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      Vital Connect Reviews

      3.8

      74% would recommend to a friend

      (47 total reviews)
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      Peter Van Haur

      84% approve of CEO

      74% positive business outlook

      Ratings by demographic groups

      Vital Connect has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 47 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Vital Connect employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry (3.5 stars).

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      47 reviews
      1.0
      14 Nov 2016

      Not worth it

      Senior manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      Great product, potential improvement to patient care in hospital and in home

      Cons

      CEO makes poor decisions based on impulse and emotions, and cannot be trusted. CEO has fallouts with many top folks, and eventually those folks and all opposition are fired. Senior management flip-flops constantly, and doesn't want to listen to reason or reality. The price paid is by employees who year after year are not allowed to take winter holidays, asked to work long hours, and then get laid off. They will respond to this that such is the risk associated with startups. But at least most other startups seem to value their employees and don't treat them like crap. This company is not worth your time, not to mention there is effectively no growth opportunities for most people.

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      Vital Connect Response
      9y
      Vital Connect would like to address the concerns in your posting: Dr. Nersi Nazari, CEO and Chairman of the Board is highly respected in his field, and our company employs numerous team members who have worked with and have been led by Dr. Nazari at multiple companies over decades. The company focus is to disrupt an existing healthcare paradigm. Our corporate vision has remained unchanged in the 6 years since its’ founding while our products and solutions have been enhanced based on market feedback. Vital Connect respects, appreciates, and values its employees. Vital Connect believes in employee health! Our generous benefit package includes 100% fully paid medical, dental and vision benefits to both employees and their dependents. That is significantly above the market average in any industry in Silicon Valley and something Vital Connect feels strongly about. Additionally, Vital Connect provides a free breakfast and lunch daily in addition to the basic break room snacks and drinks. At Vital Connect 40 % of our current workforce has been promoted since joining the company (three of these are sitting Vice Presidents.) This group started in a more junior position and after successfully achieving deliverables they received a well-deserved promotion. So, to state that Vital Connect does not provide growth opportunities would be incorrect. Vital Connect has a fully paid year-end shut down. In 2015, and only in 2015, we had a premier customer deliverable that required a small portion of our tech staff to work additional hours. However, only a small percentage of the staff worked over the holiday shut down AND it would be prudent to state that Vital Connect incentivized and highly compensated this team for their working on the customer deliverables. So, to state that Vital Connect will not let employees take winter holidays would be incorrect. Similar to many companies in the high-tech industry, Vital Connect was forced to perform a reduction in force March of 2016. This decision has allowed Vital Connect to continue along our path to meeting our business goals for 2016 and beyond. So, to state that we continuously fire employees would be incorrect. Vital Connect recently brought on new visionaries in leadership roles to assist with moving our company in the right direction. Clearly employee’s feel that the company is moving in the right direction. Again, thank you for your feedback. It is unfortunate that you chose not to remain at Vital Connect.
      4.0
      24 Mar 2016

      Employment cannot be counted on!!

      Staff firmware engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      Good people to work with

      Cons

      All was well until they laid off half of development engineering last week, and apparently many other departments as well. No warning, walked in on Tuesday morning to implement a software feature for another engineer, and got walked right back out again. At this point, I would be hesitant to count on a job here; and it's not obvious how they plan on managing engineering from here on out.

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      Vital Connect Response
      10y
      Anyone who has worked at a prior start-up knows of the inherent risks associated with this type of company. With those risks come a potential payback if the company does well. Securing funding for a new technology (biosensor) in an industry that is slow to change has been difficult for our executive funding team. However, they were very successful recently and were able to secure our future with funding. Yes, management had to make tough decisions on which projects to move forward and which employees needed to be let go (25%). In business sometimes tough decisions are necessary. We still have a phenomenal product that will change the industry, we still have a great staff (albeit a smaller staff), and we will still succeed!
      1.0
      24 May 2016

      Don't believe what the CEO tells you about their finances and ask it in writing

      Engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      Good people to work with. Most of them (including myself) would leave in a heartbeat if they get another employment opportunity.

      Cons

      - When I joined 10 months ago, my main concern was how much money they have left. I specifically met with the CEO to ask him about the company finances and he looked me in the eye and confidently told me that they have no issue whatsoever in raising money. Six months after I joined they laid off half their work force (from 80 down to 40 employees) because they could not get any funding! I hate to say this but unfortunately the CEO LIES through the teeth so be careful and ask for their finances in writing. - Their main potential customer deserted their product because it had so many issues. - On average the engineers were "advised" by management to work longer hours (about 10 hours/day) and to come for 4-6 hours on one of the weekend days in order to "meet product deadlines". P.S. Don't believe one brown noser reviewer below who painted a rosy picture of the company. He is probably one of the management team.

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      Vital Connect Response
      10y
      Anyone who has worked at a prior start-up knows of the inherent risks associated with this type of company. With those risks come a potential payback if the company does well. Securing funding for a new technology (biosensor) in an industry that is slow to change has been difficult for our executive funding team. However, they were very successful recently and were able to secure our future with funding. Yes, management had to make tough decisions on which projects to move forward and which employees needed to be let go (25%). In business sometimes tough decisions are necessary. We still have a phenomenal product that will change the industry, we still have a great staff (albeit a smaller staff), and we will still succeed!
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