BioTelemetry Reviews

The environment here can feel very toxic. Regardless of the what impression is relayed to candidates during interviews, there is a very high turnover rate within the company due to weak pay/benefits, inexperienced/unprofessional management team, low advancement opportunities, and poor treatment of employees. When looking through job boards, you will see there are always openings at this company due to the company's inability to retain employees. Most of the people that make it into management are coincidentally related to the VP and seem to be the same group of people that land every promotion, nearly eliminating advancement opportunities for anyone else outside of this chosen group. As a Project Manager, you will find yourself working 60-70 hours a week to try and keep up with your workload. Part of this is due to a severe imbalance in terms of how work is assigned to Project Managers but the bulk of the time spent trying to keep up with workload is due to outdated systems that do not work - most of the work done is extremely manual and Excel based. This leads to errors, wasted time, and unreliable data. After spending your 60+ hours a week trying to keep up, you will then meet managers that pick apart the work done to compile monthly metrics that are highly unreasonable and unattainable. For the last few years, the company has been constantly 'restructuring' which had led to the same small group of employees repeatedly being promoted while all other overworked employees are either laid off or left in the same entry level positions and expected to pick up the slack. If you do make it to the interview process, be prepared for multiple interviews held by the chosen few in the company that will paint a misleading and inaccurately positive picture of this company and will only choose you to move forward if you already know someone within the company or are young, white, and willing to work endless extra hours for as little money as possible and without any complaints or push back.

Most of the cons are just part of the package, but there are some particular items relevant to the ongoing merger. * Schedule. Most departments are a normal 8-5 or a bit flexible, but we're a 24/7/365 facility, which means there are overnight shifts for technicians to keep working those ECGs, and on-call shifts for IT to support them. It's not really bad, it's just how it is. * Terminations. Layoffs and firings aren't usually particularly frequent, but when they do happen, they can be very abrupt. The company needs to protect patient information, so they don't generally risk retaliation by terminated employees; if the company is letting someone go, they will usually be walked out of the building immediately after being notified, and someone else will be cleaning out their desk or office. It's harsh, but it's understandable. That said... * Communication. Communication wasn't really ever a strong point of this company, though that did significantly change under Dr. Rietiker and his team. There were town halls, a clear vision, and honesty about when there might be layoffs. It was very refreshing. However, I can't say it's being maintained during the merger. Officially, we are now part of BioTelemetry. The communication about the details of that process has been hit or miss. There have been several rounds of layoffs, including the sudden loss of high-level managers, with no explanation or even notification from the transition team or C-suite. We've received emails about new organizational changes, but only the positives. In a situation like this, the communication about the negatives should be just as clear. It hasn't been as of yet, and it's been fairly unnerving.