At Penumbra, Cutting Corners Isn't Cheating If You Won't Get Caught - Engineer Penumbra Employee Review

The only type of thing you're not allowed to do at Penumbra is something that could result in a finding during an audit. Is a change or investigation memo using cherrypicked data? Leaving out important details? Explicitly being made to cover up product performance issues? Claiming effectiveness with insufficient evidence? So long as it isn't likely to be caught or challenged by an auditor, you're good. In the words of our Compliance department: "The FDA doesn't usually look at that, so it should be fine." If you've worked at another medical device company before this, you might not last long at Penumbra. Because of this, Penumbra has generally tried to hire people straight out of college who won't feel comfortable questioning "The Penumbra Way".