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4.0
Average Rating
(based on 97 Sony Review Ratings)

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Company Culture
4.0
Growth Opportunities
3.4
People You Work With
4.3
Person You Work For
4.3
Rewards You Receive
4.0
Support You Get
4.1
Way You Work
4.2
Work Setting
4.2
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"I've worked in SONY & SVA Electronics Co., Ltd. This company locates in Shanghai, China. It's the best and the largest plant that Sony invested in China for producing digital video camera, film camera, network conference system and surveillance camera. Chasing the highest quality is the only goal of the company. Good environment, culture and strict managing style and structure. Providing stable promoting opportunities."
Posted 10 years ago in China, ME
Senior eLearning Specialist

What do you like about working at Sony?

"Progressive, diverse culture; modern facilities; transparency in leadership; feeling that good ideas are important; open culture."

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

"Research consumer electronics, specifically the Sony products in the category for which you are interviewing, and be aware of who the competition is."

What don't you like about working at Sony?

"Uncertainty about the future as far as how the company is competing."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Not much; tough times lately and it looks like leadership is doing what is necessary; they've followed through on their talk and have had to make many tough decisions."

Person You Work For 4 / 5 People You Work With 4 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 3 / 5 Growth Opportunities 5 / 5
Company Culture 5 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5
Staff Software Engineer

What do you like about working at Sony?

"I like: employee empowerment, peer support, company culture, work life balance, work from home choice!"

What don't you like about working at Sony?

"lack of growth, lack of career move, lack of challenges"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"should set accomplish-able goals based on the existing staffing, be more open"

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 4 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 5 / 5 Rewards You Receive 2 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3 / 5
Company Culture 4 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Key Account Manager

What do you like about working at Sony?

"I have enjoyed learning about and selling great products over the years."

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

"I will not offer suggestions at this time due to current employment."

What don't you like about working at Sony?

"The company has moved from a sales based company to a marketing based company and has lost some of its direction."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I will not offer suggestions at this time due to current employment"

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 4 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 3 / 5 Rewards You Receive 3 / 5 Growth Opportunities 2 / 5
Company Culture 4 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5
QA Analyst

"it was a good learning experience"

What do you like about working at Sony?

"work from remote location was the good thing about the company."

What don't you like about working at Sony?

"good learning experience have got from working with the company"

Person You Work For 3 / 5 People You Work With 3 / 5 Work Setting 3 / 5
Support You Get 3 / 5 Rewards You Receive 3 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3 / 5
Company Culture 3 / 5 Way You Work 3 / 5
Senior Researcher

"image processing / computer vision / medical imaging / machine learning /"

What do you like about working at Sony?

"The working environment is nice and colleagues are very supportive"

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

"No particular tips for others interviewing with this company. Equal opportunities"

What don't you like about working at Sony?

"No particular reasons for me to dislike current working company"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"No particular suggestions to my current working company. It is fine."

Person You Work For 3 / 5 People You Work With 4 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 2 / 5 Rewards You Receive 3 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3 / 5
Company Culture 3 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5
Maintenance Technician

"If you are looking for purgatory, you found it."

What do you like about working at Sony?

"During the hiring process, the company men make this seem like a dream job. Be very aware, that little to nothing is actually true that they tell you. It is a bait and switch scam, they rope you in and once your there and in deep enough that it's no longer easy to leave, well, welcome to hell."

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

"DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE WORK FOR SONY IN TERRE HAUTE, INDIANA!!!"

What don't you like about working at Sony?

"This isn't an easy question as the list could possibly go on forever. They reduced hours, lie consistently, cheat you out of earned bonuses, withhold alternative amounts of tax, force you to perform other tasks, force you to take periodic fake evaluations, lie, steal, have sex with my co-workers on the plant floor and force employees to lie and conceal whereabouts of management. If you enjoyed high school, this will be a dream job for you. If you are even a somewhat functioning adult, PLEASE, NO MATTER HOW DIRE YOUR FINANCIAL POSITION, DO NOT WORK FOR SONY IN TERRE HAUTE. IT IS HELL. PURE AND SIMPLE."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"To die would probably be the easiest thing. They are vile and decieteful and not capable of change."

Person You Work For 2 / 5 People You Work With 4 / 5 Work Setting 2 / 5
Support You Get 1 / 5 Rewards You Receive 1 / 5 Growth Opportunities 1 / 5
Company Culture 1 / 5 Way You Work 1 / 5
Test Lead

"Great place to gain knowledge"

What do you like about working at Sony?

"Discipline,Work ethics,latest technologies"

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

"just be cool"

What don't you like about working at Sony?

"no growth opportunities"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Appreciation for hard work and consider suggestions from Team"

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3 / 5
Company Culture 4 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Front End Web Developer

What do you like about working at Sony?

"I get to participate in shaping the company's direction and future."

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

"Don't be afraid to be open and honest about your ideas."

What don't you like about working at Sony?

"At times the front-end developers do not have a voice."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Develop a growth path for front-end developers and nurture them in their role."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 3 / 5 Growth Opportunities 2 / 5
Company Culture 3 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5
Lead Operator

"A work in progress."

What do you like about working at Sony?

"The ability to work with users and learn new technology."

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

"To always be upfront about who you are. If you think you can do the job then go for it. Don't let fear hold you back from experiences in life."

What don't you like about working at Sony?

"No advancement within the Information Systems Department. Also no advancement in pay scale."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Always be fair and honest. Don' t let inexperience stop a person from advancement when they beleive they can do the job."

Person You Work For 4 / 5 People You Work With 4 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 5 / 5 Rewards You Receive 5 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3 / 5
Company Culture 4 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Mechanical Engineer

What do you like about working at Sony?

"innovative & passionate culture, people like product development. Many nice people"

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

"Be energetic and passionate for the better product . Keep challenging spirit."

What don't you like about working at Sony?

"Long and unclear approval process. System infra structure was bad"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"change work flow. introduce better work infra stricture such as bigger storage and faster network"

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 3 / 5 Rewards You Receive 3 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3 / 5
Company Culture 5 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
QA Engineer

"So proud to be part of great organization and working closely to Yahoo for"

What do you like about working at Sony?

"GREAT Company. Great Brands, great projects and great people in my group. Very flexible in time and very trusty to their employee that gives you an easy environment to work for. very friendly"

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

"As a developer knowing Android developing is a plus here"

What don't you like about working at Sony?

"Limitation on the projects and ideas that employees have. Everything needs to be approved by Japan and that takes log time. Not good in a competitive market."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Not my manager but the global Managers need to know the US market better."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 5 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4 / 5 Growth Opportunities 4 / 5
Company Culture 5 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Export Agent

What do you like about working at Sony?

"Good team player. All member staffs are very friendly and support each other."

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

"You must become a team player and willing to help each other."

What don't you like about working at Sony?

"Sony Logistics only can move cargo from Sony Corp. They can't process other non-Sony cargo due to Sony Global Insurance policy."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Should search more business & market at other different Sony departments."

Person You Work For 4 / 5 People You Work With 4 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4 / 5 Growth Opportunities 2 / 5
Company Culture 4 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5
QA Inspector

"hard worker, team oriented, positive attitude, always on time for work"

What do you like about working at Sony?

"People were willing to help one another, friendly, team oriented"

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

"just be yourself, be friendly, be a team player, hard worker"

What don't you like about working at Sony?

"I have no comment and it was a friendly company"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I have no comment they were all willing to work with you"

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 5 / 5 Rewards You Receive 5 / 5 Growth Opportunities 5 / 5
Company Culture 5 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Lead Developer

"Worked as a technical lead on Java, J2ee technologies."

What do you like about working at Sony?

"This is one of reputed clients of the company where I worked."

What don't you like about working at Sony?

"I don't have any thing I did not like about this company"

Person You Work For 4 / 5 People You Work With 4 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 5 / 5 Growth Opportunities 4 / 5
Company Culture 4 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5
Software QA Engineer

What do you like about working at Sony?

"It was an environment that they made you responsible for a task, and they trust you in getting it completed."

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

"The model has change since its been 5 years ago. The dept I worked for is now overseas, or very minimal."

What don't you like about working at Sony?

"Contract Position: Very difficult to get a permanent position with this company"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"The management handle themselves well, they worked as a team, and everyone work together to get the job done."

Person You Work For 4 / 5 People You Work With 4 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 3 / 5 Growth Opportunities 2 / 5
Company Culture 3 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5

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Is Sony a good company to work for?

Sony has an overall rating of 4.0 Average Rating out of 5, based on over 97 Sony Review Ratings left anonymously by Sony employees, which is 3% higher than the average rating for all companies on CareerBliss. 96% of employees would recommend working at Sony.

Does Sony pay their employees well?

Sony employees earn $60,000 annually on average, or $29 per hour, which is 9% lower than the national salary average of $66,000 per year. 32 Sony employees have shared their salaries on CareerBliss. Find Sony Salaries by Job Title.

How satisfied are employees working at Sony?

96% of employees would recommend working at Sony with the overall rating of 4.0 out of 5. Employees also rated Sony 4.0 out of 5 for Company Culture, 4.0 for Rewards You Receive, 3.4 for Growth Opportunities and 4.1 for support you get.

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