Omnicell

I did not enjoy my time at Omnicell. I was excited when I first started as it was a completely new team and they paid much better than my previous company for similar work. I looked forward to new challenges and seeing how the role would develop. I had a female boss but it quickly became apparent that she was not supported and her ideas were constantly shot down and she was not able to make changes. She soon left the position and the team she created was eliminated. I was fortunate enough at the time to be asked to stay on. I was transferred to a new team with a male supervisor that was inexperienced. He was an individual contributor on that team that got thrown into the management role because the supervisor left and he had been on the team the longest. While he was a nice person outside of work, it was clear that he was not respected as a leader and did not have the skills and characteristics of a strong leader. He was easily manipulated, micromanaging, and did not make his team feel valued. He did not back his employees up or consider how changes might affect the team. People were not recognized for their hard work and promotions were rarely given. Ideas were regularly shot down and when people asked for new challenges they were not given opportunities. After having a professional conversation with my manager about trying to adjust our styles to better work together and my feelings of being micromanaged he began treating me differently. He began criticizing me in front of others, asked me to copy him on all of my outgoing correspondences, looking up what time I badged in. He had other people look at my social media pages and would bring up things I did on my days off (scheduled vacation) and chastise me about missing work to do those things. He even called me into his office one day to tell me that he went around and asked other people on the team if they thought he micromanaged and that they said “no,” so I was the only one that thought that. I went to HR to and put in my two weeks and discussed what had been going on with my manager. The HR person talked me into staying and suggested trying to move to a new team or at least staying until I found something new. The next day my boss called me in and said he thought there must be some miscommunication happening and that every thing was good. 4 months later I was laid off and told that my role had been eliminated and was no longer needed.

The environment was pretty stale as well. People were nice but clearly not interested in making genuine connections with each other. For the first 6 months of my job I ate lunch alone until a new hire came on board that I was able to befriend. It is the only company that I have ever worked for where I did not connect with coworkers and develop a lasting outside of work friendship. There is a lack of diversity and resistance to change. Many people that work there are lifers. I think they stay because while the environment isn’t that great it’s stable and the pay is competitive. They also had good benefits.

I believe in the product that they sell and the companies overall mission. But the internal atmosphere was not for me.

I worked at Omnicell for several years. In the time that I work there I had four different bosses. Received actually a few awards for all my hard work and dedication.The last boss that I had ended up wanting to get his buddy that had no experience in the position that I held . He found a way of getting me laid off even though I dedicated a lot of hard work and time to that company I was very upset. He humiliated me and embarrassed me . They don’t care about the dedication and all the hard work whatever management says goes . Hard-working dedication doesn’t matter .

When I worked at omnicell, it was an old boy network with a STRONG bias against women in leadership that ended up being forced out in very unprofessional manners.

Worked as contract and in interview, stated around when I could start in the AM, but after a few weeks, they wanted me to start 3 hours earlier. The one male senior employee constantly tried to push extra work on me so that he could do less, even though I was being paid less and was less experienced than the regular employees. After calling him out in front of Management a few times, he told me that I better keep my mouth shut and not cause problems. Luckily he ended up leaving the department soon after. Seeing interactions with upper Management and their subordinates was embarrassing to watch and they definitely had the same attitude of doing what is told with no questions, even just for clarification.

I can only imagine that people stay here because they feel that they have no other option.
This is Silicon Valley, trust me, no one has to tolerate this behavior.

Omnicell is an amazing company to work for the people there are genuine. Their product is top notch

Very much run a group of men with token women on the board and in senior leadership. This is so much the case that when they rang the bell for the anniversary of their IPO, they felt the need to bring their wives to even the ratio. Theat pretty much says it all.

Talented women here feel the shroud of male intimidation on a daily basis. Even the very few women in executive positions will outright say they ‘have no power to make changes’. Sales and Marketing is dominated by white males who are arrogant and clearly consider women a corporate obligation. Men are credited with making ‘the big deals’ and if a women is involved, it’s to cater to the female customers involved in decision making. (think female pharmacists, nurses, healthcare executives of which there are plenty) . The VP of Marketing exhibits a visible tic when women challenge him in meetings. There is a huge imbalance of stress women carry compared to men and it is glaringly apparent as one remains with the company over time.
In a recent layoff, five people in Marketing were let go –all talented women, all middle aged. Please heed this advice–look elsewhere, there is better out there. Don’t let the facade fool you.

I joined Omnicell as contracted service which became apparent was there way to reduce operational costs; they had many in this classification – the pay was at or less than others hired in same position for the same work except I was afforded no vacation, sick or holiday pay nor any health/retirement benefits. Yet I was expected to work same hours and produce the same as those on staff. I was fortunate my small team was all women so our manager was great for day-to-day leading us but she interacted to the management and sales team of men becoming one of the “boys” shutting the rest of us out as the lowly hired hands kept in the dark and when it came to standing up for rights or acknowledgment of our work, was absent for that. I had family issue of caring for my elderly mother arise the last couple of months and when balancing the work load they offered no relief and instead terminated me. Overall, I felt the company was wonderful offering telecommute position but was not structured to support such nor compensate fairly in the market. The have great product offerings and many talented people there so if management improves they would be an outstanding in employer in the market.

I joined this company under the tudilage of women leadership as there were many in the company at that time. I thought that this would be the norm – as it is the new century. In my case and that of others in the team around me women were often talked down to, work taken and used without credit given, salaries were completely unequal to counterparts (with men making more for the same title) and in most cases less work. I knew this because I managed the budget for a large team and I became to truly understand what people were paid. Pretty soon those women leaders were gone and the original team remained. While you were not told to your face you didn’t matter pretty soon a large group of women were silenced. And all that was left was the shadow. I know there are many strong women, very smart etc and the question remains why go here when there are other choices? Stick it out to find a place that will truly value your work and not play favorites or pit women against each other.

This company is dominated mostly by men. The culture is based on the ways and thoughts of a good old boy network. I often found myself thrown to the wolves without any support. The demands to meet numbers could be unrealistic, thus causing decisions to be made that were not always good.

This used to be a pretty good company. Things have changed dramatically in the last 24 months.

The company lacks diversity and women in real leadership positions. There is an old boys club at work and I have seen too many very qualified women let go in lieu of mediocre male employeeos.

Company leadership doesn’t seem focused on one mission – and it shows.

I would advise against taking a job here.

Omnicell was one of the worst places I have ever worked. My manager – a woman – refused to give me any challenging work, and it was definitely a ‘good ol’ boys’ network in upper management. I took a 30% cut in pay to work there; my previous company had closed down and I was desperate, but I would have been happy with the pay had I been given a chance to do the job I was hired to do.

Omnicell was one of the worst companies I have worked for In my career. A boys club mentality and they all have housewives. Which means no issue demanding weekend travel.
They only allow employees to take vacation over the July 4 th holiday and Christmas. Since Christmas is at the end of the fiscal year, you are expected to work during your vacation. But they require employees to “take it” to get it off the books.

When I worked at Omnicell it was still a very old school boys club. Not very flexible culture for a working mom. There were not many women in engineering – though a few managers. Hopefully it has changed.