ITOCHU Reviews

3.5

58% would recommend to a friend

(130 total reviews)
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Masahiro Okafuji

77% approve of CEO

69% positive business outlook

ITOCHU has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 130 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The ITOCHU employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Energy, mining, utilities industry (3.5 stars).

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130 reviews
2.0
15 May 2017

Historic Company with Outdated Practices

Anonymous employee
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Pros

You will never be laid off for incompetence.

Cons

Lots of incompetent people. No understanding of American business culture. No effort to understand American business culture. No opportunities for advancement unless you are a Japanese national. Very limited advancement opportunities for women in the company. Not customer focused. Too much focus on outdated business practices. Very poor adoption of new technology. Strong opposition to any changes. Many layers of middle level management who do not think and do not add any value at all. There are clear and very apparent discriminatory practices against women and against non-Japanese staff.

3.0
9 Jun 2012

Great place to start. Bad place to finish.

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Lots of variety and exposure to many types of projects. Solid pay and benefits. High level of professionalism and expectations. Demands both broad and deep understanding of your particular market or product. Despite some structural and cultural challenges, there are a lot of great people working here. Company has a unique, "different than the rest" culture.

Cons

Typical, long salary-man hours. Monoculture: recruits too many sports-types from major Japanese universities. Complete lack of vision in upper management. Company values self-sacrifice (self-destruction?) and group-loyalty over individual performance. No job description, so main working-level people have to do EVERYTHING. Company suffocates itself with lots of unnecessary admin and internal reporting. You will only advance in this company if you are Japanese AND male.

1.0
24 Oct 2017

Worst work Culture totally Indian company....

Anonymous employee
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Pros

1. only brand name in japan

Cons

1. No good business in india only running through Japan very small company. 2. No Carrier growth. 3. Work culture is very bad specially in Gurgaon office, like torture 4. Full hold by old staff who worked more than 10 years specially in Finance & Admin department, worst to work in F&A. 5. Policies and procedures are very bad not for employee favour. 6. No Management control over the company policy 7. All employees are not happy with the company policies and culture dominating culture 8. You can be sacked any time for silly mistakes or discussion.

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