FMC Reviews

Pros

Hours, staff member are polite, and patients are good to work with

Cons

Fast pase and some what overwhelming

Advice to Senior Management

No

Pros

Clean work area, neiborhood safe

Cons

Hard to advance, was a long drive-travel time

Advice to Senior Management

look at everyone for advancement

Pros

Modern technology, room for advancement, great coworkers.

Cons

Very high volume, busy lab.

Pros

Large company, many health care facilities so there are numerous employment opportunities.

Cons

Incredibly beauraucratic. You report to many managers who will refer you from one manager to the other and never make a decion until things get out of hand. It is a healthcare company run by MBA, interested in profits more than in the provision of health services to patients. There hire far to many managers making high wages and underpay the medical technicians in comparison. I say average company because this is the nature of health care providers presently, overall.

Advice to Senior Management

Hire managers with healthcare education, experience and degrees rather than MBA and others who never worked in patient care areas who pass the buck.

Pros

They pay good, most of the people were great to work with, casual work environment (yes, we could wear jeans to work).

Cons

Lean staffing, long hours and little recognition for your efforts. No consistency with policies, annual performance reviews a joke, a majority of managers didn't even bother doing them.

Advice to Senior Management

Implement consistent policies,ensure the performance evaluations are mandatory for all employees, weed out inept managers, investigate complains of unethical manager behavior.

Pros

A place that is easy to get comfortable for a long term of employment. A friendly group of employees. Offers a better than average benefit package. Pay scales are higher than average for the area.

Cons

No growth. Dangerous chemicals at particular plant.Very little recognition for creative improvements. Management is solely focused on safety and disciplinary actions.

Advice to Senior Management

Be proactive instead of reactive. Instead of disciplining and regulating focus on rewarding innovative progress. Consider in house advancement instead of new-fruit importing of managers.

Pros

Good work life balance; good organization to see the newest technologies implemented.

Cons

Communication between sites and divisions.

Advice to Senior Management

Use best practices from all divisions to make overall organization more efficient.

Pros

Varied job content; international opportunities; freedom to organize personal and work priorities. There is quite a lot of flexibility here about when and where you work, although this can vary from team to team. I am also pretty lucky, because the people in my team are great and I have a good boss. (Much different from others I know here.)

Cons

Lack of diversity; time and resources wasted on management politics; unimaginative, conformist senior management. The worst part about working at this company is that your future depends on what one or two people think about you, not on clear criteria that can be measured. There are a lot of games that are going on here about influence and power and people are not direct with each other. There are very few women and non-white people who work here. I'm not saying this is company policy, but maybe because minorities don't fit with the image and values that these old white guys support.

Advice to Senior Management

Please stop hiring MBAs. If you really want innovation, you might actually need some scientists (believe it or not).

Pros

Excellent Salary
Good People to work with
Family environment

Cons

Benefits expensive
Limited Choices in health care options

Advice to Senior Management

Decrease medical benefits

Pros

the pay is pretty good

Cons

it would be the long hours

Advice to Senior Management

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