Boston Scientific Reviews

Pros

Great working environment, pay and benifits

Cons

Company closed our division to transfer to Ireland and I hear now the successful product line we transfered has become a failure

Advice to Senior Management

You get what you pay for when you ship manufacturing jobs overseas

Pros

Detailed work environment. Very controlled.

Cons

Management that is bad at communications and numbers obsessed.

Advice to Senior Management

Listen to the little guys. Work on new products from the ground level up. Keep people on better contracts that reward results and involvement.

Pros

Family Work balance
Fair Pay
Good people

Cons

Industry downturn
stock instability
Segragated supply chain

Advice to Senior Management

reorganize organization to reduce independant functions and operate an integreated business units.

Pros

Great opportunity with many intelligent people. Always interesting to work at a facility that has a large amount of resources.

Cons

Generally a narrow focus within a larger group. Can be tough to see the impact of the work done on the big picure.

Advice to Senior Management

More collaboration between different groups and possibly more training on some of the uses and applications of the devices used.

Pros

Good training and education programs. Strong engineers working with company. Subject Matter Experts are very knowledgeable and are well qualified.

Cons

It has poor product differentiation. Too reliant on certain products. Senior/Executive management ability is debatable due to poor performance of company over the last number of years.

Advice to Senior Management

Provide better incentives to staff to perform well. Reduce the number of middle managers. The organizational structure is not flat enough.

Pros

They provide state of the art electronic equipment and willing to provide industry training.
The side perks are a great cafeteria and gym

Cons

up to the year 2000, all went well, since then BSC started to slide. Specifically with the aquisition of guidant andthe coporate warning letter.

Advice to Senior Management

back to basics of what made you great, Focus on IR and Cardiology call points. Divest other areas such as neurology and auditory.

Pros

The technology is interesting, and you can clearly see how the products affect patient health. Great opportunities to view live cases and see the products in action. I enjoyed the global scope of my work and learning about international operations.

The decent benefits and relatively flexible work schedules were nice.

Cons

The people I worked with were the most depressed and unhappy people I have ever met. Layoffs started happening multiple times a year, and management generally stopped bothering to communicate about them. In the morning you'd come to your desk and hear a broadcast voicemail from the execs announcing the "changes," but you'd have to whisper to people in the hallways to learn who was affected.

My colleagues in the quality division were never expected to leave their cubicles. Face-to-face communication was rarely possible with divisions scattered around the world, and work was tracked and timed in the clunky, rarely-updated database system. Managers openly assigned work according to who pissed them off the most/least, and favoritism was rampant. Office drama and battles were chronic and reminiscent of junior high. INSANE micromanagement. The environment was unbelievably unprofessional.

Product training was minimal to non-existent, which made doing the work difficult - and no one really knew if they were doing the work correctly.

Opportunities for advancement were nonexistent - some colleagues were promised promotions for years that never came to fruition.

Salary negotiation with the job offer was also nonexistent, and dealing with HR during the hiring process was a nightmare. They're not afraid to lowball you on salary due to the economy/current job market.

Advice to Senior Management

Grow up. Respect your staff. Try communicating honestly for once.

Pros

An interesting industry, very competitive pay and great people make this an enjoyable place to work. With sites in both east and west metro there is more room for advancement.

Cons

Continually changing priorites coming from HQ made it very difficult to stay energized. We would not be done implementing one major iniative when it would be scrapped and replaced with something else. The revolving door for CEO's doesn't help.

Advice to Senior Management

Make thoughtful, INFORMED desicions. Get enought subject matter experts involved to truly understand the issues and then stick with your initiatives.

Pros

Great technology and great peer group to work in on at the team level. There is a wealth of expertise and experience available from within the ranks of BSX and it seems to be shared among hose that are well networked.

Cons

Management is disengaged on how to retain top talent and how to compensate in a fair manner across the board. Too main bureaucratic processes in place to make things streamlined.

Advice to Senior Management

You have to communicate effectively to employees and it has be pushed out versus begged for from employees. Management has to show more a long-term focus versus a quarter-to-quarter to make themselves look good and get the promotion/bonus.

Pros

Encouraged and supported independent work and was not micromanaged

Cons

Promotions, raises and bonus not dispensed equally -- seemed to be given to management favorites -- did not give all employees opportunity to shine to assist in moving up in company.

Advice to Senior Management

All employees should be given opportunity to grow and be promoted within company.