27 Nov 2024
Digital Surgery Reviews
3.8
68% would recommend to a friend
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
4.0
21 Oct 2023
Acquired start-up; bumpy ride but moving in the right direction
Current employee, more than 3 years
London, England
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
4.0
19 May 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook
Pros
Remote working Global Scale Friendly Team
Cons
Functions are all spread out globally
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