A lack of leadership - Anonymous employee Push Doctor Employee Review

2.0
20 Sept 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Good staff that get along well. Nice refurbisheed offices. Onsite gym.

Cons

Push Doctor has always had so much potential, but unfortunately there's a lack of responsible direction from the top leadership. There has been so many projects worked on that went nowhere, because no market research was done, so PD didn't actually know if there was an appetite for any of this but continued developing the products. One product even had staff hired specifically for it, before it was stopped because the leadership finally realised it wasnt viable. The CEO left in July under hushed circumstances, and this was followed by a badly handled redundancy process, getting rid of around 40 staff. Id like to believe in the new leadership being better, but what weve seen so far doesn't show this. Although redundancies happen, they've been vague throughout this whole process, and although they've wanted to seem as though there is a clear direction for the companys future, it doesn't seem much different from what weve been doing all along. As for the laid back 'start up' culture at Push Doctor, it's more restricted than you think. When joining, we were sold in on e.g.. flexible working. The place isn't flexible, you're not allowed to leave even 5 mins early. People work a lot of over time, but can't leave a few minutes earlier when needed. This has created an environment where staff doesn't feel trusted by the HR function and the leadership. HR has throughout the last year sent out engagement surveys, and had HR 121s with staff to ask what they can do better. We didn't see any real improvement from these, other than strange engagement office activities like "national selfie day".

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Interesting field to work in, lots to do

Cons

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2.0
4 Jan 2021
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Pros

Direct line management is great and caring. Other members of the engineering department truly care and are highly passionate about creating a good platform for the patients. Great flexibility - can work around life commitments. Push Doctor it's self is a great idea.

Cons

Tries to do too many things at once resulting in no one thing being done well. No focus from upper management on direction of business result in frequent fundamental changes in business plans. This results in a code base with lots of technical debt and dead code. No time given to address technical debt or architect solutions which create a solid base to build off of. When things do change there is little time to do them. This puts a lot of pressure on the engineering team. I can't fully speak for other departments but it feels like the engineering team takes the brunt. Staff members were allowed to work for 4 weeks straight with no weekends. This was not mandatory, but still not a healthy way to run a team. CTO caused about 50% of his staff to leave due to lack of respect for anyone's opinion but his mate from a previous company and generally treating / talking to staff like crap. The rest of the upper management let this go on for over a year before finally doing something about it when about 6 members of team handed in their notice.

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Push Doctor Response
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Thank you for leaving a review. With the opportunities we have internally to discuss feedback ( Tech Townhalls, Company meetings, fortnightly anonymous engagement survey, Monthly one to ones and exit interview, etc) it is a shame this hadn't been raised in order for us to review and discuss your concerns. Please note the overtime you are referring to was paid at a rate and was not mandatory, this was in order to release a very important part of our product, and ultimately there to react to the current pressures due to Covid19. Thank you again for the feedback - The People Team
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