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Can someone please provide any advice. Can you tell me how it is to work for the company seriously. I am looking to break into the medical device industry and think this will be a great starter job.

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Anonymous said:
Can someone please provide any advice. Can you tell me how it is to work for the company seriously. I am looking to break into the medical device industry and think this will be a great starter job.

Thank you
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Endosurgery is hiring and it is a way better division. Check out Conmed.com for openings. Great way to start Med Device career.
 






Do not take a position with Electrosurgery. They will tell you that it is a great way to break in. Do yourself a favor and find another way to get into medical sales.
 






These posts are completly incorrect. If you want a cushy job, left alone, and happy making 90K a year then endo is a good place for you. As a former ConMed ES employee I have moved on to a major medical device company. Many former ES people are with J&&, Covidien, Intuitive, Boston Scientific, Metronic etc... ES is a good place for you to cut your teeth in medical device sales. I was there for two years and moved on. The problem with CP is you don't get good honest feedback. Look some reps up on linked in and call them and ask them what they think.
 






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These posts are completly incorrect. If you want a cushy job, left alone, and happy making 90K a year then endo is a good place for you. As a former ConMed ES employee I have moved on to a major medical device company. Many former ES people are with J&&, Covidien, Intuitive, Boston Scientific, Metronic etc... ES is a good place for you to cut your teeth in medical device sales. I was there for two years and moved on. The problem with CP is you don't get good honest feedback. Look some reps up on linked in and call them and ask them what they think.
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Thank you for the good feedback. As I look at this job, can you give me some more honest feedback? Is the ES division like a minor league division for Conmed? Why does everyone leave? Someone told me that the entire sales force of 50 plus people has turned over in the past 2 years. Are the people going to other major league divisions at Conmed? Is there something wrong with ES? Why would everyone leave after only 2 years? It has to be expensive for the ES division to be training people for other divisions and companies. It seems like they have have a good product, why is everyone leaving after only 2 years? I don't want to come on board and then have to leave after only 18 months or two years. It takes you a year to learn the business and get established. People start to think your a job hopper. I want a future not two years and gone.
 






Anonymous said:
These posts are completly incorrect. If you want a cushy job, left alone, and happy making 90K a year then endo is a good place for you. As a former ConMed ES employee I have moved on to a major medical device company. Many former ES people are with J&&, Covidien, Intuitive, Boston Scientific, Metronic etc... ES is a good place for you to cut your teeth in medical device sales. I was there for two years and moved on. The problem with CP is you don't get good honest feedback. Look some reps up on linked in and call them and ask them what they think.
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Thank you for the honest advice. I actually just looked on linked in and emailed a representative in my area hopefully they will respond back. Is there any advice you can give for interviewing with Conmed?

Thanks in advance
 






ES actually has really good products, and their reps used to make more money than any other division; futhermore they are the only ConMed division that doesn't sell off of price. The problem is the management. They do many different things that cut off their nose to spite their face. Believe me if you go to ConMed ES you will regret it, the last thing you need is someone forcing you to be a one legged man in an ass kicking contest.

I like what the previous poster said about emailing people from linked in, and can only think of one thing to improve on that, which is if you want to get a fair reply, email someone who has left ConMed ES. Typically, reps will speak highly about old jobs if the company was fair, and if the company sucked, they will be positive but non-specific because they feel bad about steering you away.

If you join ConMed ES, in the end what will happen is you will not be able to compete with the big players, then when you try and leave you will have to explain why you were under quota all your years at ConMed to the managers you are interviewing with. Statistically, very few reps make quota. You want to go to a company that is managed well enough so that 60%+ of reps hit quota. I say you interview, and if you are offered the job turn it down, and use it as an example for other interviews. This will give you an infectious confidence that other employers will gravitate to, and show others that you are of high quality because you are not willing to take just any med device job.
 












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ES actually has really good products, and their reps used to make more money than any other division; futhermore they are the only ConMed division that doesn't sell off of price. The problem is the management. They do many different things that cut off their nose to spite their face. Believe me if you go to ConMed ES you will regret it, the last thing you need is someone forcing you to be a one legged man in an ass kicking contest.

I like what the previous poster said about emailing people from linked in, and can only think of one thing to improve on that, which is if you want to get a fair reply, email someone who has left ConMed ES. Typically, reps will speak highly about old jobs if the company was fair, and if the company sucked, they will be positive but non-specific because they feel bad about steering you away.

If you join ConMed ES, in the end what will happen is you will not be able to compete with the big players, then when you try and leave you will have to explain why you were under quota all your years at ConMed to the managers you are interviewing with. Statistically, very few reps make quota. You want to go to a company that is managed well enough so that 60%+ of reps hit quota. I say you interview, and if you are offered the job turn it down, and use it as an example for other interviews. This will give you an infectious confidence that other employers will gravitate to, and show others that you are of high quality because you are not willing to take just any med device job.
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You think you know all the answers? Who made you the expert? Your just another loser who failed in their job with this division. Though I will agree that their management team is a bunch of Assholes you are just as pathetic as them.
 


















Anonymous said:
Thank you for the good feedback. As I look at this job, can you give me some more honest feedback? Is the ES division like a minor league division for Conmed? Why does everyone leave? Someone told me that the entire sales force of 50 plus people has turned over in the past 2 years. Are the people going to other major league divisions at Conmed? Is there something wrong with ES? Why would everyone leave after only 2 years? It has to be expensive for the ES division to be training people for other divisions and companies. It seems like they have have a good product, why is everyone leaving after only 2 years? I don't want to come on board and then have to leave after only 18 months or two years. It takes you a year to learn the business and get established. People start to think your a job hopper. I want a future not two years and gone.
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The reason people leave is because of compensation. ES is willing to give you shot at getting OR experience, the trade-off being that your compensation will not be anywhere near what other reps are making. Most reps in other OR gigs will make $100-125K. You'll make $80-90K, on average. If you want one of the higher-paying jobs w/o any experience at all, good luck. It happens, but rarely.

What you need to ask yourself is "Is it worth it?". You'll get kicked around, take some lumps, be out-numbered by the competition and question lots of decisions by management.
However, you'll also be getting tons of OR experience and making connections with surgeons and staff.

If you're looking to break into medical device and can live on $80-90K/year for a few years, then do it. This is your way in.

As for being seen as a job hopper, don't worry about that. Recruiters and hiring managers know what the landscape in the market is like, believe me. Also, changing jobs every 3-4 years in medical device is the norm, not the exception.
 






ES Division Sucks! Their Management team has driven it down the toliet. They have the highest turnover than all the other divisions combined every year. What does that tell you? If you meet either DM or SM in person and talk with them for 5 minutes you will see why this division is in the shitter! Both wouldn't last a second with any Blue Chip Medical Device company.
 






Just understand that if you go with this company you will not be trained ..... and unless you work your butt off and are very lucky selling over priced, poor quality, old technology products you won't get a tier 1 job in medical..... In this economy.....if you don't need to take this crap job.....then run...run fast from this family run, inbred disaster!
 


















The ES division of Conmed has not grown its revenues since 2006. That's because it competes in a replacement market that has not really grown in 15 years. Pads, pencils and cut/coag/standard bipolar generators that are sold on contract. The market has evolved since the mid-90's into a specialty market with free capital and a healthy (high margin) disposable stream....which the ES division does not have. Oh sure, here comes Altrus 14 years late...but it will not be a game-changer. Valleylab/Covidien will continue to own this space for quite some years to come.
 






Anonymous said:
The ES division of Conmed has not grown its revenues since 2006. That's because it competes in a replacement market that has not really grown in 15 years. Pads, pencils and cut/coag/standard bipolar generators that are sold on contract. The market has evolved since the mid-90's into a specialty market with free capital and a healthy (high margin) disposable stream....which the ES division does not have. Oh sure, here comes Altrus 14 years late...but it will not be a game-changer. Valleylab/Covidien will continue to own this space for quite some years to come.
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Yes you are correct. Let me add that the current management team of DM and SM are two IMBECILES that have taken this division down the toliet. How they get away with things boggles the mind. When will these two stooges be held accountable??? When???
 






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