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Modernizing Medicine

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CMO will be the downfall of the company. - Anonymous employee Modernizing Medicine Employee Review

2.0
Mar 10, 2015
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Modernizing Medicine has started out with a great vision to make doctors life easy. To change medicine. The cofounders have a real vision. The company is trying really hard to make everyone happy and to enjoy their job. They provide a lot of benefits and perks (freebies). They are also very involved in the community. There is a great group of people who work here and care about their job.

Cons

One issue that is blatantly obvious is the chief medical officer and cofounder lack of control. It is great that he is passionate. But he acts and reacts to situations which for years now is causing more problems in development than is necessary. The company keeps trying to develop a logical strategy to how new development and bug fixes will be dealt with. It was hard at first to get both cofounders on board at first to stop reacting and start being proactive. The CEO is logical and has come around and doesn't disrupt development, instead he helps look for solutions. It doesn't hurt that he is also well-versed in java. But continually the CMO interrupts development, side-tracking scheduled features/improvements/fixes. He reacts to his own personal opinion instead of listening to that of others who have more knowledge in the area. He acts on emotion. Granted there are times when emergency interventions need to be made, but by acting on emotions we have taking 3 steps back to go 1 step forward. The product development has become so disorganized even with PM and TD leading. The CMO changes everything on the road map and the lead PM does not stand up to him and it is constantly changing. This is why we are so disorganized and we never know what is going on.

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1.0
May 12, 2026
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Pros

The strongest aspect of the company is the resilience and talent of many of its individual contributors. I worked with smart, creative people who consistently found ways to keep critical functions operating despite significant operational and resource constraints. The environment offered extensive hands-on experience with complex systems, cross-functional dependencies, and high-volume operational problem solving. Employees often gained rapid professional growth simply because they were required to manage responsibilities well beyond the scope of their formal roles.

Cons

The company’s operational philosophy often seemed to confuse endurance with effectiveness. Employees were expected to absorb expanding responsibilities indefinitely, even when workloads had clearly exceeded sustainable limits. In some cases, entire operational domains were effectively owned by a single individual with little redundancy, limited support, and no realistic contingency planning. Leadership frequently discussed innovation and growth while failing to address basic organizational health issues such as staffing adequacy, process ownership, and burnout prevention. Months of excessive workload and escalating pressure resulted in predictable employee exhaustion, yet meaningful intervention from management or HR never materialized. There was also a noticeable tendency to treat systemic operational failures as isolated employee challenges instead of acknowledging broader leadership and resourcing problems. This created an environment where highly capable people spent more time compensating for organizational instability than performing strategic work.

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