Dysfunctional Absent Leadership - Recensione dipendente - Software Engineer presso True Digital Surgery

Fast paced, freedom to implement new ideas, modern office, cool and smart people, driven teams that focus on goals, fully stocked kitchen, on-site gym, annual bonuses and raises, etc.

Sometimes projects are too ambitious.

Medical company working to improve surgical outcomes for patients. Great place to work if you want to do very little work or are good at dealing with non-technical management.

Poor work culture, engineering capabilities and extremely toxic management. Problems are usually hidden from team members because the company culture is extremely blame orientated. All of the IP is essentially bought or consulted out which means there is no custom design work for engineers who wish to contribute to the products. This also creates a technological vacuum where extremely senior engineers, who should be good individual contributors, are actually not performing at the level which their seniority suggests. This leads to problems being left unsolved or hidden for years at a time or data and tests being altered to make it seem as things are working, until they don’t. Management enables this as long as you remain on their good sides. Unfortunately, these issues show up as lack of quality and issues of products in both hardware and software domains. Hiring seems to be based on being on an in group or previous friends of management. Very little is based on true merit or hard work. There is also no real diversity at this company which I think manifests as lack of creativity and problem solving capabilities.