Boston Scientific Reviews

Pros

Fellow workers are decent human beings and are great to work with!!! keep up the great work.

Cons

Supervisors in gway have to much power intrusted to them.be afraid to be disliked by one ,it may cost you your job.two years of bliss under a realy easy going gentleman to fearing for my job now with another...taraget sheets that are against line clearance used to gather information for management...sweat shop worker pops to mind even though i achive taragets put in front of me i feel it stops me getting promoted to the job i feel id do good at.

Advice to Senior Management

Take a look at bulling by management taking full advantage of the position they have been given. Seniour management should question more why people have been laid off by assitance of supervisor.not meeting expectations isnt enough..when i started working in this company it was Quality not Qauntity and the company wanted to let every one avail of promotion or education. Thats at the descretion of supervisor and manager also.I can do better you can too.

Pros

BSC was a company that seemed to respect it's employees, seemed to be very flexible about accommodating my family's schedule, and had a very friendly atmosphere.

Cons

During my time at BSC, it seemed like there was a lot of miscommunication and/or lack of communication when projects involved more than one department. This would result in a lot of unneeded anxiety, stress, and after-hours work.

Pros

BSC makes compelling products, and management is pretty forward thinking of late about using the best technology possible. I've had great options for career advancement and feel like I'm part of a solid team.

Cons

It's a very large company - this is both a blessing and a curse. There have been movements to use offshore teams more in the last 4 years.

Advice to Senior Management

Less VPs, more engineers. Follow the Apple model and put your money into engineering better products rather than employing more VPs.

Pros

Ability to be part of a company that makes products that save and improve people's lives. Excellent benefits and competitive pay. Chance to work with many intelligent people.

Cons

Some procedures that are counterproductive and required learning that may be irrelevant or redundant within certain jobs. Could use more local IT support.

Advice to Senior Management

Replace procedure with process in some departments. Add more local IT support.

Pros

well run, large company, lots of capital

Cons

bureaucratic, can be a bit of a drain

Advice to Senior Management

work harder

Pros

here is a long tradition of some great products at Boston Legacy as well as Guidant.

Cons

Their main hope is to be bought by J&J. BSC is working hard at destroying the Guidant CRM legacy. Vertical Communication is horrible.

Advice to Senior Management

Ask employees before implementing your inane fixes. Stop laying off so many good people.

Pros

Very competitive benefits, onsite learning opportunities, certain departments hire from within, they take chances on new college graduates, great education reimbursement, some flexible working schedules (depends on what department you are in)

Cons

In less than 3 years of my career there have been multiple layoffs and rumors of future layoffs and outsourcing. Typical corporate atmosphere where their best solution to the political and economic climate is to layoff and/or outsource while senior leadership makes millions in compensation (CEO compensation is a matter of public record. Look it up). There was a major discrepancy in workload for my department, and noticeable favoritism. People who continued to slack off experienced no apparent repercussions while those who worked efficiently were rewarded with more work. Those who carry the workload do so to the point of exhaustion and frustration, with no end in site. The culture is reactive versus proactive. Due to the size of the company, any changes made have to go through so much bureaucratic red tape that by the time the changes comes, nobody can remember the point. Collectively, this all has resulted in a loss of top talent to other companies.

Advice to Senior Management

Gather employee input when making changes to processes. The people "on the ground" have the most knowledge on the actual ins and outs of their department. Leaving the planning of major changes to "corporate" where they have no idea of how their changes actually impact the employees will only serve to further decrease morale.

Get with the times and get creative. Don't be such a typical corporation. Do something different. There are so many other ways to cut costs. Just ask your employees and I'm sure they could give you an earful. Allowing more telecommuting and flexible work schedules would be a good start.

Don't continue to ask the employees to make due with less, while there is no apparent suffering at the top. If we make due with less, than so should our leadership.

Do more to retain talent within the company. Reward those who consistently excel in their role. Don't continue to push along those who continue to be a drain to departments.

Pros

Good place to work and develop
Good systems in place to drive lean production
Good Quality Systems and principle based manufacturing

Cons

Looking to shrink on cost structure far more than increasing sales
Divesting Miami site to Costa Rica
Laid off all Miami employees effective 2012

Advice to Senior Management

In general management was very engaged in the day to day and operated professionally. There are always sour grapes with a particular manager but we all have those -- its important to keep perspective; if the plant were still open many people would have worked there for a long time, even for life.

Pros

The corporate makes a lot of good products that make an important difference in the quality of patient lives. The simple mission statement: " I improve the quality of patient care and all things Boston Scientific."

Cons

Debt maintenance from past acquisitions (purchasing of Guidant at all costs) with its long term impact on business performance as well as the resulting preoccupation with cost reductions. Willingness to eliminate/outsource QA jobs after the FDA Corporate warning letter was lifted. Increased outsourcing of US jobs.

Advice to Senior Management

Don't forget that the patient comes first in the mission statement as you concentrate on cost cutting by eliminating and outsourcing US jobs to improve margins.

Pros

Patient interaction, good benefits, help people, innovative medical device

Cons

Slow advancement, no defined career path for some positions

Advice to Senior Management

Clearly define career paths with achievable and measureable goals, and continue to improve pay structure in order to retain quality employees.