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Digital Surgery Reviews

3.8

68% would recommend to a friend

(16 total reviews)

67% positive business outlook

Digital Surgery has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 16 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there.

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16 reviews
2.0
8 Jan 2019

No Clear Vision

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Overall, the people are creative, open to collaboration, and work very hard.

Cons

The company leadership changes direction so often that it is hard to know what your goals and your role are from month-to-month. Unrealistic demands regarding product development, sales, etc. are placed in front of teams, often without the team managers weighing in. One of the co-founders has much grander ideas than are realistic given the resources of the company. They have experienced lay-offs within the last year on certain teams, with high turnover in some key roles (CEO, VPs, etc.) There is also no HR director, which makes it difficult to bring concerns forward as an employee without fear of reprisal. There is also no clear product and future revenue stream other than capital investments.

1.0
31 Dec 2018

Rebranded company, still awful

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

This company is also known as Touch Surgery. Please check out the reviews of Touch Surgery before taking a job at this company.

Cons

They laid off 50 employees and are now looking to grow again, proceed with caution

4.0
21 Oct 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Plenty of problems to solve, hence plenty of opportunities for motivated engineers - Work/life balance engineers are not expected to work crazy hours (It's down to personal choice) - Managers are likely to take a chance on you if you want to change lanes career-wise - There is some budget for learning and development (but you have to ask for things -- don't expect to be spoonfed or you'll stagnate) - Being part of a corporation means there are opportunities to move jobs internally as well as a ladder to climb if that's your thing - A mixture of start-up-like culture and the resources and long-term strategy of a corporation (though the exact mix depends on the team you're in)

Cons

- Jack of all trades: the business has fingers in many pies, including AI, IoT, CGI, Education and Training, and Video Streaming/Management. Even after being acquired by a much larger organisation, it's hard for a business unit of this size to manage the complexity they entail let alone excel at every one of these things . - Product development has been known to encourage "code monkey"/"feature factory" engineering culture where JIRA tickets are turned over and features shipped without much thought about the value of the features or the long-term maintainability of production systems as a whole. Busy application developers and more features don't always equate to "more value" - Given the frequency of restructuring in Medtronic, some doubt hangs over the future of projects and teams - Only expect greenfield work if you're lucky/politically savvy. There is a lot of legacy code and technical debt. Touch surgery aggressively pivoted and the remnants of old products still live on in codebases

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