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      Medisas Reviews

      2.3

      36% would recommend to a friend

      (9 total reviews)
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      Gautam Sivakumar

      Not enough data to show CEO approval

      23% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      2.5

      Culture and values

      2.5

      Compensation and benefits

      2.4

      Senior management

      2.3

      Career opportunities

      1.9

      Work/Life balance

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      9 reviews
      1.0
      19 June 2018

      CEO is Unethical, with low intellect and zero self awareness

      Anonymous employee
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      Pros

      The Engineering team thankfully was more insulated from the CEO's direct involvement (I would have quit sooner if that were not the case). The mission on paper seems good.

      Cons

      The CEO is the biggest con and he also happens to be a dishonest conman! Why I call him unethical - NOBODY beyond the first few got any equity even though we worked beyond the cliff period. In typical startup fashion, employees continue to work assuming this will be taken care of. If you ask the CEO about why no documents have been filed for equity post cliff period (even though you have equity mentioned in offer letter), the CEO mentions a vague response about checking with lawyers. REALLY? It is taking you 1+ year for every employee to get equity vesting documents? Typically newer employees have churned before 4 years thanks to his overall bad leadership (see below) and at that point we just let it go and put more focus on the next job. In the end, the CEO wins because he got work for sub-par salary under the promise of equity that he never had to deliver. Why I call him low intellect with zero self awareness - He will keep saying “this is our company”, and I think that is from a training module either from Y-Combinator or SV Angels for founders - originally mentioned there with best intentions. Do not be fooled, it is HIS company and on the inside he will act that way. Every decision (design/color specs, code reviews, sales scripts, product, marketing campaigns) - everything will be micromanaged and needs to be approved by him and you will have no independence. The stuff he says is sometimes ludicrous but nobody dare oppose him of course. Some of us employees would vent it out among ourselves but we dare not say anything to him. So, he either thinks he is an expert in everything or he thinks others’ opinions do not matter. I have come home depressed and border line teared up on many days thanks to the CEO. You know a company is doomed once a CEO thinks he/she is smarter and better than everyone else. He is in no way smarter than the average person and to make it worse he is also very unethical. Even if you are at the caliber of Steve Jobs, the moment you are dishonest - nothing matters anymore. To make it worse he also has no self awareness. Someone needs to tell him that. DO NOT BE FOOLED BY POSITIVE REVIEWS. Those are typed in by vested employees who have a sunk cost of having been there long enough. Want some proof? - Search Linkedin for past employees of this company and you can see how many people have been through this meat grinder in such a short time. That by itself should be a red flag for any aspiring applicant.

      1.0
      3 Sept 2018

      DON'T TEST YOUR LUCK.

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
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      Pros

      Brilliant, passionate and driven people, aside from "Senior Leadership". However, ALL those people are long gone. On the bright-side, if you survive long at this place, anywhere else you go is an absolute cake-walk. That's because no where else treats their employees with such toxicity. The resulting casualties don't burden leadership, so if you want to work at a company that hides behind the pretense of compassionate words, this is the place to be!

      Cons

      **Readers beware. All the positive reviews are written by current employees who have too much at stake with the company. They're also too low in EQ to understand that the mistreatment they've partaken-in and witnessed is completely unethical.** "Senior Leadership" is composed of individuals who have NEVER managed people until being promoted at this company. Consequently, leadership will go to great lengths to convince you that they are "good people", "the good guys" or "on your side". But actions speak louder than words. If you pay attention to the actions that follow, it will be clear where their true intentions stand. Consequently, mistreatment in the form of discreet verbal and emotional abuse is so regular that you almost forget that a working environment should NOT feel miserable. If you want to know what the culture was like - it was misery with a masquerade of fake smiles and empty words. Furthermore, the entire company is micromanaged by one individual. Ask yourself, how can one person be the head of EVERY department of the company (i.e. - Design, Product, Sales, Marketing, Hiring, Leadership)? This is the result of a complete lack of trust towards employees. Decisions are not approved unless he's used his magic fingers to check-mark everything. When things do go well, expect to be disregarded for your contributions - he'll take ownership for all the wins.

      1.0
      10 Oct 2018

      Regretted my time here

      Anonymous employee
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      Pros

      Medisas has a very compelling vision, and a great mission you can get behind. You can easily see yourself trying to make hospitals better. The individuals that I worked with were fantastic. Medisas did an exceptional job hiring compassionate, intelligent, disciplined and charitable people. It was not difficult to build friendships and work with colleagues. It also provide an opportunity, for those not acquainted with hospitals, to see how care is delivered. Employees were encouraged to visit client sites to gain a better understanding of how healthcare professionals work.

      Cons

      My disappointment in Medisas stemmed from being unable to dial in on the right thing to work on to move the needle. It was difficult to say whether your efforts had impact on the business or users. The company and team seemed to struggle with knowing whether an initiative was a success or failure. This made me feel undirected, unmotivated and undetermined. I expect that all start ups run into this issue, but I was hoping that our team would be able to improve over time. In my experience, we did not. I think that this is what lead people to feel like they did not have autonomy. It was hard to have employees be autonomous when there were only ambiguous missions, and no clear objectives. E.g. “do what it takes to improve care”, vs “decrease time from lab completion to user reviewing the results.”

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