Good company, Toxic in Certain Areas - Quality Engineer Terumo Aortic Employee Review

Great work environment. Amazing manufacturing team led by Patricia R. the Director of Engineering.

I can think of any cons

Great workplace culture, decent pay - bonus incentives always motivating, and you do actually get them. That's a big deal. Your manager's don't set the bar ludicrously high. Lots of good things here where it matters.

As you climb higher, you begin to see how strangely management operates here: fixated on paperwork while losing all perspective on the value of automation. The obsession with avoiding “tech debt” is so extreme that they fail to notice the far greater danger: a steady backslide into inefficiency. Almost nothing is automated; nearly everything remains manual, not by necessity but by fear. Redundant documentation everywhere with a focus on documenting the problem itself in the most elegant manner rather than solving. In practice, it devolves into a cycle of constant tinkering of *paperwork* for its own sake, as though the act of change alone justifies itself. The result is a kind of negative velocity: every single step becomes heavier, slower, and more expensive until progress grinds to a halt under the weight of its own obese documentation. The actual work is reduced to a some sort of awkward robotic dance that must be performed nearly everytime anything needs to get done.