Good Experience to learn a lateral market of the Mailing and Document Managment World. Gave me a new appreciation of the Copy Machine."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Good Luck, everyone has a career goal and this may be yours."

What don't you like about working at Toshiba?

"Structure is not good, Poor Managment. Company needs to focus on their Service Department for client retention."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Focus on the important things and take an interest in your team."

"This is a great company to work for."