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4.0
Average Rating
(based on 97 Sony Review Ratings)

Ratings by Category

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
Sony Employee

"Great company with amazing products. Opportunity to learn many things."

Person You Work For 4.3 / 5 People You Work With 4.3 / 5 Work Setting 4.3 / 5
Support You Get 4.3 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4.3 / 5 Growth Opportunities 4.3 / 5
Company Culture 4.3 / 5 Way You Work 4.3 / 5
Web Developer

"The work atmosphere was fun and challenging with a team of wonderful people. I only wish Sony didn't have a policy of not renewing contractors or I would have stayed much longer."

Person You Work For 3.3 / 5 People You Work With 3.3 / 5 Work Setting 3.3 / 5
Support You Get 3.3 / 5 Rewards You Receive 3.3 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3.3 / 5
Company Culture 3.3 / 5 Way You Work 3.3 / 5
Solutions Architect

What do you like about working at Sony?

"I like the fact that at Sony, you get to work with high caliber people, enjoy a flexible work environment and work on state of the art technology."

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

"You should have high skill levels and talent and be smart and reliable."

What don't you like about working at Sony?

"Your career progression is slow, and promotional possibilities are good but not fast."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Pay more attention to your teams, and be more customer-oriented."

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 3 / 5
Company Culture 5 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Software Project Manager

What do you like about working at Sony?

"Great experience, nice environment, big benefit, and always in a good relation"

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

"it's a great company to learn and to pursue for a start of your career"

What don't you like about working at Sony?

"not too many growth opportunities for young ambitious staff, slow decision making processes"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"increase speed of reaction to environment, and empower for growing business"

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 4 / 5
Company Culture 4 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5
Maintenance Technician

What do you like about working at Sony?

"I liked this company, but It was almost over for the organization existance"

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

"I would like to have great managers as I did in SONY they where great."

What don't you like about working at Sony?

"I would love to work there on an earlier times"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Nothing they where pretty good and are very cool people"

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 4 / 5
Company Culture 4 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5
Senior Systems Architect

What do you like about working at Sony?

"Big company, lots of interesting projects, Flat organization. Good networking."

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

"Be sure your position is in a high growth business, not a decline."

What don't you like about working at Sony?

"Lots of force reduction, company is struggling to compete in consumer marketplace"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Focus more on development and new products, less on televisions and areas where the company cannot compete."

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

"Im a Fast learner gets along with everyone who has allot warehouse knowledge."

What do you like about working at Sony?

"I liked the way I was able to grow with the company"

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

"This is a great company to work and grow with."

What don't you like about working at Sony?

"I did not like the fact that layoffs had to happen"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I wish they would have found other ways of cut backs without lay offs."

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
Executive Project Manager

What do you like about working at Sony?

"Worked at my own pace and hours. Traveled alot and handled the projects myself."

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

"Have an extensive and professional background in the Exchange Engineer career."

What don't you like about working at Sony?

"The company was perfect to me, made alot of money and received good networking partners."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Hire people to do the tasks properly to decrease adminstrative overhead."

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
Senior Oracle DBA

What do you like about working at Sony?

"We use leading edge technology and training is provided for any new technology picked up for projects"

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

"The DBA should maintain their skills and ensure they are trained/experienced in the leading edge technology"

What don't you like about working at Sony?

"There are not enough DBA's available to support the systems"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"The DBA group should be staffed at the proper level to maintain the workload."

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

"Great, multicultural opportunities."

What do you like about working at Sony?

"I enjoyed the opportunity to make a difference in product and process quality. The multicultural environment was also a great setting."

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

"Let them know how well-rounded you are and how you fit into a multicultural environment."

What don't you like about working at Sony?

"I wish that I were still working at Sony Electronics."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Help to envision the future better for products and competition."

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

"Fantastic"

What do you like about working at Sony?

"~ managed eight Supervisors and more than 200 associates responsible for handling inbound PC technical support calls for Tier 1 and Tier 2"

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

"You must be on top of your game to work for Sony"

What don't you like about working at Sony?

"The mgmt did not listen to the employees and help them grow."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Listen to the employees and help them grow to make the company a better place to work."

Person You Work For 2 / 5 People You Work With 4 / 5 Work Setting 2 / 5
Support You Get 1 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4 / 5 Growth Opportunities 1 / 5
Company Culture 3 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Category Planner

"Pleasantly Challenging"

What do you like about working at Sony?

"I had the great opportunity of working specifically with the Digital Imaging Product Group. As a photographer, that allowed me to match my passion with my position. There was good opportunity for growth and learning."

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

"Professionalism balanced with current technology and style knowledge is key for working at Sony."

What don't you like about working at Sony?

"One of the main challenges was the amount of time expected. Since I worked at the retail level of the company, there was a 24/7 - 365 need. I did find it challenging that, even on vacation, I was expected to be available."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"To be honest, the management team I worked with at Sony were some of the best people I've worked with. Given the stressful, fast paced world that was Sony online retail presence, I feel they did a great job."

Person You Work For 5 / 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
Android Application Developer

"Good exposure to Android platform."

What do you like about working at Sony?

"Very good team collaboration, great working environment, opportunity to work on large android code base."

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

"Just know about the company and its products before the interview."

What don't you like about working at Sony?

"The company is not currently making the the products that gives them a good market share in various market segments and its market share in most of the products has drastically declined."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"It should look for reducing the price of the products and consider changing its market strategies like focusing on Ad revenue with services instead of monthly charge for the services.(like making Sony Network Entertainments services free instead of monthly service charge etc)."

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 3 / 5
Company Culture 5 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
IT Services Engineer

What do you like about working at Sony?

"I love working at Sony because I get to learn more how to fix complicated laptop issues"

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

"Working for Sony is a good company to advance your career"

What don't you like about working at Sony?

"I have nothing that I do not like about Sony"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"The management team is great and they should keep up the good work"

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
Senior Financial Analyst

What do you like about working at Sony?

"I like to clear the issues and contribute to the company by providing financial information. So that management can make appropriate business decisions."

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

"This company is big organizations and so many different people are working. So even if you cannot get what you want, just try to another within the company."

What don't you like about working at Sony?

"Due to the economy, some of business functions are downsized."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"We should think about customers' needs and satisfaction. so It will increase company revenue and we share the fruits."

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

Sony Reviews FAQs

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.

What is the highest paying job at Sony?

According to our data, the highest paying job at Sony is a Executive Vice President at $500,000 annually. Browse Sony Salaries by Job Profile.

What is the lowest paying job at Sony?

According to our data, the lowest paying job at Sony is a Shipping and Receiving Clerk at $16,000 annually. Browse Sony Salaries by Job Profile.

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