Not a very good place to work as a engineer - Software Engineer Open Medical Employee Review

2.0
29 Jan 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Get to learn clojure, not a very common programming language

Cons

As a tech company, their engineering team is surprisingly small and all decision is made by one person.

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1.0
23 Dec 2024
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

1. The product itself is great and is making a huge impact to healthcare 2. Some really great individuals / talent working there 3. Provide good learning opportunities

Cons

1. Toxic culture, can often be very cliquey and gossipy 2. Senior leadership are all individuals from when the start up evolved so no real experience. It would be good to bring people in from the outside to widen the knowledge and bring additional expertise. 3. Poor salary and bonus scheme. Promotions and ‘framework’ used not consistent. Seem to be implementing a framework similar to the NHS banding system and not looking at an individuals performance. 4. No trust in employees and make them go into the office 5 days a week. You need to provide a good reason if you want to work from home. 5. Lacking processes once clients have been onboarded. No Account Management or check-ins with clients, which often leads to frustration from clients who want to continue building out their system. Only prioritise new business and not keeping existing clients happy.

3
1.0
9 Apr 2024
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The only pro is the technology - it is fantastic and the only thing that is keeping this business afloat

Cons

Unqualified Senior leadership - Just because you give yourself Chief titles does not mean you have the commercial experience to justify said titles - Use the skills you have in your team! that is why you hired people! Micro-management culture driven by incompetence Poor Salaries Poor commission and Bonus scheme A culture of Blame and toxic attitudes - when senior leaders in particular think they are too big and too important to deal with their clients directly, or staff directly, that is a huge red flag CEO is probably the nicest guy in the world but chooses to surround himself with narcissists and incompetence They are very good at trying to sell to customers, but are terrible at keeping their promises and back track like no tomorrow The biggest con - absolutely NO RESPECT for staff, achievements etc - we are all just a number and the attrition rate of this company demonstrates this perfectly This is a perfect example of when the blind lead the blind - all that happens is it causes multiple casualties

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