Salient Surgical Technologies

[Anonymous]

Why so much anal detail to spelling and semantics on a board?

If you're going to make a statement which relies heavily on facts, your facts should be correct. Fairly simple.

As for spelling, if your too lazy to use spellcheck well, that's just annoying.

 

[Anonymous]

If you're going to make a statement which relies heavily on facts, your facts should be correct. Fairly simple.

As for spelling, if your too lazy to use spellcheck well, that's just annoying.

How ironic?

Is SPELLCHECK a word now then fuckwad?

I always thought it was hyphenated.

Attention to detail???

 

[Anonymous]

May I ask a serious question? I am thinking of applying to one of the open positions and given what I've read here and elsewhere and have some serious doubts.

Can anyone give me an honest and straight answer regarding the potential, culture, etc.

I realize these boards get a bit crazy but, I'd appreciate some honest feedback.

 

[Anonymous]

How ironic?

Is SPELLCHECK a word now then fuckwad?

I always thought it was hyphenated.

Attention to detail???

Nice language, do you eat your mother with that mouth? Of course, you do.

As for the spelling error, I'm shocked you caught it. Of course you missed the grammatical error. Your/You're.

Move along, now.

 

[Anonymous]

Nice language, do you eat your mother with that mouth? Of course, you do.

As for the spelling error, I'm shocked you caught it. Of course you missed the grammatical error. Your/You're.

Move along, now.

But I am not the one with the issues. You are but you plainly have no grasp of language.

What was the gramatical issue?

you're was spelt correctly as the apostrophe replaces the missing 'a'

 

[Anonymous]

May I ask a serious question? I am thinking of applying to one of the open positions and given what I've read here and elsewhere and have some serious doubts.

Can anyone give me an honest and straight answer regarding the potential, culture, etc.

I realize these boards get a bit crazy but, I'd appreciate some honest feedback.

If this is a serious question, after what you have read on here, then yes I suggest that a company like Salient might be just right for you.

Tell us where you are from and we'll let you know if your potential RBD is just as dumb

 

[Anonymous]

But I am not the one with the issues. You are but you plainly have no grasp of language.

What was the gramatical issue?

you're was spelt correctly as the apostrophe replaces the missing 'a'

Now, before you go back to mother......

The word "your" was incorrect in the last sentence. "As for spelling, if your too lazy to use spellcheck well, that's just annoying." Should have been you're.

I won't even bother correcting the mistakes in the above

 

[Anonymous]

Now, before you go back to mother......

The word "your" was incorrect in the last sentence. "As for spelling, if your too lazy to use spellcheck well, that's just annoying." Should have been you're.

I won't even bother correcting the mistakes in the above

But that's my point. It does not concern me. Don't bitch about accuracies when you display so few

 

[Anonymous]

BTW

My ma is dead, which is why yours is round and has been consoling me so fine

 

[Anonymous]

May I ask a serious question? I am thinking of applying to one of the open positions and given what I've read here and elsewhere and have some serious doubts.

Can anyone give me an honest and straight answer regarding the potential, culture, etc.

I realize these boards get a bit crazy but, I'd appreciate some honest feedback.

I think you can see the caliber of postees on this board, many of which are ex or present Salient employees. That answers the question of culture.

Potential - Surely the only 10 year old START UP company. Enough said?

 

[Anonymous]

BTW

My ma is dead, which is why yours is round and has been consoling me so fine

Wow, you're into necrophilia? My mother passed many years ago.

You are seriously twisted.

 

[Anonymous]

Wow, you're into necrophilia? My mother passed many years ago.

You are seriously twisted.

Still got more emotion out of her than doing your dad

 

[Anonymous]

ENOUGH ALREADY, BOTH OF YOU.

 

[Anonymous]

May I ask a serious question? I am thinking of applying to one of the open positions and given what I've read here and elsewhere and have some serious doubts.

Can anyone give me an honest and straight answer regarding the potential, culture, etc.

I realize these boards get a bit crazy but, I'd appreciate some honest feedback.

Let's see if we can bring some decorum back to this thread.

To answer your question seriously, many of the posts related to the device and it challenges, management and lack of new products is true.

Depending on where you are in the country, it can be even more challenging. Due to the lack of published data, the large academic and bigger systems are very difficult to do business in. The power of the VAC's is tremendous these days and we just don't have the data to make a strong enough clinical or economic argument.

As to the management, it is lacking to say the least. Most, if not all, RBD's are former AM's that were promoted and have not a clue how to manage. A couple seem rather insecure about this and are just plain toxic. The upper management has not figured out that listening to the people in the field may actually be beneficial. In fact, it is a retaliatory culture in that if you speak up, you do so at your own peril.

The comp plan did change numerous times last year and who knows what they will do this year. They cut some AM's salaries and not others so, despite what the in-house recruiter tells you about all salaries being the same, they are not.

If you are female, this is really not the place to be. I hate to say it but, it really is an "old boy's club" There are a few exceptions but, overall it is an incredibly sexist culture. That is a direct reflection of a number of the RBD's and goes all the way to the top. All the RBD's and AVP's are male. Just a fact.

I sincerely believe if the economy were better, people would be leaving in droves. If you are desperate for a job, then I suppose anything would do. Otherwise, do yourself a favor and look elsewhere.

 

[Anonymous]

Still got more emotion out of her than doing your dad

Good lord, you did my father as well?

Very twisted!

 

[Anonymous]

Let's see if we can bring some decorum back to this thread.

To answer your question seriously, many of the posts related to the device and it challenges, management and lack of new products is true.

Depending on where you are in the country, it can be even more challenging. Due to the lack of published data, the large academic and bigger systems are very difficult to do business in. The power of the VAC's is tremendous these days and we just don't have the data to make a strong enough clinical or economic argument.

As to the management, it is lacking to say the least. Most, if not all, RBD's are former AM's that were promoted and have not a clue how to manage. A couple seem rather insecure about this and are just plain toxic. The upper management has not figured out that listening to the people in the field may actually be beneficial. In fact, it is a retaliatory culture in that if you speak up, you do so at your own peril.

The comp plan did change numerous times last year and who knows what they will do this year. They cut some AM's salaries and not others so, despite what the in-house recruiter tells you about all salaries being the same, they are not.

If you are female, this is really not the place to be. I hate to say it but, it really is an "old boy's club" There are a few exceptions but, overall it is an incredibly sexist culture. That is a direct reflection of a number of the RBD's and goes all the way to the top. All the RBD's and AVP's are male. Just a fact.

I sincerely believe if the economy were better, people would be leaving in droves. If you are desperate for a job, then I suppose anything would do. Otherwise, do yourself a favor and look elsewhere.

THE MOST SENSIBLE CONTRIBUTION OF THE DAY.

The final paragraph just about sums it up (whilst the whole post is accurate). I don't think anybody actually wants to be there. The morale, or lack thereof, is shocking.

I heard that they were ditching the Rolex's in AZ this year, in favor of calendars, so that reps can count down the days...

 

[Anonymous]

THE MOST SENSIBLE CONTRIBUTION OF THE DAY.

The final paragraph just about sums it up (whilst the whole post is accurate). I don't think anybody actually wants to be there. The morale, or lack thereof, is shocking.

I heard that they were ditching the Rolex's in AZ this year, in favor of calendars, so that reps can count down the days...

Agreed!

 

[Anonymous]

Agreed!

You heard about the calendars too?

 

[Anonymous]

You heard about the calendars too?

LOL! No, but that is a very funny visual. Joe and John handing out calendars with a picture of the new, half empty building on the cover and each month displaying a picture of an AM begging a surgeon to use the AQM or perhaps visual depictions of our supposed non-existent competition or just blank for all our new products!

 

[Anonymous]

They could fill the calendars in with the Company strategy



March 1st - Compensation plan review

April 1st - New product launch - 4 new devices, 2 females promoted to RBD, Base salary increase, Professional, and structured, management training, Credible clinical data published, Clinical enquiry received about Aquamantys products received at HQ

May 1st - Compensation plan review

September 1st - Compensation plan review