Medtronic Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Medtronic full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – -Excellent Company Name Recognition
-Products help people live better lives
-Employees are world class
-Wide Spectrum of products
-Great Benefits
-Autonomy to do what you were hired to do

Cons – -Regular Regime Changes among Executives
-Regular downsizing/uncertainty
-Inefficiencies that never get fixed and would be easy to fix
-Product portfolio and marketing as well as strategies do not allow various divisions to be competitive
-Limited loyalty and reward for achieving targets and over performing

Advice to Senior Management – -Hold customers to contracts instead of taking a company loss
-Price more competitively to increase revenue based on customer perceived value and product life cycle vs competition
-Become more strategic vs reactive
-Truly integrate pricing/finance strategy to leverage multiline deals. Customers soon realize that just like in a store that you are spending more money to get something you did not want in the first place and not get a great discount for it. Deals should be a package that is attractive.
-Change customer perception of chaos and instability

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Medtronic full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Lots of good technology to help patients
Genuinely interested in the mission

Cons – Several straight years of layoffs
Poor employee development and talent retention

Advice to Senior Management – Work on ways to attract, retain, and develop good talent

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Medtronic

Pros – Work life balance is strong

Cons – Career advancement is slow moving with few opportunities

Current Employee – been working at Medtronic full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – Great People to work with. Flexible hours

Cons – Constant Restructuring and Layoffs, Corporate Politics, Creat

Advice to Senior Management – Create a structure and stick with it.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Medtronic full-time for more than a year

Pros – - Lots of opportunity to work cross-functionally
- Annual Science and Technology conference is a lot of fun
- Competitive salary & benefits
- Cool technologies
- Easy to see direct impact of work on patient health

Cons – - Sadly untrustworthy
- Was made promises about promotion and given long-term incentive, then laid off instead
- Does a poor job of integrating their acquisitions and providing them resources, then blames them when they under-perform.
- currently no performance based incentives. Everyone gets 2% regardless of how hard you work

Advice to Senior Management – Why is it that when sales fails to hit artificially high targets, R&D gets affected? Where's the accountability? Provide better training for the reps so they can do the job better. The management between CEO and local Sr. Dir needs a shake up. They are constantly making near-sighted business decisions.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Medtronic full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Excellent salary and benefits for employees

Cons – constant change and Poor leadership

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Medtronic full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – Good benefits, medical insurance, bonuses, vacations.

Cons – Very big corporate company. One person is very small part comparing to company, can get lost very easily between all people.

Advice to Senior Management – Pay more attantion to each person.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Medtronic full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Medtronic does offer good benefits. I have more con's than pros when it comes to Medtronic. Medtronic does offer a good training program.

Cons – Hard to move around Medtronic. Balancing work and home life is very difficult because of the long hours. To many job layoffs. When that happens the work doesn't go away, it puts a strain on the employee that are left behind.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Medtronic full-time for more than a year

Pros – Good pay and benefits (even though they seem to be decreasing). The working environment decently laid back - some are overloaded and working at a frantic pace, while others are the polar opposite.

Cons – Too much bureaucracy. Very heavy on management. Receiving credit for rectifying major problems or being an integral part of a "fire fighting" team more often than not leads nowhere. The company seems to be more interested in hiring engineers to do technician work than having a defined role.

Advice to Senior Management – Everyone has their specified role - so hire for that type of work. Give people the credit they deserve and promote, promote, promote!

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Medtronic as an intern for less than a year

Pros – Stable environment, decent perks, and good pay.

Cons – The community was a bit older than expected. Lacks a youthful influence.

Advice to Senior Management – none