assembler

senior cnc machinist

sales consultant

senior assembler

quality analyst

LSI Solutions

   The first the thing I noticed was the insane turnover. In my department we had 2 brand new managers (MIT's), that struggled with simple communication processes. Their inexperience drove their decision making, to run the department like a high school. The performance metrics centered around "if they liked you" not quality of quantity of work. I was told daily by various people across departments that I did a great job, even by my MIT management team. Then one day I was fired. 
    There isn't really a typical day because my department had no cleaning schedules or lists of duties, you worked until one of the MIT's gave you a project. Toward the end of my career, my projects became plentiful, when the other staff members had none. Days before my termination, my department became virtually nonexistent when dealing with me. I think this was when they decided to let me go but not telling me for a couple of days. It's one of those places. 

A typical workday involved me overseeing a case in the morning (and periodically in the afternoon if scheduled), then a very much predetermined set of calls made to physicians in the surrounding geographic area. Calls would vary from cold to a show of support for an existing customer, all with the aim of getting in the O.R. with the physician to strengthen rapport, grow existing business, or land new business. 
I learned a great deal about the industry at LSI. How to operate within the differing settings such as the O.R., offices, trade shows, training labs, and social/extra-curricular settings. 
Hardest part of the job was developing a sternness with the surgeon while he/she manipulated our device. This is important because if used improperly, the results can be catastrophic. Speaking up and correcting the surgeon is paramount for proper function and optimal results.

This could be a great place to work, unfortunately it isn't. The best part about working at LSI are the benefits and the jobs are easy.  If you do decide to work here don't apply for the cleanroom, once you are in the cleanroom, do not expect to get out, so just don't even apply for it. This company has created a structure including letting you disobey the rules so they can use it against you later one. That includes denying jobs or just terminating you. This also means you have zero job security as you will be wondering every day if you still have a job or not. LSI has an insane turn over rate which is why they always have positions that need filled. Nepotism is incredibly strong here, which creates a big problem as unqualified people get higher paying jobs but have zero clue what they are doing which makes everyone else's job harder.

Management had no structure on organizing and working with new hires. Most new hires are thrown to the wolves and are left having to learn the process on their own. After they are left to figure out their duties from the lack of support some are let go with little to no explanation. Owner of the company is know to degrade employees and scream unprofessionally at them when dealing with specific topics, management also has an issue with talking about other employees behind their back in an extremely rude and unprofessional manner. The only positive to this job was the hours were nice and the pay was decent. Other than that it was just a onward battle of little to no support as well as an incredible amount of a lack of communication. 

The only upside here is knowing your work contributes to surgical tools that save lives. Beyond that, come for the paycheck and expect to be a robot like how the executives will see you.

Executives don't actually care about their employees, they just mask it with food trucks, pastries, and that best workplace awards that they manage to get. Management micromanages constantly, writes people up without understanding their roles, and when bottlenecks happen, there's always an employee to blame instead of leadership.

The workplace culture is toxic. Gossip runs rampant, a tight-knit clique controls who advances, and if you're not in their circle, you're going nowhere. It's high school with a badge and a timecard.

Work here if you need the money and that’s it.

You go in read where youre assigned to. Different cells therefore different things to do inspection, aseembly line, testing and other things in a clean room enviroment  some days you get the opportunity to be in different areas depending on your time there and your knoledge culture is good varies. Alot of people from different parts of the world. The hardest part of the job is the travel time during snow time if you dont live close, favoritism with team leads and other workers. Having to come in and do the same job for weeks and weeks to a yr before being able to get trained somewhere else. Most enjoyable part of the job alot of team building activies,lunch an,the people and going home

Typical day depends on the project you are on, either full of tasks or lack of everything.  I learned that I should not have trusted anyone there.  Management is interesting, could be better, but the lack of proper training by upper management is widely known.  Workplace is great, some of the people I met were great, some = 3.  Hardest part of the job is knowing what to do.  Training is pretty good, but the expectation is off the charts.  New employees are expected to excel after the subpar initial training.  Free food is good, but this doesn't make up for all the other negatives.  Its too bad the underlying structure of the company is so broken, since the products are so cool

Balancing working with different credit union/banks can be a bit difficult because they required different steps and different information to input and you have to make sure that you are following and paying really close attention to details. I also didn't like how the request off is set up because sometimes it takes a long time to get it approved and sometimes they don't approve your time off until like 1 or 2 days before you need it off and that can be very frustrating.

If you are interested in a surgical sales position at LSI please make note of the following:

Compensation
Base salary is only valid through 1 year, than you are commission only. Commission is 3% of base business and 10% new growth.

Car Allowance
$600 and includes gas, parking fees, and tolls

Management
There is not one single manager at the company who has outside sales experience or who has worked in the medical, pharmaceutical, or healthcare industry.

PTO
First year is 1 week only

The company is carried by the success of its products.

Training, management, documentation, communication across departments are all terrible. Rampant nepotism and favoritism. Was thrown to the wolves and forced to learn everything on my own.

Owners desperately try to hide the fact that they make tens of millions in profit every year, while claiming they are not in it for the money.  They are very scared workers will find out and ask for more raises/bonuses.



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