Cochlear Reviews

-Management is self interested and really doesn't give a damn about the staff -Zero succession planning, really no opportunity for promotion, horizontal movement only. They would rather bring someone else in than grow their own -Salary is pathetic. The ex-APAC HR director once told me that "we don't pay a lot because we are kind of like a charity"....no joke. This is a billion dollar company.

Unfortunately, the company wants to become a corporation, meaning the bureaucracy has grown exponentially and management believes the best course of action is to introduce another 7 layers of managers to each department. Some of my colleagues have 3 to 4 different bosses for the same project, all of them screaming the project has to be finished soon by one engineer and they compromise on more stuff to do every day without expanding the engineering pool. The CEO (and the so-called sponsor team) has grown a little too far in the marketing area and truly believe the company needs to become a store of sorts, cutting down investment on the development and increasing it in marketing/sales, wasting most of the money on events that gather little to none interest of partners or regions we want to grow in. It seems to me the good old days of this company are long gone and I am just watching its downfall.