OrthoAccel Reviews

Management! The CEO is extremely intelligent and polite; however, he is either naive or truly oblivious to the games being played in his company. Unfortunately for the company, there are some awful employees serving in executive management positions, specifically at the Vice President and Director level. They are making poor decisions and ruining the company. Favoritism runs rampant here, so do not expect to get a fair shot if you end up with a poor manager. Company policies vary from department to department and there is absolutely no employee loyalty. There are some really great people in high power positions that truly know what goes on behind the scenes, but they are cowards and refuse to speak up for the little people. As someone previously posted, an employee was being laid off and management spun it like the employee chose to leave in a company e-mail. The company is extremely wasteful with money, they rent a corporate apartment for the executive management team that does not live near head quarters. If all other in office personnel have to work at HQ, practice what you preach. They should be required to move to Houston. The only team that should be working remote is the sales team. The sales territories are constantly changing and the sales managers are the last to know that their territories have changed. They spend months/years building up a territory and the executive management team decides that they need some new blood in there. Where is the loyalty? When you are constantly changing your sales reps, it reflects poorly on the company. Customers like consistency not musical chairs. What they pay there executive management team and key opinion leaders is outrageous! When you are hired, the company is quick to low ball your salary for the people that actually do the work.

First, let's look at the complaints lodged in other reviews. Favoritism? Yes, it's true. - Some in Sales and Marketing with desk jobs allowed to telecommute, others forced to commute into office even though initially hired as telecommute employees. At least one manager forced out of job because they lived in another state and wouldn't move to Texas. - Seems like clique of ex-Invisalign employees throughout Sales and Marketing driving many strategies. Outside ideas not all that welcome. - One engineer has supercomputer laptop with huge dual monitors at his desk. He also has a backup laptop the rest of us have to beg IT to get for a primary computer. - Promotion of individuals to director level with little measurable performance or successful experience in an area. - Sales understandably drives revenue for the company, but frequency and extent of their bonuses far outweigh rest of company even though others work just as hard or harder. Many Meetings? Yes, it's true. - Building a strong company with smart organization and efficiency seem low in priority to senior management. It's all about revenue generation, no matter how much dust gets kicked up. - Program Management is certainly inexperienced, functioning somewhere between inept and oblivious. Given these two things, the only alternative is to hold an incessant number of meetings to complete tasks. Good while it lasts... - Patent expires on Acceledent technology in a few years (public info), so it seems like executives are making an all or nothing sprint towards ACQUISITION while there's still time. Acquisition often means big payout for senior management, and likely layoffs for mostly everyone else. The ballooning costs and organizational inefficiencies are easily shed through layoffs when the acquisition happens by a big company. Some extra things you may want to know. - No executive voice for quality and regulatory such as a Chief Compliance Officer, which one might expect for a Class 2 medical device company. - No CTO or tech voice in senior management. - IT is located under Finance department and also (strangely) manages facilities maintenance. - Does not invest in IT infrastructure to support efficient Finance and Sales operations. Many companies with greater revenues have fewer finance people, lower costs, and better IT infrastructure. - Senior Management's solution to challenges is often to just add more people. - Single-product company. - Top heavy company with management. - 401k program does not match. There are issues at every job, but the seemingly tunnel vision outlook for the company makes it questionable for people wanting to help grow a company and be recognized with commensurate career growth.