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• Developed and executed research projects on usable privacy and security, and user experience
• Worked with engineering, design, and product at multiple stages of research and development
• Tasks included identifying problems and needs, creating research questions, designing user
studies, building interface prototypes, recruiting participants, administering user studies, analyzing user data, delivering timely findings, coordinating with developers for implementation, and writing research papers
• Project 1: Providing privacy control and awareness to users in mobile applications
• Project 2: Examining privacy concerns and ways to mitigate them in recommender systems
• Project 3: Unlocking privacy-related decision making and user experience in smart technologies

Unorganized and dysfunctional.

Totally chaotic. Can't make progress because people are stepping all over everyone else's feet. Infighting abounds. Managers don't have a clue of the technical details and thus make unrealistic and unreasonable requests and misguided assertions which requires worker's time to try to explain often to no avail--managers want stupid things done, thus stupid things must be done and when it isn't successful the workers will be blamed.

The IT department is marked by  constant connectivity outages, lack of flexibility in how you can setup your work environment.

Apple need not worry. This place is a mess.

I love this company, the culture, the time, the kind of work they do, 
the way how they treat their employees with respect and the opportunities to progress in or out of the company depending of your status, (contractor or FT). 
This is a busy place for work but it will provide you a great gratification at the end of the hard work.

One more thing, If you are an interaction designer, be ready to visit Korea if you work for CX lab. 

A+ company.

–J.

Management, from the top-tier down, show little interest in professional personnel beyond going through the minimum motions. HR is a joke; all-hands meetings range from the most amateurish talent contests to fumbling presentations by executives and staff scientists and engineers who could have achieved better results by mailing in their pitch.

After 4 years with SRA, it appears to me that the only thing the company is truly serious about is cutting costs without recourse to the impact this has on innovation and professional development.

joined with the intention of driving innovation and conducting impactful research. However, the reality turned out to be quite different. The focus quickly shifted toward short-term production tasks, often without a clear or consistent vision. Expectations frequently changed in unrealistic ways, and it often felt like there was no clear understanding of why I was hired. Additionally, the organization suffers from poor management decisions, including hiring individuals lacking the necessary expertise or professionalism for leadership roles.

Typical day consisted of me setting up laptops for new hires or break-fixes. If it was a slow day, my manager would try to find me things to do. He made me do special assignments that had no value at all.

I learned basic computer troubleshooting.

Management needs better communication with their team.

Co-workers are nice, however they tend to put off work and try to pass it on to others. The term "throw under the bus" was used many times.

Hardest part was figuring out what to do.

Most enjoyable was actually working on computers

Days are semi-predictable.
Learned so many skills in negotiation and politics.
Management is very understanding and highly intelligent.
Co-workers are the best in the business.
Hardest part of the job is the commute and the massive amount of bureaucratic processes.
Enjoyable part is the excitement of the new ideas and the pace.

it is not for professional early stage career development. people who are newbie will try to do as much as possible and try to be promoted quickly. but only Korean can have the chance gor the most time. 


I like the pace of Samsung: fairly fast but not aggressive. I learnt a great deal from the position. 

They have a great cafeteria: you can choose from a variety of good food and only pay half of the price

Great workplace with helpful people and managers. The company is sort of a closed-door company - doesn't hire or fire much.
Though, the pay is close to industry standards, it is definitely beloe big-tech companies.

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