Tosoh Reviews

3.3

62% would recommend to a friend

(63 total reviews)

Takashi Tsuchiya

92% approve of CEO

56% positive business outlook

Tosoh has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 63 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Tosoh employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.5 stars).

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63 reviews
1.0
21 Dec 2021

Get out fast

Recommend
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Pros

Low standards and high turnover means you can use the company as a springboard to boost your pay somewhere else. That's pretty much it. Do not linger here.

Cons

First off, terrible pay and frankly insulting raises. You can fully expect that they won't even beat inflation in any given year, so after the first year you're actually making less than what you started at. Low standards and high turnover means the company only retains the bottom of the barrel of workers, which inevitably means the incompetence in management runs clear to the top. Micromanaging like you would not believe. Very much a company that thinks it owns your life because they send you a paycheck. Work-life balance is nonexistent; you can fully expect that managers from multiple levels are working nearly every weekend and will contact you on weekends as well. Don't fall for this trap! If you respond, they'll suck you in to dealing with inconsequential work that has no business being done on a weekend. The vacation time is laughable. They talk it up like it's some big deal, but it's a lousy three weeks a year and your sick leave comes out of it. That's IF you ever get to take vacation, which I never got to do in my two years their. The equipment is all old and outdated. It does the job, but there is no future in working here. The company is too cheap to hire proper auditors, so the managers are constantly grinding away their lives reviewing paperwork. This means that getting to management level is WORSE than just staying an FSE, as you will be fully expected to throw your life away for the sake of paperwork, and you'll be underpaid on top of that. A couple of years or so at this place is the most any self-respecting person should subject themselves to, but ideally no more than a year. On more than one occasion, I coworkers leave within a few months of hiring because they realized what a wretched company this is.

1.0
31 Jan 2019

Run!

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Pay was decent and benefits were good, though health insurance was pricey.

Cons

There are 3 separate divisions of Tosoh in the Grove City location, and this skews their Glassdoor score. Be aware that you don’t know which division is being reviewed because Glassdoor doesn’t differentiate. One is Tosoh Bioscience, another is Tosoh America (corporate), and a third is Tosoh SMD. I can’t speak to the other 2, but if you’re applying for a position at Tosoh SMD, DON’T DO IT! At least half of the upper level management team are corrupt and unprofessional. Just awful, awful people who play politics, gossip, and stop others’ progress in order to make themselves look better. The division is failing financially and has been through at least 2 (possibly 3) layoffs (“reorgs”) in the past several years. After the most recent layoff in early 2018, people resigned in droves, and most who stayed were very unhappy. Open positions are due to their inability to keep people and not real growth, like they’ll tell you in the interview. There is no clear strategy to dig themselves out of the hole, except to hide losses from the board of directors and to show temporary gains by reducing headcount. None of this is apparent during the interview process - the business and people look great on the surface. Don’t be fooled.

1.0
20 Jan 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Medical coverage is the only good thing.

Cons

Will string you along with false promises and lie to you about their culture. No development. Management protects toxic people. HR will throw you under the bus to protect the company. Company has no integrity.

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