Chaotic - Software Engineer Boston Scientific Employee Review

2.0
Feb 24, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

• Decent salary. • Decent Benefits. • Experience working in a large site. • Great variety of work. • Some really smart colleagues working here. • Galway site going through a significant growth cycle.

Cons

• Majority of staff are on contracts from resourcing companies without benefits & with differing rates of pay and limited opportunity to convert to permanency. • A lot of old legacy code that will never be updated due to risk and FDA regulation. • Manufacturing mentality means a Software Engineer is a resource and there will rarely ever be more than one Software resource assigned to a project. • Software Development processes and architecture are not treated with any importance and are non-existent. • As mentioned above the manufacturing mindset also means there is rarely any downtime. • Personal boundaries are not respected in my experience. Employees are very likely to be contacted on their personal phones outside hours or while they are on annual leave. • Working weekends\long hours is a norm in this organisation and as such it is taken for granted. • It's an old boys club. An example of this is that out of about 8 to 10 directors only HR has a female director. • Significant amount of staff turnover.

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Pros

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Cons

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