Edwards Lifesciences reviews

Difficult people to work for. Employees are not a resource to be developed but a commodity to be consumed and discarded. Not a lot of seasoned employees - lots of university interns and recent graduates with minimal experience but a willingness to work long hours. Edwards sought me out and I was hoping for a long term career. I figured out within the first couple of months that this would not be the case. Friends, family and past colleagues that contact me about working for Edwards - I suggest that they look elsewhere for employment. Management believes that true motivation comes from having your job threatened. An extremely toxic work environment. 10 - 11 hrs a day is the expectation.

Highly political organization where you find your job will be pulled in all directions. They will always use the excuse that "we are saving lives" to cause you to work ultra long hours. Work life balance is not a consideration. Sink or Swim Environment. Processes are not up to par with the result that you will have to work extra hard to get the job done to expectation. Again, work life balance is not a consideration. If you don't do as told or "as expected,", you may experience coercion. Competitive and cutthroat work environment some might even call abusive. This place is very different from what it was just five years ago as I experienced. There has been high turnover and some of this turnover continues to today. They give you "one week downtime holiday" between Christmas and New Years so you are sold that you get three weeks vacation. In reality, only works out to about 2 weeks and three days vacation with no floating holidays. So, it's just like you are starting out in any other company with two weeks vacation keeping in mind other companies usually give you two floating holidays.