Q&A With Hitachi Vantara Employees

Analytics, storage is dead

The HR department is growing the fastest with all the packages they are giving people, its legal and HR.

IoT - services is having difficulties with the new culture. There is an inherent attitude of system sales and not solution sales. many of the sales teams just sell boxes and services, not moving gracefully to solutions

Exciting in some places, repressive in others, some people are just stupid and lack any real experience in there jobs, those are called managers and directors.

Too political in many cases. No chance for advancement, especially if you are not at HQ.

now - low morale. There is no sense of security in your position. With the changes being made, even the highest contributors in the company are at risk of losing their job

I would fire the entire development organization and out source there functions to Wipro. Then I would fire anyone from Canada Or EMEA who is in management and hire people who actually know what they are doing.

not sure it can be fixed

A more concerted effort needs to be made to include customer partners in your business changes. Isolating and excluding the customer base from these major directional shifts in business only alienates your customers and turns them from partners to just a transaction

Great 401k

401K match, health/dental/vision, 3 weeks vacation to start, 8 hours volunteer time

medical, dental, vision, wellness, many extra things like 401k, legal, gym memberships, etc...

Dont know, I never was interviewed.

It has been over 10 years. Recollection of the process is that is was an informal interview - meeting the hiring manager face to face one time with multiple peer and executive interviews to follow.

Arduous. Too much time and too many interviewers.

The old CEO was awesome - the new one is cutting everyone's jobs...

With the "transformation" currently going on, decisions made or mandated have been ill-informed and poorly executed. The wrong people have been let go and customers are voicing their objections. The top down structural decision making without consultation from the ranks or even really knowing what the rank and file do day-to-day is proving to be catastrophic.

He's new and not as dynamic as the previous CEO, but I can attribute that to language and cultural differences.

There is none there is a word that means work yourself to death, that is what is expected from you at Hitachi.

There is no work/life balance at Hitachi. With the freedom to work remotely, the expectation is that you are available 7x24 to take a call from a superior, a colleague or a customer. Every issue from a customer is a critical situation demanding a response or an escalation. Balance is a great talking point for the executive team, but no where near a reality for those actually working the business.

It is a legacy company now, so would not

Pay is good and benefits are great, but the products are the best,.

They are easy to get around as they were only reading my resume when I got there, they did not prep. Easy to spot

Can you speak Japanese ?

Just found out that I was underpaid by about $20K or more per year. So, not great.

Below that of competing companies; also, raises are non-existent.

Unless you are in management, it is low

Above average if you are outside the major metro areas

It used to be great! Now with the changes and different attitudes, everyone seems to be building their own fifedoms - there is significant dissatisfaction within the ranks and morale is low.

Was great - lately those competent enough to make a difference have been let go

yes - may of the sales, management and support positions have remote opportunities

yes - a majority of sales and sales support positions are remote

protective and secretive. No longer is the company truly open. Even if the executive team swear up and down to transparency, there is no trust

Collaborative, everyone (with some exceptions) wants to move the company forward and will go above and beyond expectations.

For the most part dedicated and willing to help. In a lot o areas however, they were territorial and willing to do anything to make sure their part of the business succeeds without regard to any other part of the business.

They conduct a background check using a third party. No drug test, at least not in the US.

Speak Japanese.

2018 was my experience. The High ded HSA was a great option. The company paid into it and it was a good deal. Id say they were a bit high overall compared to other companies but still competitive.

Hiring manager, VP, HR

standard as they did not prepare at all, weakness strengths

Negotiation as basic salaries are low.

Look at leaving, however, make the most of it and work towards gaining as much out of it for your next role outside Hitachi. Most of the good people have left recently including senior management as that part of the business is a minor line item on the balance sheet for corporate. If you are in storage run for the hills, the cloud is where it is at.

Hire a bunch of legal staff.