Incredible Mission - High Performance Culture - Anonymous employee Ceribell Employee Review

The mission is at the core of what makes Ceribell a great place to work. It attracts top talent who are passionate about the outcomes. Over the years of growth and change, there have been growing pains, and I've seen first-hand the positive impact of aligning goals across teams, and I've seen the primary pain points being addressed.

This environment can be stressful; there's a lot of work to do, and competing priorities. However, for my experience, I've seen first hand and I trust that Sr Leadership has taken feedback to heart to create and sustain meaningful change. Over the past year, I've seen optimization of worfklows, improvements in strategic alignment of goals, in decision-making authority, and responsiveness by Sr Leadership to accurately diagnose their own role in creating some of that burden. I've seen them lift and sustain changes that reduce some of that friction. I'm bought in; there's a lot of work to do, but I feel empowered to make impacts that will lead to positive outcomes for our teams and, ultimately, for the patients that use our product.

Truly innovative product with real potential to completely change care paradigm forever. Benefits are solid, people are very smart, and a lot of employees genuinely care about the mission.

Day-to-day is constant crisis mode. Everyone is hair on fire, all the time, and a lot of it comes down to the CEO's management style built on chaos and whiplash. There’s no clear direction or strategy. It’s “throw stuff at a wall and see what sticks,” except you or your team is the wall. The executive turnover / resignations tells the story better than any internal memo ever will. Chief People Officer lasted a few months. Chief Business Officer lasted about a year. Several VPs and/or Heads of important functions have also turned over very quickly. That’s not “a few bad hires”. That’s a pattern. If your job requires dealing with the CEO regularly, you will be asked for the near-impossible, you will sprint nonstop, and when you inevitably can’t hit an ever-moving target, you’ll be blamed for it. If you’re more junior level and insulated from the top, it can be a decent place to work. Smart coworkers, good intentions, and real passion for the mission. But at the mid-levels and up, once you’re consistently exposed to the CEO and her enablers, engagement drops off a cliff and the job becomes miserable. The culture turns into survival. If you’re considering a Director + role here, do not. Stay far, far away.