Sony Employee Job Reviews in the United States

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."

"Great while it lasted!!!"

What do you like about working at Sony?

"This was the company where I finished my education."

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

"Try to get the job."

What don't you like about working at Sony?

"It ended."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Keep up the good work."

"Sony is a good company to work for"

What do you like about working at Sony?

"Sony have flexible schedule and good employee discounts on Sony products"

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

"Be prepared"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"No Micromanagement"

"Entertainment is not a stable environment in the Economy, it would be wise to wait."

What do you like about working at Sony?

"I was able to always be busy, and I enjoyed what I did"

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

"For now, stay away from Entertainment until the economy picks up."

What don't you like about working at Sony?

"I was not there for that long, laid off"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Don't hire people if the money is not there."

"Didn't enjoy working there."

What do you like about working at Sony?

"Nothing"

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

"Look elsewhere for work."

What don't you like about working at Sony?

"Everything"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"They need to do a much better job of training new employees. Everything is difficult."

"A great place to work"

What do you like about working at Sony?

"A solid brand to support"

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

"Be aware of the corporate culture and their values"

What don't you like about working at Sony?

"I was outsourced to another company"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Hire locally"

"Great career growth potential and employee friendly atmosphere"

What do you like about working at Sony?

"The people and management"

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

"Good compnay to work for"

What don't you like about working at Sony?

"Constantly changed locations"

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!"

"Best company I have ever worked for."

What do you like about working at Sony?

"What's not to like Great products, people, company."

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

"If you can get in, you will love it."

What don't you like about working at Sony?

"Getting caught up in the recent down sizing."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Less bureaucracy, more face time with the customers"

What do you like about working at Sony?

"oportunities for advancing were good."

"Excellent place to work"

What do you like about working at Sony?

"Freedom to apply own ideas"

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

"Fast Pace"

What don't you like about working at Sony?

"It is to far from San Diego"

"Fun place to work."

"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."