Olympus Corporation of the Americas Reviews

Pros

good exposure to the in and outings of a medical device repair facility. Deep hands on experience working with endoscopic medical devices.

Cons

very little room for career growth. the duties assigned to an engineer are the same as the duties assigned to a jr, engineer.

Advice to Senior Management

wonderful experience working with management, i learned a great deal of industry standards working with Olympus; however, management should be more proactive in grooming its jr. engineers to take on more responsibilities within their assigned department and within the organization.

Pros

Olympus employees bleed Olympus blue.

Cons

Upper managment never invested in the company. Cutting edge technology not advertised.

Advice to Senior Management

Look at Nikon and Canon, not rocket science to market your product.

Pros

Amazing products, outstanding product loyalty from customers, breadth of product line, experts in field.

Cons

The company is being choked by the compliance/ legal department, everyone is trying to protect their own jobs, and not do whats best to support our customers or to build business. People are walking around wondering if they are going to have a job the following week.

Advice to Senior Management

Don't even know where to start. But you'd better put those salaries to work because the company is falling apart.

Pros

Healthcare industry. Saving lives. Learned alot about the products. I was able to make an impact that to some extent helped with diagnosis and treatment of diseases.

Cons

Pay is not comparable
Incompetent Management that lead by fear, intimidation and deception.
Unethical HR group that dismiss genuine complaints. Little to no communicaton from Manager. Managers that give orders without explanation as to why. Managers that micromanage simply to impose power and not because the subordinates are not performing. The consensus for most people in the Coproate office is that no one in upper management has a clue what they are doing. The most talented and skilled employees are being laid off.

Olympus was not always this bad. I would guess that Olympus started going down hill around 2007/2008 and it has only gotten worse. I hope they get it together and it they get back to the basics so this can once again be a wonderful place for anyone to work at.

Advice to Senior Management

Reevluate who you are laying off. You're letting go all of your talent and keeping the least knowledegeable people. How can the company succeed like this? Start to care about the little people. They are really the ones that make all the wheels turn and make things happen. Bring back the old Olympus I onces enjoyed coming to work to.

Pros

Most departments believed in their employees.

Cons

Most managers were concerned about their own advancement.

Advice to Senior Management

Listen to your employees too. The new changes that are in place now have moral at an all time low.

Pros

1) Great management at the Irving office.
2) Great teammates to work with.
3) The work is never the same.
4) You work for an industry leader.

Cons

1) The staff in Irving TX is being laid off. I personally don't like it, but then again I don't run the company. At least they were up front and gave us sometime to find new jobs.
2) Some of the business decisions Olympus has made over the years don't make any sense from a business perspective.
3) Working remotely doesn't really offer you any opportunities for growth.
4) Benefits have pretty much tanked.

Advice to Senior Management

Please allow more opportunities for growth and advance to the employees out side of the corporate office. Since I started, the benefits have gone nothing but down hill. There are no pensions for new employees, no more automatic 401K match, and mediocre health insurance. To attract good employees this will need to change especially for a company in the healthcare industry.

Pros

Close to home
Made some new friends

Cons

First HR is a joke: Complain and they tell you they will look into it. Try and find out what they did about it and it's Oh can't tell you, it's private which might be true in a way, but you can tell nothing happen, which tells me if they don't do anything then it might go away.
Another thing they had an anonymous web site to submit ethical complaints, which is used the same way, we can't tell you it's private. I would love for someone in Upper HR Managment to know if they even see all these complaints,
Was a fun place to work when they first arrived, not no more people walking on eggshell, wwith the same line, you're luck to be working here.. Were we? I'm so much more happy now working for people who care about me as a person, and the work I'm doing.. Try it someday Olympus.
They used to do..lot's of family things going on, great team work, lots of laughs, not no more.
Like another reviewer, too many managers, when I left there was an IT group I heard that have one Sr manager with only 4 people and one of those was a manager with 4 people so two manager for 7 people.. need more worker bees instead of managers

Advice to Senior Management

Listen to the complaints that people put forward. They are not wasting time, they are having issues. How many complaints need to be filled before action. Sure some are basic, but if people are talking time to imput at least research.

Pros

Good at first, then it all went down the toilet.
Nice area
Hopefully new uppermanagement can take the company back and "right the wrongs".

Cons

Management is completely out of touch, not in reality.
Micromanagement at its finest.
Management leads by intimidation.
Unrealistic MBO's with little or no compensation.
Afraid to stand up for thier emplyees.

Advice to Senior Management

Take a step back and listen to your employees. Most of your employees have more education that you do, and actually have good ideas.

Pros

Good pay when you start and the benefits are ok. The staff in the trenches are great and hard working

Cons

Advancement and pay increase are rare. Best way to get a pay increase is to find another job, thne they make a counter offer to keep you sometimes.

Pros

-working for a company that has a gold standard medical device that saves lives
-people I work with..
-tons of overtime
-because of its deep pockets with coporate-stability of job
-new CEO and brass at corporate level-excited to see what will happen

Cons

-upper upper managment very disconnected from day to day activities-several don't even know how to use current platform software.

-used to be a company with "atta-boy" perks--i.e turkey at thanksgiving/summer picnic/christmas lunch--all taken away or turned into "fundraiser activities" that really only benefit company taxes.

-management obsessed with dress code-sending people home for not tucking in shirts.

-difficult to get promoted...few opportunities.

-very low morale...

-unlike corporate, the repair center upper/senior managment has not changed

Advice to Senior Management

-focus on the quality..not cost or delivery.
-get more involved with what your "minions" do.