How is Samsung, for a early stage career? How is the Samsung Brand for career? I am looking for a good Brand as well, that can help me in future to land interviews at Google, Facebook easily (after 1-2 years). Also, when do they planning to get back to office? Currently I am working in a no name startup, maybe it can be a unicorn soon. But have bad wlb. TC : ₹14 lpa (Not Tekion) #engineering #software #swe
Not a good choice for early stage in career. Had joined Samsung as fresher after getting PPO in SRI-b. Left after 6 months due less learning and slow work.
Where did you join after SRIB
There's lot of learning opportunities, it depends on individual.
Depends on the team, don't listen to generalized statements here. I know people who left within 6 months and also people who are very happy with their work and team and have published multiple research papers.
How is it for someone interested in backend development? I heard SRIB has lot of divisions. Do we get to choose our teams? Sorry if question seems a bit stupid, I'm a fresher
Support what vlMH67 has said above. Depends on the team. Some team have very good work culture and can provide you adequate learning opportunities, while in some teams you can just chill and enjoy life. Regarding interview calls later, Samsung as a brand has good reputation so you will get calls from IT giants in India easily. For FB however you might have to switch or get lucky.
Agree with all. Just that, you can still get a call from FB while being in samsung. Source: personal experience
Shit co. to begin. Try FAANG.
Honestly speaking, Samsung is a good company. It depends on teams. one thing for sure, Samsung has not been in good reputation for Full stack development like other tech giants. They use their own tech space and I think it's good to start. Good WLB. Good Learning. But if you want growth here, I guess that takes some time.
NOT recommended. Try to avoid SRIB at all cost. The overall attitude of people at SRIB is pathetic. People rarely reply to your emails. Senior members are getting promoted based on age and most of them are good for nothing. Work is team specific. Most of the teams work on cutting edge technology but some team work on technology that is highly specific to Samsung and no other org works on that. TC is not comparable to top tech companies. Benefits are laughable. Employee discounts are a scam. You get better discount at Amazon. Lot of bias based on your college is also present (good if you’re from IIT). Unnecessary pressure to complete competency tests (they’re not that difficult though). The worst part is their IT infra and HR policies. They use internet explorer for everything. For chats they have their own application which sucks. Meetings are terrible. Lot of communication is on telephone/mobile rather than slack. Extreme level of security, to the point that the experience of employees gets hampered. You can’t take your laptop outside, can’t bring personal devices inside, etc. Also, I would say SRIB is a frugal org. They hardly spend anything on employee well-being. Lastly, the engineering culture at SRIB is really bad, management suck and their is rarely any support. Their covid situation management was pathetic, they were on hiring freeze, employees were forced to take leave and many were asked to look for jobs in SSIR and other orgs. Initially there was no WFH infrastructure. Even after some time into covid situation, employees were forced to work from office. If you have no other options and SRIB offer is 20-30% better than your current job then you can join temporarily and leave ASAP.
I agree on college bias part though. :) Didn't know they were on hiring freeze. Found lot of new joinees in my team last year.
Yeah they were on hiring freeze around July 2020. They are not on hiring freeze anymore. They even postponed joining of those new hires who were supposed to join in July 2020 to some time in 2021 if I remember correctly. This year there is a great push for hiring.
It all depends on the team. Samsung as a brand has good repo. I have seen my teammates switching to Google/Amazon/Microsoft etc. Currently they started opening offices with 30% occupancy. May be by January 2022 they will open with 100%
Thanks for the information! Also, I heard that, there’s less learning at Samsung, is it true?