Vantaggi
-Free parking, good location in the heart of the silicon forest. Except it’s medical device, not software. -Benefits are good. Standard PTO to start (3.5 weeks) that goes up the more years you put in with the company. Healthcare premiums are good, but not as great and outstanding as leadership would have you believe. Pretty standard 6% 401K match. 8 Hours of volunteer time a year is kind.
Svantaggi
First, I want to say that anyone reading these reviews should pay close attention to the dates of posting. Notice the recent uptick in positive reviews? Notice how generic and similarly worded they are? As another review has pointed out, it would appear that leadership is planting positive reviews to offset the (accurate) negative ones. All of the negative complaints posted in the last two years, and especially in the last 6 months, should be looked at as accurate representations of Acumed’s culture. -You will be poor if you work here: Compare any job listing with Acumed to similar jobs in the Portland Metro area (or even just domestically), and Acumed doesn’t pay the median of market value. They pay BOTTOM of the range, if not severely below the range, depending on the position. This has been a complaint for years, and while job grades and descriptions were audited in 2016, clearly, it was done incorrectly, as people are still leaving in droves for more lucrative offers in the area (so, often times, changing careers) and HR is forced to stick another finger in the leaking dam. Thankfully, HR is bloated enough that they can stop the leaks...temporarily. -Messaging Spoken Doesn't Match Actions: Your job is secure they tell us, after laying off positions and then rehiring those positions with people from other medical device companies. You are paid fairly, they tell us, after we look at Glassdoor, LinkedIn Pro and Salary.com to find that we are not (most positions are 30%-60% off of midline). We don’t have the funds right now to raise wages, they tell us, after pumping funds into an onsite gym and a fancy new lobby. -Your Voice Doesn’t Matter: Employee engagement is ignored. Surveys were sent out quarterly, then yearly, to see how people felt about the company and to gauge if improvements were being made, yet important criticisms are not being handled, while simple ones like implementing summer hours, installing a gym on one (not both) campus, and bringing in a rent-a-cop a few days a week give the impression that changes are happening. -Entitlement of Leadership: One of my defining moments at Acumed was when one of the executives (one who, as of this review, is still there), at our monthly all staff got the company excited for our monthly sales report, hinting that we would be getting a $50 bonus due to a positive sales month. This may not seem like much, but it’s a weeks worth of groceries, or two fills of my gas tank; it’s not an insignificant amount of money. When he reached the end of his presentation he essentially said “Psyche! Better luck next month!” You could feel the hearts in the room sink as he ended his presentation and someone else took over. This was a low blow from someone who is disconnected from his workers and doesn’t remember what it’s like to not be getting a million+ year salary. Most of the executives and leaders who believed in, and lived Acumed’s mission and cared about the people who keep it afloat, trickled away in the last couple years. The ones left that seem to actually care are down to the VP’s of Manufacturing and Sales Ops. Most of the ET are cutthroat individuals who would can, and have, cut entire departments around the holidays and fired someone with a newborn (two weeks old). Yet they stand up in front of us and say how they put the PEOPLE in the company first, and how rare that is in an employer and hey, don’t worry, your job is secure. A lot has to change before this company gets better and truly puts value in the people that make it run.