Dexcom reviews

3.6

59% would recommend to a friend

(1,464 total reviews)
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77% approve of CEO

60% positive business outlook

Dexcom has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 1,464 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Dexcom employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufactura industry (3.5 stars).

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1K reviews
1.0
Jun 11, 2018

Broken Promises

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

• Amazing product with a lot of promise which can make a difference in people's lives. • Great coworkers. • Decent pay.

Cons

• Horrid management overall. • Micromanaging taken to the extreme. • Breaks and lunches are timed down to the second with no more than a minute allowance. • Time taken in the bathroom is timed and watched closely. A total of 15 minutes for an entire day is allowed. • Shifts are assigned with a random number generator with no regards to performance, seniority, or any other commitments in a person's life. • Performance is highly scrutinized with time down to the second while the computers and poorly developed in house data entry software that are very badly performing being the biggest roadblock. • Very little regards to the health of the employees. If you are sick, come to work. If you get everyone else sick, they come to work. If they get more sick, all those people come to work. If anyone gets sick at all, due to the pressure to not call out and use up what little sick time you have, expect the entire place to look like the plague in a week or two. Expect this to be a regular thing to happen. • All the above is evaluated with a point system. It is very easy to rack up points and quickly get to where you are not considered for promotions and shortly after that have termination looming over you as an intimidation factor. • In technical support, it is more important to rush people off the phone. Short call times are more important than actual resolution. • Poor communication between the different departments in the office leading to confusion with policies, procedures, goals, and other information needed. • Eroding workplace culture that is quickly becoming a depressing place to be for 8 hours of your day. • Cubical farm. • The director positions are a revolving door. • Listening to management/supervisors talking about their enjoyable times they had outside of work, laughing constantly and joking about nonsense, spending a large percentage of their days talking about things entirely unrelated to work all while they are paid for it. Doing this all around you is like a back hand to the face while you are pushed harder and harder. • Little or no respect for work/life balance. • Career opportunities are rare or nonexistent.

1.0
Jun 8, 2018

Technical Support

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great Benefits and saving lives.

Cons

Tech Support is a joke. It's a different company inside Dexcom, you're treated differently, and you’re not part of the whole. Poor Management, terrible decisions, no standard procedures to follow, each head is a sentence. Whoever follow the company's policy is yelled at by Patients and when the issue is escalated the Lead or Supervisor just give free stuff to make patient feel better, going against Company's policy, creating a never end vicious cycle. Supervisor do not back you up on your decisions with Patients. When you first start, they claim it's a friendly environment, where everybody helps each other, once you're on the phone; it’s every man for himself. You're bullied if you made your Lead or Supervisor do some extra work, since they claim they already have a lot on their plates. When a Patient demands to speak to a Manager, you're bullied if you escalate the call and also bullied if you didn't do it. Any whole Company event you are not part of it, because you're paid to be on the phone, not part of the event. Dexcom created a program called DexcomGo, where theorically you would be evaluated internally and if the position you're at does not fit your profile, they would bring you to a different area, to have the best people doing the best job they can. NOBODY has ever transferred internally due to this program, another joke at Dexcom. There is no perspective of growing. On personal evaluation, there is no consistency, you may have reached the goals but it's never good enough and you have no saying when this happen, your Sup acts like a God. Management presented new software to make things faster, it's been almost 2 years, and no fixes have done to make the 'new' software faster, it slows down everything, bringing frustration and low performance, but it's been almost 2 years that Supervisors have been demanding faster performance on our end. Although Management keeps alerting that the Company is still not making any money yet, Sups and Leads keep giving away free stuff when Patient is frustrated, in another hand they tend to control your breaks by the seconds, because it costs a lot of money to the Company when you're seconds late, but it's ok to give away free equipment that costs thousands of dollars to have happy patients out there.

2.0
Jun 5, 2018

Good and bad

Recommend
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Pros

Great co workers, good overtime

Cons

Horrible management especially leads, leads give you a hard time in an already fast paced environment. Always changing their minds on overtime. No respect to employees or respect towards employees pleas to request time off. Favoritism and lack of inspiration to succeed in manufacturing. Very strict on break times especially if your a 1 min late.

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