I swear I've read this post like 3 times on the Intuitive site. It makes you wonder if you have a vendeta going on here and I question your impartial view...which seems biased. Maybe you
are right... or maybe you are a pissed off former employee...but I'd like to hear from some other employees too. I think if you come from pharma or a "cake" med device type job you won't be able to hang in at INtuitive but if you come from the halls of Ortho/Spine, Pacemakers, Heart Valves and the like you can hang with the best of em!
"Halls?" what a joke. Pace makers, disposables, spine pukes, are all a dime a dozen. Any hack with some Enterprise management and 2 years of Pharma can nail those jobs. Obviously the poster is stuck in 2005. Sorry for the wake up call douche bag. For what it's worth, here's a piece of free advice - physicians are as burned out and disgusted with Spine guy as they are with Pharma guy. Get it? I'm really sorry you didn't cut it as a pre-med student and now your delusions of grandeur are wasted on sucking physician cock, updating your facebook page with pictures of yourself in the OR pretending to be a surgeon but HEY!....to each their own. Now get fist pumpin fruityboots.
I swear I've read this post like 3 times on the Intuitive site. It makes you wonder if you have a vendeta going on here and I question your impartial view...which seems biased. Maybe you
are right... or maybe you are a pissed off former employee...but I'd like to hear from some other employees too. I think if you come from pharma or a "cake" med device type job you won't be able to hang in at INtuitive but if you come from the halls of Ortho/Spine, Pacemakers, Heart Valves and the like you can hang with the best of em!
ha! your a joke! you obviously are not on the up & up. "anyone" w/ 2 yrs Enterprise & Pharma can nail these jobs? you haven't got a clue buddy. I see pharma and B2B reps fall flat on their face in this biz. These are difficult and technical arenas we work in, especially pacemakers, spine, CV. Not saying it can't be done coming from those backgrounds but the majority cant hack it. Let's face it, your trying to keep everyone in the O.R one step ahead of the surgeon for 3+ hour cases NOT dropping off samples to get a signature.
burned out? the doc lets the pharma rep in the door because its a free lunch and she may be a hottie, a doc lets me in the door because i'm giving him the equipment he wants for his patients and because i'm reliable and keep the case moving. The doc's i deal with are great people and we have great relationships. Maybe YOU have the doc's running down the hallway to get away from you but those of us that have been around long enough KNOW the surgeons and their families and have great friendships and respect for one another.
i love how everyone who can't hack it in this industry thinks that those of us that have all think we want to be surgeons, it's comical... i love my job and have never wanted be a surgeon...student loans are a bitch...
Hey,
I have read the robo1 response a ton of times too, but the reality is that I worked with ISI for almost 4 years and the company definately changed for the worse in this time. They used to be about "being a barbarian" and selling your ass off and creating markets and disrupting existing markets for surgery. They morphed into a super micro-managed enviroment in which the CSM is just a task master. they beat you down every day and question every conversation, every interaction, and give you false praise when you achieve your goals. Every person here is extremely guarded and fake and full of shit. They have run their course of really qualified reps and are now hiring pharma reps or low level biotech reps that would kill to get into devices and will put up with the 12 hour days, weekend requirements, nighttime patient education events, and two sales meetings a year in which they work you 12-14 hours and beat you like a dog the whole time. so much for getting your breath at a sales meeting and building relationships with your co-workers. I was at a sales meeting with a 6am start (not breakfast) and our day did not end until 9pm. What a f'in joke. I am all for making a better living and working hard, but seriousley ask the person you interview with what their burn rate is with reps. The upper management blatenly lies on a regular occassion to cover their ass, and will get all the karma that they have reaped. they are glorified car salesman with silver tongues with no integrity, no morals and no ethics. just as long as they get paid. good luck.
There is truth in your post. Also, Intuitive has changed and not for the better, but the culture has always been bad. Many of the reps we now have would never have been hired years ago, it seems that we just keep hiring, has the standard been lowered?
I have a recruiter who is trying to sell me on interviewing for a job with this company. Two things strike me here. There is so much negativity printed about this company and I have to believe with this much bad press and so little positive anything, the company must suck. I don't understand why a company would think that it would be beneficial to treat their people like garbage..so stupid and counterproductive ultimately leading to their own demise. The other thing that I am wondering is why so much focus is on the negativity. We are in sales which means we bascally worship the almighty dollar more than anything else. I don't see any dollar figures being thrown around on these posts and not one person has discussed how mcuh they made.
Thank you for your reply, you are restoring some confidence in this company. Question. How interactive are you during the case with the surgeon and the staff? I would think that it would be really boring if the job entailed that you only stay in the room and watch a surgeon doing surgery for hours on end.
Why don't you interview and make a decision on your own. I can only speak for my team here. Most of us have been here for multiple years. The job is fun, fast pace, and extremely rewarding but you will work. It cracks me up that every bitter past employee and interview candidate comes here to say how horrible it is. This is the only company I know of that isn't afraid to fire employees that aren't working and not hire candidates that come off as full of themselves.
I have had the best experience with intuitive and I honestly think you are a fool if you trust all the crap written here.
