Smiths Medical Reviews

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The only downside I see is when the company decided to go global some positions were eliminated and all that knowledge went out the door with them.
I feel that we should have people doing the job also do the training.

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Not a place for people that want their manager to tell them what to do. Have to take initiative and seek out mentors on your own. You will have to work extra hard to do the right thing. Not sure if that is how all companies are or all of life for that matter.

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Management sucks, its very very very hard to find help and get your supervisor to help you. Be prepared to do a lot of task not in your job duties. Theres a ton of people who have been here 20+ years and they arent friendly at all they will actually make you feel extremely out of place. Back order issues are an every day thing and the system we work out of is from the 1800s it seems like.

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Sometimes more concerned about cutting costs than investing.

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Inept leaders, starting with the top, old products, late on all product launches......all of them...selfish leaders that only care about bonus and never about customers. Horrific backorders and leadership could care less. Quality problems that go unresolved with no response to customers, and again, leadership could care less. No investment, only cost cutting. Tons of open sales territories. Too many layers of sales management

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No direction aggressive Snr leaders

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Systemically toxic work environment. Lack of support from upper management downward. Seniority reigns supreme in that the longer you’ve been there even if you’ve really screwed up and lack quality knowledge, you’re rewarded. Great workers who care get burnt out carrying the workload of slacker coworkers. Yearly raises for worker bees are pitiful except for upper management bonuses.

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Leadership does not work as a team at all. Dysfunctional. No problems get solved ever. Backorders, quality holds, late product releases, sales execution misses, missed scope in new products, bean counting and on and on. Morale is tanking. The ICU deal was a life boat, but guess that’s not going to happen.

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The company culture is toxic. At first I thought it was just my supervisor/manager, but I quickly realized it was a company problem. My supervisor would routinely berate and harass me, and despite escalating the issue, no one cared.

The company as a whole is a mess. They’re very reactive, and not proactive. If you’re any good at your job you’re going to spend long hours trying to clean up messes. My typical work week was 60+ hours.

They claim to always seek to promote and hire from within, but instead they hire unqualified external candidates for much higher pay than internal candidates.

Benefits are severely lacking. Not flexible on work from home.

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Backorders, recalls, limited number of product managers who are overwhelmed and thus, ineffective. New products are "me too's' in the industry that customers are just not interested in buying. Sales managers are either inept or inexperienced or bullies. Turnover is rampant at all levels