Working at Hitachi in Santa Clara, CA: 15 Employee Job Reviews by Real Employee working in Santa Clara, CA Area

"The company culture and ethics were excellent. Hitachi offered competitive compensation and benefits. Overall, Hitachi was a very good place to work."

"For the past 8 years, I have worked in increasing levels of field marketing responsibility for Hitachi Data Systems, a $4B, 4000-person high-tech (data storage) subsidiary of Hitachi Ltd. My current charter is to drive demand and revenue for a 26-state, 8-district sales division in the US."

"I worked at HDS for over 10 years, it's not a great place to work since there is a lot of office politics and great work is not appreciated. The management does not care about the hard work and loyalty of an employee. The company spends a ton of money just to get 'Best places to work' tag which is not true is reality."

"In my opinion the company needs to focus more on the tasks at hand and eliminate the unnecessary personal issues that seem to drive the company and determine how things get done."

"I developed architectures and strategies for highly available, secure and resilient infrastructures in heterogeneous IT environments, in a wide variety of industries working in over 20 countries worldwide; virtually anywhere IT is mission critical to business success. I created successful strategies for large infrastructure consolidations at over 3 dozen organizations. These consolidations drove significant economies of scale, reduced operating expense several billions of dollars."

What do you like about working at Hitachi?

"The opportunity to assist in Sales and work closely with the customers."

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

"I would suggest you look elsewhere for employment, due to the fact I am the best fit."

What don't you like about working at Hitachi?

"They focused more on profitablity and less on relationship building."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Make time to listen to all around and over communicate ."

"5 years ago they are a great place to work. Now they are just a stable paycheck"

What do you like about working at Hitachi?

"Stable, profitable company with strong committment to work-life balance.Strong culture of collaboration makes it a pleasure to work with peers."

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

"They want technically competent people who don't make waves. They do value experience and do hire seasoned workers."

What don't you like about working at Hitachi?

"Moving to a very tops down management style. The company used to listen to the employees more. Now it is much more just do what we tell you."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"The EC should set strategic direction and listen more to those at the execution level."

What do you like about working at Hitachi?

"Very thorough engineering, pride in one's work, willingness and resources to invest in new technology."

"Very pedestrian thinking with lots of resources"

What do you like about working at Hitachi?

"Travel and International Business Development"

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

"its all about budget planning sophistication"

What don't you like about working at Hitachi?

"Old style customers dictated the agenda."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Out of the box thinking and try to develop without throwing lots of money at it."

"There is no longer a division in California."

"Hitachi is a very good place to work and due to recent economic transitions they are pretty stable."