Pros
You can network with a lot of physicians. You also get hands on clinical experience with little to no prior experience required.
Cons
Where do I begin? They pay their employees around $44k out of college with no experience which sounds great to a naive fresh grad, however, this is approximately $20k less than their competitors starting salaries. This job requires you to be available from 6am to 6pm Monday through Friday which is 60 hours a week that you are required to be available in case of a last minute add on. Also you don't know where you will be working (what hospital or when you have to be at said hospital) until 6-7pm the night before. These 60 hours a week does not include the additional call hours you will be required to take which is from 6pm to 6am during week days and 24 hours on weekends. Yes the call is rotated between techs, however, most of the time the person on call was still on their own case and therefore you would have to take additional call as well to finish the case you were assigned. This happened more often than not and cases would often times go well into the night, sometimes past midnight. If a tech was on call late at night often times due to the short staff situation the tech would still have to report to their case the following morning which usually meant being at the hospital at 6am. Our manager tried to work with as much as possible but it was extremely difficult to get any help because they simply don't hire enough people to cover their workload. This job requires you to work mostly alone in an extremely cold operating room with the occasional rare lunch break if someone's case was lucky enough to get cancelled. Do not expect to get lunch every day because that does not happen. Cases can last anywhere from an hour to 12+ hours with no restroom breaks, snack breaks or mental breaks. You monitor your screen live by yourself so there's no chance of stepping out to make a quick phone call or to drink water. I had to intentionally dehydrate myself so that I could go more than several hours without restroom breaks. The upper management in Texas and especially Oklahoma are clueless about keeping their employees happy which is why they can't keep techs past a year. If the upper management actually listened to their employees on how to improve things then maybe things would be different but they simply don't care they just want you to monitor as many cases as they can squeeze out of you. It won't be long before this company folds if they continue down the same path. If you are considering a job in neuromonitoring I'd seriously look at a different company.