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Through advancing research, observing natural behavior, and listening to our customers, Medela turns science into care while nurturing?health for generations. Medela supports millions of moms, babies, patients, and healthcare professionals in more than 100 countries all over the world. As the healthcare choice for more than 6 million hospitals and homes across the globe, Medela provides the leading research-based breast milk feeding and baby products, healthcare solutions for hospitals, and clinical education. A family-owned company, Medela has 20 subsidiaries in Europe, the Americas, Asia and Australia, three production and warehouse facilities in Switzerland, the U.S and China and a worldwide distribution network in over 100 countries. With over 1,500 employees, Medela is dedicated to building better health outcomes, simplifying and improving life, and developing breakthroughs that help moms, babies and patients live their life to the fullest. read more
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Medela Engineering Department Employee Reviews

What do you like best about the leadership team?

Leadership Reviews

Commitment to employees (and their wellbeing) as the backbone of the organization.

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Everyone seems very positive and work well together

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Optimizing my performance, motivating me to results

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They want to hear from the employees on how to improve and actually act on improvements

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Freedom to operate the daily business

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What does the leadership team need to get better at?

Leadership Reviews

Define a strategy Have a stable structure matching the defined strategy Grow talents

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- The CTO should make a step to "brigde the disconnect" between him and his engineers -> he made some initial steps in fall 2021, but then once again, lost focus. Of course, the engineering teams will also need to make a step towards the CTO, but the current situation is filled with mutual mistrust

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Employees are told consistently that leadership will work to improve overall day-to-day. That has yet to happen and support has been worse.

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What is the best part about your compensation package?

Compensation Reviews

The generous pay and holidays

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Bonus incentives and retirement-based benefits

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pension, bonus program, time off policy

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Bonus System and how to achieve the goals is set up quite fairly

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Vacation time and an 8 hour day is wonderful

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Why do you feel undervalued and what would make you feel better about your compensation?

Compensation Reviews

The current workload is causing employees to burnout and we continue to pile on more and more. When recruiting new employees, the starting salaries are more than what is offered for experienced workers at Medela. Makes me consider looking elsewhere.

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Regarding my job responability and compared to the market I'm underpayed. But I like my job and thats more valuable

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Subsidy of train abonnements, 2nd pillar more weighted on company side.

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no opportunities for career advancement

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In Jan 2021, my reporting structure changed to a global role. As a result, I lost responsibility locally which reduced my salary by $26K and yet, I work more hours now than I ever have in all of my 10 years at Medela.

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What are some of the best things about your team?

Team Reviews

Variety of personalities making communications engaging

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Everyone contributes for the goal at hand

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Their expertise, camaraderie and friendliness

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Our team works well together, and we've built a culture around success

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We really support each other and have full trust in each other to complete our jobs/tasks.

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What do your coworkers need to improve and how could you work together better?

Team Reviews

Too many junior people to be coached Topic and answers to be repeated every couple of months Lack of transparency

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They level of performance/capability is below average

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take more responsibility during projects execution and improve sharing information between departments

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What is most positive about the culture and environment at your company?

Environment Reviews

We all work together for the health and well-being of our medical device users

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We all have a common goal of supporting our customers as best as we can. It's fulfilling to know that the products we develop / mfg have a direct impact on our customers lives.

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Very intercultural and global company

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Friendly environment and rather open/multicultural

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We are a pretty close team.

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What needs to change to make the company culture better?

Environment Reviews

Better decision making processes /accountability.

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What did you like most about the interview process?

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What makes you most happy at work?

Outlook Reviews

Completing or closing out tasks

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My productivity means I'm getting results

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When teams come together to accomplish goals.

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That we have products that helps customer getting better and helps growing in a healthy way

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Helping others and solving problems

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What's going wrong and how can it be improved?

Outlook Reviews

- reduce bureacracy - reduce processes - reduce # of meetings - get out of fat cat mode - become an agile and hungry company that wants to get things done (get out of the endless discussion mode and the neverending scope creep mode) - repair the bridge of trust between engineering + CTO

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Lack of support, low pay, no opportunity to advance, this is another year of no merit increases, no new hiring to our department, and no bonus.

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