Polymedco Reviews

Let me first start by saying this company has been around since 1980…and they run as if they were a failing start up. The vast majority of the modern medical world simply doesn’t recognize the name “Polymedco.” The immense lack of marketing and brand recognition is detrimental and extremely problematic for a company that’s been around for 42 years. This company is run by people who do not have any formal academic background in science, or any idea of how to be an ethical leader and run a business efficiently. Everyone in management is related and nepotism in this company is alive and well. There’s a clear generational gap between “management” in New York and the sales reps hired to work in the Austin “office.” This creates an extremely unhealthy and unprofessional environment to work in because no trust is given to the young sales reps. They are treated as incompetent children who need to be watched at all hours of the day to make sure they are doing our jobs. Even months into the position, there’s no trust that we know how to do our jobs - why are you hiring someone to do a job if you plan to micromanage every single step? The main product this company sells is OC-Fit, which is sold as a “program” for hospitals to implement, so the sale cycle takes months to come to fruition. You must get all members of hospital leadership to not only come together on a zoom call and agree to the program, but you have to do so in a COVID/post COVID world where hospitals aren’t interested in spending money on anything but that right now. This lack of meetings/sales is blamed solely on the sales reps for “not trying hard enough.” As sales reps, we were told weekly, if not daily, that we weren’t doing our jobs correctly and that we had to ask for permission before sending emails, etc. This micromanagement never stopped; 6 months in we were all still being told we still weren’t doing good, and would be fired if we couldn’t make a sale (but somehow still received a 10k bonus for “hitting all our sales goals?”). They role play you to death and knit pick everything you do instead of perhaps realizing that a rebrand and altered strategy might help. Sales rep’s input is never valued, and management spends most of their days in each other’s offices either gossiping or just hanging out. However, if sales reps are ever seen not in the confinement of their cubes, they are insistently told to get back to work because “there’s a lot of chit chat” going on. Don’t even think about working from home, at this company micromanagement is key. On that same note, everything good about the role comes with a price that makes it not worthwhile anymore. Your salary as a rep starts at 60k with commission. But, you will soon come to realize that no legitimate company will pay you that with no experience. You are told you need to work longer than 8-5 even though this isn’t a start up and there’s nothing for you to do past 3pm. There is no room for growth here unless you are related to management. There is no diversity within the company. You won’t really ever see your commission. This is because it’s extremely hard to close a deal in several months time, and most of the big deals that do close are closed by management who took the deal from reps that left. This company thrives on working reps to tears, reprimanding them often and threatening to fire them because they aren’t working hard enough. And because of the age gap in management and reps, no modern work life balance options are available - this company would rather you drive to work in a winter storm (Feb 2021) then work from home. Within 6 months-1 year, (if you can even last that long) the reps leave and management get to close your deals and make the commission. Like clockwork, a new training class is then brought in to run the cycle over again. This company will put a serious toll on your mental health and self confidence. If you are lucky enough to be one of managements obvious favorites, things could be a little better for you, but you will still be verbally degraded and harassed along with the group. On a number of occasions, reps were individually verbally harassed by leaders of the company to the point of tears, and profanities were used almost exclusively by the COO, who evidently left the company after 6 months. We watched as several reps scrambled to leave for other jobs, or were let go for undefined reasons. When reps were let go, no one in upper management acknowledged their departure in any way. They were simply blindsided and asked to leave almost immediately when the company determined they were not “a team player.” Unprofessional and inappropriate do not even begin to describe this work environment. There is clearly too much more to explain in one review, hope this was helpful.