Hitachi is the home of the most chaotic working environment I've ever encountered. Disorganised and lacking process, the company excuses the shambles it is by telling the staff that these are 'growing pains' and yet nothing is done to fix them, many of these issues are long standing but are kept with the 'thats the way we've always done it mentality'. Anyone who dares to suggest that there is something seriously wrong is made to feel that they are not a team player and staff employee survey results are often edited to make them look significantly better to bolster that view.
I personally have never worked anywhere where literally every member of the Executive Team is gunning for everyone else and pretending that they aren't. It's entertaining watching them all stab each other in the back whilst smiling across at their victims but makes for a bad working environment. The resulting lack of leadership is dispiriting but is swept under the carpet by the Executive Team who are all having such a good time avoiding each others knives and patting themselves on the back (along with the large bonuses that this brings) that they don't care about the soul destroying lack of morale in the office. On top of that an intentional disconnect has been created between the UK and Japan allowing egos in the UK to be able to run unchecked
Echoing another commenters view, I'd agree that HR are a joke. Members of the senior HR team who should be working on the various issues amongst the staff seem to be permanently out of the office on various charity expeditions - whilst I was there there was an eight week period of time when one member of the HR senior Leadership came in once.
Bids are often massively under resourced, often submitted late and there is a continual leaning towards making it up on the 'back of a cigarette packet' with no communication between finance and Sales often meaning that the numbers and pricing would be completely off of where they should be.
Staff pay lower across the board than Industry averages - if you are stupid enough to accept a job here negotiate a good salary going in as you will never get it reviewed again in spite of promises to the contrary. If you are told your salary will be reviewed six months after joining - it won't be.
