Advanced Brain Monitoring Reviews

Pros

I can’t think of any pro’s

Cons

Well, the company picks their favorites and when you’re their favorite they will bend over backwards for you until they decide to not care for you anymore and then move onto the next person. I will say they do some shady business there, there were many instances when employment was illegally threaten. They love to “lay off” people but really they’re just firing them because they don’t care for them. At most events you can hear the upper management/owners talk ill of previous employees. Not much pay for the amount of work given. Employees are yelled at in a small office that can be heard throughout at least half the office. If you hate yourself and want to be kicked when you’re down, this is the place for you.

Pros

Flex schedule is the only good thing in the company pay is good if you fresh out of high school

Cons

Discriminatory unprofessional behavior from top management really stressful environment micromanaging to the max your work won’t be appreciated they won’t back you up and let bully an harassment go unnoticed as long as it benefits the company there is one employee who drink at work all the time if you are minority beware they will make you feel outcasted you will hear some racial slurs here an there but everyone thinks is fine cause they make it seem like a joke HR won’t help is non existent in that company plus you will be crucified if you try to approach management or hr about your problem overall is a very toxic environment with unprofessional people not all but some

Pros

Flexible schedule. Benefits from day one. Lots experience in different areas of the company you will be exposed too. Lots of individual work for those who are not social butterflies.

Cons

HR is non-existent. No communication between departments whatsoever. Expected to pick-up others people slack without compensation or even so much as a thank you. Don't expect a raise or review after your 90 day, 6months , 12 months, Maybe 24 months. Overall stressful environment.

Pros

I got to earn way more than my basic salary becuase of overtime work which was mandatory. We didn't have any other choice but to work longer hours.

Cons

This place was being run by a rude, micromanaging and mentally and emotionally unstable CEO who would get mad for small mistakes, would shout and nat at employees. Whenever the CEO was around, all of us were on the edge of our seats because we're not sure hot to move freely anymore.

Pros

If your sole aim is to learn how the industry works or how a company functions, you can easily get it here

Cons

The company's management was too set in its ways. They were rigid and unbending about making good changes like shifting employees from an overstaffed department to an understaffed department.

Pros

The skills that I gained as a research associate added value to my work history.

Cons

Pay is terrible compared to to other organizations. There is no room for growth. Upper management is no leader either, they outsourced work and company employees have lost benefits. There is no loyalty to this company. Employees with any skills or experience leave within a year. I would not make a career here if I ware you.

Pros

Tight knit company with good leadership, great benefits, and at the forefront of technology and research.

Cons

Understaffed in some areas and not willing to transfer human resources as needed to some areas.

Pros

Work/Life Balance: no on-calls required, some flexibility to work from home.

Cons

My two biggest concerns were: Offensively low salary and minimal benefits to write home about: the employees are underpaid as most of the technical roles are done offshore or contracted, and new hires are typically fresh out of undergrad with little work experience. They market their open positions as an opportunity to "wear many hats", which in essence implies that they are too stingy to invest in providing the right infrastructure to hire competent, experienced staff. No formal work training was provided, and there's no roadmap given by upper management to set-up their employees for success. Zero investment in work environment and culture: requests for better equipment and productivity tools kept on being pushed away, so expect to be on your own to get the job done. A terrible office environment that's stuck in the 90s, a lack of a proper HR office admin to listen to employee concerns, and a non-structured annual review leads to most of the former employees staying just long enough to fill in their resume with experience, and venture off to greener pastures.

Pros

Lots of different things to do and learn. But be cautioned you learn a way to do things that is unlikely to transfer unless you are on the research team (and maybe accounting?). Everything else is made up as they go and they do not follow any industry standards for anything. The engineering systems are very flawed.

Cons

Where to start? First, you should be aware that the entire research team, and even some of their replacements have left over the past 18 months. They were all honest about the leadership failures, tried to be constructive in helping right the ship, but were told "if you don't like it, leave"...so they and some of the rest of us did. Second, at least 2 of these positive reviews were written by the marketing people, and they are dishonest- but they were having such problems recruiting, they added these to try to improve the image. The issues are myriad but here are a few: 1) the leadership is completely over-matched for the scale the company had grown to. The CEO had hired multiple Directors that had no idea what they were doing, and maybe 2 of them actually tried to learn and become competent. The other 2-3 just floated along- two engineering types simply did not work for years at a time, but they still got paid large salaries. They hired some other guy to write grants, and then when he failed at that they hired him FT anyway at a large salary? They all still work there last I heard. 2) While not dealing with high level salaried employees not completing anything on time, or at a quality that was not embarrassing, they will continually claim there is no money to pay people at mid to lower levels across teams, and if your manager does not fight tooth and nail, you won't get paid much- and I heard that the one manager that did fight for her team (the research group) left. So not sure anyone in management gives a crap about anyone or anything but themselves now. 3) The products could be awesome. But the CEO will not reign in the marketing group saying things like "fMIR is not real science, like EEG", or selling "metrics" that are fine for research tools, but are not solid enough to be profiting from- the workload algorithm was built on on a sample of 13 pp- even I know that is weak. But the CEO will melt down if you say it was only 13- she is convinced it is over 80...but read the paper- not just the abstract- it was 13. Meanwhile the technology and software apparently all worked at one point- but while I was there there, there were constant problems with gadget they used to synch things- to the point that the data files were corrupted beyond rescue in several cases (and when customers complained, the comments around the office were they were just nitpicky, and no one really used the technology that way...well except for those customers I guess?). The software for the EEG had also become a mess- they had an engineer trying to clean it up, but the lead software engineer denied anything was wrong, the marketing people again claimed no one cared, but some basic calculations were apparently corrupted- that did not seem ok to me) 4) my last straw was hearing that the CEO was now considered a liar by some pretty important people in the funding agencies- I did not want to end up stuck here or end up with a poor reputation by association, so I left...and apparently a lot of others left too.

Pros

Still a "startup" so you get opportunities that you wouldn't get at a larger company. You get two computer screens.

Cons

Pretty much everything else - you are underpaid, management is incompetent, over promises and under delivers products