Avoid US operation - Anonymous employee Qcells Employee Review

1.0
8 Sept 2014
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

good exposure to PV industry, benefits are nice, lower level employees are friendly and competent

Cons

Top management team in the US does not know what they are doing. Almost every decision they make is penny wise and pound foolish. They have no strategy or vision, so they spend all their time creating contradictory approval matrices and tweaking the org chart that they are too incompetent to ever finish and release. Approval process to get anything done is too time consuming and includes too many people that do not know enough about what they are approving to even add any value.

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2.0
13 May 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

They pay for health insurance premium entirely. Contribute 2k to HSA if you opt into HDHP plan. Decent PTO + holidays

Cons

You cannot succeed here as an American. Unless you come in at upper leadership level, you must be Korean to progress. Toxic blame culture with no accountability. No collaboration across divisions, leaders only looking to further their power gain (at the expense of the company, let alone its employees). It seemed like the company actively hated their employees. 5 re-orgs in a couple years. Raises are very small (1-2%) even for high performers so salary quickly becomes much lower than market rate. You can be hired for one job and be given tasks for another. Like a completely different job. Employees not asked about transferring to other positions, it’s forced by management. Overall, very bizarre. Koreans have it better than Americans but on the flip side, they are expected to work 24/7. It’s sad for everyone.

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