Medtronic Reviews in Redmond, WA

Pros

Stable company, great benefits, challenging work

Cons

felt limited by career advancement

Advice to Senior Management

focus

Pros

Stability of work environment, stability of the industry. A good company if you want to stay until retirement. Good benefits. Satisfaction (or at least, lack of guilt) that comes from producing products that improve, or save, people's lives.

Cons

A stifling regulatory environment that hugely increases administrative overhead. Doing engineering work here is like wading through waist high mud. Not a place for technical superstars; predictability and conformance are rewarded while outstanding technical efforts are too often left unrecognized. This is not a place where an engineer is going to make a splash right out of college; many years of experience are needed to sufficiently understand the products, usage, and regulatory environment.

Advice to Senior Management

Too many "number one priorities." There can be only one. In your business, quality must be the only number one priority, all the time.

Pros

I would have to say the mission.

Cons

There was a lot of executive turnover during 2006 and the production was suspended for a while which really affected employee morale and led to lay offs.

Advice to Senior Management

Be committed to your people and communicate, communicate, communicate.