Working at Sony in San Diego, CA: 46 Employee Job Reviews by Real Employee working in San Diego, CA Area

"Sony was a good place to work, but difficult to be placed as a regular employee"

What do you like about working at Sony?

"I enjoyed the daily challenges in finding new bugs, workarounds, and most of all, being a part of something that made a difference in people's lives."

What don't you like about working at Sony?

"The steady shifting of engineers from one department to another."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"If you have good engineers, keep them."

What do you like about working at Sony?

"learning tools"

What don't you like about working at Sony?

"org restructure"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"listen to the employees"

"I worked 2 years as a temp for Sony and had great learning opportunities but no professional opportunities."

What do you like about working at Sony?

"I got to learn and apply a variety of Lean production techniques. There were no limits place on what techniques I could develop as long as they moved the process forward."

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

"Hire into Sony and avoid coming in via the temp agency."

What don't you like about working at Sony?

"The reluctance to hire people into the organization means losing a lot of very talented people who could greatly benefit the company."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"If someone demonstrates talent and ability, management should do everything in its power to bring them into the organization."

"Sony Corp needs to stay away from its developers in order to succeed."

"Great location and people."

What do you like about working at Sony?

"Good people to work with."

"Interesting review process."

What do you like about working at Sony?

"Enjoyed working there! Good experience all around."

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

"Be prepared to work very long hours."

What don't you like about working at Sony?

"Very long hours were expected not verbalized."

"Sony Electronics... needs some help from top down."

"Sony is every big company, I like it."

What do you like about working at Sony?

"It good place to work."

What don't you like about working at Sony?

"They have great menagement."

"Working at Sony were some of the best years of my life."

What do you like about working at Sony?

"The professional manufacturing atmosphere."

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

"Sony is very big on the team player environment."

What don't you like about working at Sony?

"The current climate of manufacturing unstableness do to third world competition."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Communication about current conditions and future forecasts to all subordinates is crucial."

"adiquate first line selectioning process"

What do you like about working at Sony?

"Gave opportunities to grow"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Consider the visions of the founders"

What do you like about working at Sony?

"Dealing with Consumer Electronics. You really get to see your work out in the masses."

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

"Technical:Unix/Linux, OOD, C/C++"

What don't you like about working at Sony?

"Very Japan Centric"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Better marketing of products."

"Good place to work and to say you worked at Sony"

What do you like about working at Sony?

"Great products, and good environment"

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

"You might have to live in Japan now that they have eleminated San Diego as an engineering center"

What don't you like about working at Sony?

"Stress, long hours and intense product development schedules"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Foster more time for families"

"Cable modem testing at its most thourough."

What do you like about working at Sony?

"I was able to develop my own multi-computer remote testing program using my own design. My boss was supportive and enthusiastic."

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

"DOCSIS testing background will help immesurably. A background in consumer electronic device testing or development will also help."

What don't you like about working at Sony?

"Upper management was conducting a war with the Sony headquarters over autonomy. This inteferred with internal company communication and diluted their management support for product development."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Accept headquarter's viewpoint and stick to your important duties. Don't let the server lead fool you as to the quality of the server software. Be sure your subordinates are actually following your lead."

What do you like about working at Sony?

"there were quite a few cool people there."

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

"doesn't matter. If you get in, you'll get paid 1/3 what you're worth and you'll be stuck there for a long time. It's a good stepping stone, though, so it may be worth the pain."

What don't you like about working at Sony?

"there were a lot of bad managers and people willing to destroy everything in their path for a chance to move up."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"focus on creating a good product, not metrics. For the execs... give your people some credit, they're the ones keeping you in business. Reward them for it once in a while!"

"Great"

What do you like about working at Sony?

"The atmosphere was great, I was doing what I liked to do, and the pay was great."

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

"If you can get a job from them still, take it."

What don't you like about working at Sony?

"Can't really think of anything here other than the fact that they had to play off 5000 people recently."