Edwards Lifesciences reviews

The pandemic has really shed light on how inconsiderate and careless leadership is - I am disgusted and frustrated. In March, everyone who could work remotely was allowed to do so - the health and safety of employees seemed important to leadership at this time. ELT has also noted that employees had been productive during these times, so none of our work was compromised. However, as a few months went by, leadership came up with a reintegration plan and decided to implement in July, forcing all employees to head back to work, completely disregarding each employee's type of work and living situation. Their justification? They proudly brought up the collaborative nature of the company and how we have lost the value of in-person meetings. Why force employees to come back when we are asked to practice social distancing and limit the use of conference rooms? Based of the alternating schedules they assigned to me, half of my team won't even be on-site on the same days as I am. Therefore, all meetings will still be held via Teams, so what in-person meetings are we supposed to have? They also claimed that their decision was based on "recent advancements in science and therapies" for COVID-19. What therapies? What advancements have we made? We do not have a viable treatment for COVID-19, so where is leadership getting their news? My work simply requires an internet connection, yet I am compelled to head back to campus, putting all the elderly individuals I live with at risk. When I explained this to ELT, they allowed me to continue to work from home until August, but were adamant that I come back after - no exceptions. This left a really sour taste in my mouth. They simply do not care about their employees and their concerns. It has made me resent the company and regret coming here.

- 30+% turnover. - Management is narcissistic, abusive, has no bearing on reality, and percieves the world through metrics. - Lots of vaguely dystopian corporate cheerleading meetings to announce your impending doom at the hands of to he lastest micromanagement scheme or stroke the ego of an executive. -The six sigma program is a caricature of the inefficiencies it is meant to eliminate. 3X the industry standard class time, the gating project is too short to complete in the Kafkaesque bureaucratic maze you have to navigate, and you have to go through each belt sequentially (yellow then green then black) to complete the program. Each stage has about 85% washout rate. I think it is primarily a bludgeon to tell employees how worthless they are. - Edwards secret sauce is a tangy blend of apathy and panic. - Yes men abound and are bulletproof, while workhorses are whipped relentlessly until burned out and are discarded. - Here is an actual conversation I had with leaving for the week: "Happy Friday" "Oof, that was a long week, good to be going home." "Were you part of the audit?" "No, just dodging shade from every direction." "So another week at Edwards. . ." Yes, it was.