Kowa Reviews

Compensation is much lower than market rate, five sick days per year, extremely inflexible hours (leaving even five minutes requires signing off from upper management for ANY position, and 2 hours of paid or unpaid time off is taken), toxic office culture, lack of opportunities for growth

* Management is dishonest, and will change the rules of the game at their whim to the employee's disadvantage. * There are Japanese managers that are racist toward non-Japanese at Kowa. This becomes apparent when double standards are observed. * The company is very poor at providing feedback to employees. * HR staff will rat on you to management for petty infractions, e.g., returning from lunch 5 minutes late. This will greatly harm your morale. * Poor work environment. Office is old and grungy with 1960's style office partitions, poor lighting, few windows, and carpet that should have been replaced 15 years ago.