Natus Medical FAQ

Pros

Good Benefits, pension, Healthcare Flexi-time and hybrid working options People are great

Cons

The organisation can lack leadership or organisation in certain departments

Pros

Good work/life balance. Stable employment in stable industry. Coworkers are nice. Free pop and coffee.

Cons

- Poor compensation compared to experience. - Very limited advancement opportunities. - Management way out of touch with industry and modern workplace dynamics. - High turnover of new hires. Continual hiring of people obviously using the company as a stepping stone. Too much weight given to paper. - Interdepartmental friction. Departments view each others' competence poorly. - Salary and compensation information NDA. Employees at the same role may receive greatly differing compensation. Has been an issue several times. - Very slow to adapt to changes in the industry. - Crippling redundant processes. Endless signoffs and quizzes required on process documentation irrelevant to the job. Poorly documented and broken tools. - Benefits don't match other companies' offerings. Canadian benefits don't match American ones. - Software codebases and compatibility extremely outdated. Spaghetti legacy code. Codebase is so outdated that current development doesn't even understand how some portions of the software work. Expect to be endlessly putting out small fires inside a burning building. - Management are way out of touch with modern employee and industry needs. Management can't be trusted. - HR can't be trusted. HR only cares about the company, not the people. - Regressive work environment out of the 1970s. - Sick building syndrome.

Advice to Management

Nothing can fix this company other than a complete overhaul of everything from the top down. It will otherwise lumber along this way until taken over by a larger company like Stryker or Siemens.

Pros

Good team, compensation and time off.

Cons

Understaffed and product development is too focused on new features when so many product deficiencies should be addressed first.

Pros

Nice people, remote work options and good benefits

Cons

Horrible processes; does not invest in their employees (salary, 401K, low bonuses, ESPP, Equity), many Senior Managers been with company for years and road blockers to anything progressive.

Advice to Management

Start investing in employees or will see talent leave and hard to recruit good people

Pros

Good work/life balance. Stable employment in stable industry. Coworkers are nice. Free pop and coffee.

Cons

- Poor compensation compared to experience. - Very limited advancement opportunities. - Management way out of touch with industry and modern workplace dynamics. - High turnover of new hires. Continual hiring of people obviously using the company as a stepping stone. Too much weight given to paper. - Interdepartmental friction. Departments view each others' competence poorly. - Salary and compensation information NDA. Employees at the same role may receive greatly differing compensation. Has been an issue several times. - Very slow to adapt to changes in the industry. - Crippling redundant processes. Endless signoffs and quizzes required on process documentation irrelevant to the job. Poorly documented and broken tools. - Benefits don't match other companies' offerings. Canadian benefits don't match American ones. - Software codebases and compatibility extremely outdated. Spaghetti legacy code. Codebase is so outdated that current development doesn't even understand how some portions of the software work. Expect to be endlessly putting out small fires inside a burning building. - Management are way out of touch with modern employee and industry needs. Management can't be trusted. - HR can't be trusted. HR only cares about the company, not the people. - Regressive work environment out of the 1970s. - Sick building syndrome.

Advice to Management

Nothing can fix this company other than a complete overhaul of everything from the top down. It will otherwise lumber along this way until taken over by a larger company like Stryker or Siemens.