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4.2

82% would recommend to a friend

(1,336 total reviews)
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78% approve of CEO

58% positive business outlook

PlayStation has an employee rating of 4.2 out of 5 stars, based on 1,336 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The PlayStation employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Mídia e comunicação industry (3.7 stars).

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3.0
Mar 10, 2014

Harboring incompitence

Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

You don't have to worry about getting fired. They operate like a studio instead of a technology company so it's easy to get up to speed.

Cons

Good Ideas never see the light of day and bad Ideas never get killed. Japanese culture instills a process of conscious which is extremely detrimental in a technology company. No one is given decision making power.

2.0
Dec 19, 2013
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

flexible working hours; every year there is a holiday shutdown between Christmas and New Years day... that's the only pros I can think of...

Cons

too many/frequent changes at management level, senior managers/directors come and go, the working experience in the same company is not recognized by itself, incapable mid-senior management team, almost the entire DB department is called Indian team which implies its recruitment might not be a fair play, too many politics at all levels, you have career future here only if your manager likes you personally, work performance has nothing to do with it...salaries of same level engineers from different groups can be a huge difference...over the long term it's a sinking ship...

3.0
Jul 22, 2012
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

- A very good place for learning new things since a lot of freedom in provided to do work in your own way - Compensation is competitive. - Culture is very healthy and supporting for employees. - Many people stay here for long time and have really good knowledge / expertise of their domain. - Flexibility in work, office timings and work styles.

Cons

- No Clear Career path for Technical or management verticals - Senior management lacks vision and have really tough time driving any projects. - A lot of cross functional politics is driving projects to be failure or un-successful. - No Work from home option - Though you may have high expectations of this company due to high quality products like PS3 etc, there is little inspiring inside when you work with people. In relation with other companies I have worked in past (Cisco, GE Healthcare, Symantec) - At heart of this company its still stone aged in terms of technologies used inside (e.g. Lotus Notes - I hate it - trust me you will. , very mediocre intranet, no internal chat or IM, ) - No co-operation from sister concerns like SNE and others. A lot of politics in terms of who own the project/data rather then making a impact for benefit of greater Sony.

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