Considering a Career with BIOTRONIK

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anonymous said:
Houston is a great place to live first of all!
Houston is going through a restructuring. The area has been short staffed for many moons. As someone wrote the non-compete people can't work for 1 year and that makes life tough for the folks that can work. If you don't mind not taking vaca or working when you are sick and being on call 24/7 with no extra compensation, or if you have a dental or doctor appt you may cancel 3 or 10 times before you actually get to that appt. Then it is a perfect job for you !
The advantages are: when everyone is able to work it will be
great. It may take a year or so before this happens. When you go home you do feel good because you helped a patient with their quality of life. Patients are so grateful and grow an attachment to their "device checker". Lol. The cases can be challenging depending on the Doc you are working with. You need a strong back to carry in all the equipment and bags for a case. If you have a nice vehicle it will be trash in a year. Plan on 25k-30k miles a year. The compensation pkg does not cover the wear and tear on your vehicle. Houston is a huge area.
But this field is rapidly changing. As technology improves the field will shrink. The good news is Bio is so far behind the other companies you will get some good experience to continue in the medical field. I hope this helps with your decision. I really tried to lay out some of the pros and cons.
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I hope you didn't take that position. It looks like BIO just let go of 3 people in Houston that were able to cover cases and make things managable there. Looks to me there isn't many people left to cover clinics and even fewer that can cover cases in many of the hospitals. And with over half of the team still on their non competes it will be a rough go for quite some time. The sharks smell blood and we will start feeding on BIO doctors. The couple they have that are willing to still implant with them. BIO makes it so easy sometimes. Crap technology, big devices, and NO COVERAGE!!!
 












Anonymous said:
I hope you didn't take that position. It looks like BIO just let go of 3 people in Houston that were able to cover cases and make things managable there. Looks to me there isn't many people left to cover clinics and even fewer that can cover cases in many of the hospitals. And with over half of the team still on their non competes it will be a rough go for quite some time. The sharks smell blood and we will start feeding on BIO doctors. The couple they have that are willing to still implant with them. BIO makes it so easy sometimes. Crap technology, big devices, and NO COVERAGE!!!
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anonymous said:
Houston is a great place to live first of all!
Houston is going through a restructuring. The area has been short staffed for many moons. As someone wrote the non-compete people can't work for 1 year and that makes life tough for the folks that can work. If you don't mind not taking vaca or working when you are sick and being on call 24/7 with no extra compensation, or if you have a dental or doctor appt you may cancel 3 or 10 times before you actually get to that appt. Then it is a perfect job for you !
The advantages are: when everyone is able to work it will be
great. It may take a year or so before this happens. When you go home you do feel good because you helped a patient with their quality of life. Patients are so grateful and grow an attachment to their "device checker". Lol. The cases can be challenging depending on the Doc you are working with. You need a strong back to carry in all the equipment and bags for a case. If you have a nice vehicle it will be trash in a year. Plan on 25k-30k miles a year. The compensation pkg does not cover the wear and tear on your vehicle. Houston is a huge area.
But this field is rapidly changing. As technology improves the field will shrink. The good news is Bio is so far behind the other companies you will get some good experience to continue in the medical field. I hope this helps with your decision. I really tried to lay out some of the pros and cons.
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I have known several good reps in Houston and having to chase Sohail and others there for a piece of their business. None of them are with Bio anymore. I have to say that Houston is a circus! The place is crazy and being on call can be very demanding. Bio used to own Conroe and worked their way down with Mike Rudy and his crew. That brand has done enough business in H town that its possible to get it going again, since the internal meltdown Bio had there. I say go for it as you will learn to hate your life but may make a dollar or two. I dont understand why Bio gets H town running better then blows it all up in the name of getting better? Its Bio, not MDT so they kind of are their worst enemy quite often when they destroy in the name of desired sales growth just to be disappointed for several years after as the company pisses implanters off with their antics. The product is good but its forgetting the companies treatment of their customers that does not make sense. How much sense does it make to take away 3 people today when 2 cant fill in for over a year? The answer is it doesnt and the company just lets it happen like its normal.
 






























Houston is a zoo. I worked with them there years ago and the only doc's they worked with were bought with studies or hacks. Huge spoon feed service burden from Bay Town to College Station. If there is a new group there as the other posters mentioned you'll be doing all the implants and clinics because of the non competes of the new hires. Herman Memorial beat them out of about 80.000 dollars because a "T" wasn't crossed so the hospitals are all crooks to and if your not on contract you're done. Good thing Bob M is gone as a manager because he was a crook and a dick. Chris lasted about 2 years but didn't know anything about the business. Who is managing that mess now?

Since Woody came over from STJ to run things I guess all the Stj guys are being recruited. It's just a big cluster fuck down there.

Everyone there has been bought by someone. Watch your back and the rag-head EP's
 












Anonymous said:
"Many, many, many..."?

Have you ever worked for Biotronik? We have don't have "many,many, many" anything. So, although what you are describing may be true at the Big 3, I have not seen what you are describing taking place here at BIO.

BIO cannot afford to train someone only to let them go. The Bigs used to be able to, but now there's really no need to train someone since their layoffs have created a pool of ready talent waiting to fill in.
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Well you certainly are getting both sides of the coin here. I do believe it really depends on your territory and who your RSD will be. Biotronik has some of the best products out there, however with that said if you can avoid this company with a possible position with one of the others then do not hesitate. Biotronik is a privately held company and does not reward loyalty and hard work. If for whatever reason, and by that I mean the managers in your area are complete idiots, you lose out on contracts, they will not hesitate to cut you.
 






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