Train Wreck - Anonymous employee Medela Employee Review

1.0
18 Jul 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great products with a great purpose.

Cons

All-around awful. They fire/layoff people while on disability/FMLA and then try to appeal their unemployment benefits (unsuccessfully of course). No true flex-time. No work-life balance for mothers. Antiquated systems. Incompetent Supervisors, many lazy workers, very poor morale. They layoff people in mass #s. Upper management are at odds with each other. Inside Sales Manager is emotionally unustable. Many highs & lows- she randomly burst out crying in a meeting, then flipped a 180 and became over-the-top energetic... then left work immediately after the meeting. Talks condescending to the team like they are children. She is really just not all there. Unattainable sales budgets for many resulting in no commissions and even negative commissions. Poor strategies/poor execution. HR Dept is extremely unprofessional! Known to let people go through voicemail! Very inconsistent with employment policies.

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Medela Response
7y
We appreciate you taking the time to share your experiences with us We have passed your feedback on to the appropriate department and are actively seeking improvements if there are opportunities for change. We wish you the best in the future. - Medela Team

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