U - Product Manager Life Spine Employee Review

Good products and they hire great, smart people.

Have to $1 pay for snacks

Interesting work Great job to learn a lot and really do some hands on work. You’ll see projects from napkin drawings to post market monitoring. Each day you are interacting with vendor/customers, sometimes traveling. Company often has cadaver labs for learning and research purposes. At times, you will feel like an integral part of the company. People A lot of very knowledgeable and skilled employees. Pretty much every department has very sharp people who know their stuff. Facility/equipment Nice facility with rather high end equipment. Professional 3D printer, machine shop for minor adjustments, Instron machine for testing, etc. This just adds onto the interesting work. Benefits Health insurance was great Interns Company does great with finding, learning, and utilizing interns. Wish more companies did it like this. Engineering You will learn everything you need to know about designing, controlling, and manufacturing medical devices. Learning The company did a very good job at teaching employees about the human anatomy. This extended to the extent of allowing someone like interns to be able to participate in cadaver labs.

Training There was no training at all for an engineer. They just throw you a list of hundreds of SOP’s and say figure it out. Employee retention Employee retention, specifically in marketing, wasn’t great and lead to a feeling of no one’s job was ever safe. Company did a poor job at communicating when people where let go or left. Cliche Very cliche company and groups. It’s mostly good and fun but sometimes you need to have a thick skin. This extends to upper management. Projects Projects weren’t always defined well and constantly changed. Custom projects came with ridiculous timelines and turn arounds. Upper management relations Felt like there was a barrier between upper management and the employees. This extended into HR, which is meant to be an employee resource. Departmental relations At the time, the relationship between the quality and engineering departments wasn’t great. Felt like they were constantly battling each other. When something went wrong, it was a finger pointing game rather then finding the best solution. Benefits Time off given wasn’t great and personal days where encouraged to only be used for when you are sick. Your almost expected to have extra days that expire at the end of the year. Work/life balance At the time, most the people were work a holics and expected you to be. You often are working more than your 40hrs/wk. This is also a result of project deadlines and vendor issues. However, a more established person in their career could probably set their boundaries/expectations and most people would respect it. Something to keep in mind.