Difficult and Frustrating Work Environment
Pros
Compensated well, good PTO and ok benefits, flexible (can go to appointments, etc). Vaguely worded mission is benevolent.
Cons
Since the beginning (before the Hillrom acquisition), the entire work experience has been extremely difficult and frustrating. - There are central processes and tools, but barely half the company uses them because of the poorly completed acquisition integrations. Hillrom was just the biggest and most visible example. - Teams are extremely siloed due to different locations, flexible work policies, rigid team structures, offshoring, and a total unwillingness of most employees to trust or work with other teams and departments. There is no trust because anything that is agreed to is then used as a weapon by the PMO group to explain delays for the other team. Or the person who agrees to it is laid off shortly after. - There is no vision for the company. “We want to have every device in the hospital room” is not a vision. There is no focus on detailed problems, pain points, workflows, and solutions. Just a couple sentence explanation from upper management and then a deadline. - The processes that do exist are painful, slow, and cumbersome. That is not a total barrier, but not all teams adhere to them, which makes other teams and employees that are adhering to them choose not follow them, causing confusion for everyone. - Tons of offshoring. Quality of work from offshore employees is poor overall. - Finding information out about an existing product is a scavenger hunt of finding the right person. There is no central wiki or confluence with product information.
