Pros
- Company strives to be the innovation leader among companies making products to treat aortic aneurysms - Ability to learn about multiple product platforms designed to treat aortic aneurysms - High value placed on customer relations leading to many opportunities to understand the real customer needs. Multiple groups of physicians, both domestic and international, visit the campus every month. - Many opportunities to make improvements to existing procedures and processes. Many people here still have a lot to learn within their functions. - Many people are hardworking and passionate about making products to help people.
Cons
- Too many organizational structure changes. Many employees are assigned to a new manager almost every year and in some cases more frequently. - Promotions are not always merit based. - Recognition of teams and individuals for achieving significant milestones is often nonexistent depending on the senior management over the project, budget constraints, or recent news - Company is still figuring out how to work across two sites, Irvine and Santa Rosa, and has been for over a year, which has led to inefficiencies in management and product development. Changing the Product Development Process twice within the last two years is also a significant contributor to project delays.