Edwards Lifesciences reviews

Where to start? - salaries are offensively miserly for the amount of work they make you do - the job itself was interesting but the lack of organisation, general abuse of power & striking incompetence made things hundred times harder and more stressful - the company culture in the Prague office is very incestuous and it is run like a members-only club or cartel - training is non-existent; a language course I wanted to do took almost 6 months to organise and when they finally got their act together, it was time for me to leave the company - Czech management and senior management is dismal - extremely high staff turnover - lots of people (and thus knowledge) leaving because problems were not being listened to by management or HR - HR department is inept and corrupt and needs to start caring more about the staff it deals with not just treat people like numbers that are expendable - career progression or opportunities are also non-existent and it's a 'who-you-know' not 'what-you-know' kind of system (nepotism v merit) - the IT system was extremely badly mismanaged and woefully inadequate for this day and age and the IT upper-management were generally clueless and over-worked (except the Network guys who are extremely good at their jobs and deserve a lot of credit for keeping the ailing IT system functional). Issues generally kept piling up but a lack of staff meant that the issues were very slow to be resolved or were not resolved at all - the office space was quite bland and not a very good place to spend time in - needs a splash of paint and personality - everything was generally very disorganised in the Prague office and management and HR are useless - the corporate waste of money in the company as a whole is staggering and the amount of money wasted on pointless corporate business trips, meetings and dinners would make even a Wall Street executive's eyes water

- Business Units are very disconnected due to size and scale of company - Processes to achieve change are not very efficient, so a simple change can take weeks or months - The company is "1 man deep" in many areas, so if a critical person is busy or on vacation, you can't get the help you need until they return - People are expected to be available 24/7 to support the company - Parking on main campus in Irvine is very busy (stack parked by valet), but that should be fixed when the planned construction of a new parking structure is completed