Sony Employee Job Reviews in the United States

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 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"

"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"

"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."

"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."

"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"

"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."

"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."

"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"

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."

"Once you get to a position, it is hard to advance...not many opportunities for growth"

What don't you like about working at Sony?

"Marketing support"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Need more communication w/ manufacturing and marketing"

"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"

"Good Corporation to work."

What do you like about working at Sony?

"The environment was awesome/organized/customer service"

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

"Be on time....and be ready for the worst."

What don't you like about working at Sony?

"not enough opportunities to grow."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"more opportunities to grow"

What do you like about working at Sony?

"Employees were taken care of."

What don't you like about working at Sony?

"Genuine care for customers"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Avoid loosing Talents"

"Nice place to work at first then difficult as industry collapsed"

What do you like about working at Sony?

"At first Sony was populated by the best technical people available. As time progressed non-technical management chased the good technical people away and life became difficult for the few competent people remaining."

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

"Be very careful how you dress."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Promote technical people to management positions over technical people and leave sales managers in sales."