Samsung chair imprisoned and 24 others found guilty in union-busting case

~2010 I worked at Samsung headquarters for a week or so. Other than the backstabbing corporate nature of the place, the degree to which employee autonomy was reduced in all ways (residential situation, transportation, highly regimented schedule, physical security inspections) was shocking. Very glad to leave.

Do you mean you were there as an independent contractor or something or did you actually get hired and then quit that fast due to how unbearable it was?

I'm surprised to hear about how awful the situation in the company is, never realized Samsung was quite that bad. Really disheartening, especially since I'm a big fan of their devices as a mass-produced option. Might look into some alternatives now.

Our company was providing a very high profile application level solution operating between many Samsung divisions across three countries (US/Korea/India) and multiple US carriers' backend services. It was the flagship DRM video application for the US launch of the Galaxy device series. Interesting project politically, wouldn't do it again.

If you work for a Samsung subsidiary, SEA or SRA being the most likely if you're US based, you'll likely end up making the trip to Suwoon at least once a year for various workshops. It's entirely likely they went over for a week and then came back once the workshop was over.

If you can get SVP or above approval for the VIP pass it makes 98% of the security headache and digital city ingress and egress vastly more streamlined. I wont go back without one anymore.