Employment cannot be counted on!! - Staff Firmware Engineer Vital Connect Employee Review

4.0
24 Mar 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good people to work with

Cons

All was well until they laid off half of development engineering last week, and apparently many other departments as well. No warning, walked in on Tuesday morning to implement a software feature for another engineer, and got walked right back out again. At this point, I would be hesitant to count on a job here; and it's not obvious how they plan on managing engineering from here on out.

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Vital Connect Response
10y
Anyone who has worked at a prior start-up knows of the inherent risks associated with this type of company. With those risks come a potential payback if the company does well. Securing funding for a new technology (biosensor) in an industry that is slow to change has been difficult for our executive funding team. However, they were very successful recently and were able to secure our future with funding. Yes, management had to make tough decisions on which projects to move forward and which employees needed to be let go (25%). In business sometimes tough decisions are necessary. We still have a phenomenal product that will change the industry, we still have a great staff (albeit a smaller staff), and we will still succeed!

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