St. Jude Medical Reviews

Pros

Excellent place to work; very lean environment; great ability to get things accomplished; culture has significantly improved

Cons

Previous turnover, some members of the division mgt team may not be up for the requirements of the job

Advice to Senior Management

Keep supporting the business with great talent and focus on quality and key initiatives

Pros

Clinical knowledge and engineering are the strong points of this company.

Cons

Large organization. Tough to make the switch to other areas within the company.

Advice to Senior Management

Gain business by investing in your employees. Not just by hiring the competition.

Pros

pleasent work enviorment to be in

Cons

lack of decision making on the upper mangement

Advice to Senior Management

decsions need to be made quicker

Pros

Good benefits and great potential

Cons

Decision making is way too high up the chain.

Advice to Senior Management

Find a way to drive decision making down so decisions can be made by relevant people who understand the impact.

Pros

Pay is good. Job is simple and work life balance is great. One of the most flexible and friendly to family jobs out there.

Cons

Job lacks technical challenge. Management is incompetent from the highest levels to the lowest. Don't expect to advance in IT because there is no where to go. Everybody works in a silo. Teamwork is discouraged at best.

Advice to Senior Management

Hire managers that have experience working not only as managers of IT, but on the front lines. People that have no technical skill have no place managing highly skilled professionals.

Pros

Pay and benefits are somewhat better than industrial average. That's about it!

Cons

Very immature group of upper level management personnel. Departmental vps and directors are non-expertise promotors since they were promoted in the same way. Trying figure out why/how? Politics is all that matters.

Advice to Senior Management

Let the subject matter professionals do the work, establish systematic and fair career growth and reward system, stop messing up with the management system of the commpanies acquired, and stop mixing small and not so marketable technologies to fool around the investors.

Pros

St. Jude Medical manufactures a great product that used throughout the world.

Cons

Company can potentially be great, however there needs to be significant changes in leadership.

Pros

It used to be the people, but many are now gone. The insurance is good.

Cons

The majority of upper mgmt is clueless. My experience (in my department) has been that they prefer "good talkers" over hard workers. Eventually, all of the hard workers will go elsewhere and they will just be left with a bunch of non-producing individuals sitting around a conference table, trying to out smooth talk each other. It's actually very sad to see how much it has changed over the past several years, in my division, anyway (can't speak for the other product divisions).

Pros

feels like making good products for patients; cool patient/employee appreciation week. Do a good job communicating between different levels of workforce.

Cons

Standard management struggles; normal tug of war between money and employee respect. Many very smart people lack management skills, and it'd be advisable to give them basic management training.

Advice to Senior Management

Quality, Employees, Money, Respect, Good Management; by focusing on the first two and making them critical building blocks in the company will naturally lead to the latter three. All of these together lead to very happy shareholders.

Pros

St. Jude offers a potentially great array of products, however, with recent management turnover the new people do not know what to do.

Cons

The senior management needs to better communicate what the mission or company should be. Everyone works in a silo or a cloud. St. Jude does not promote from within and expects the older employees to train the newer employees, but the newer employees think they know it all.

Advice to Senior Management

Better communication!! Successful companies acknowledge people as one of their higher valued resources. However, St. Jude acts like everyone is replaceable and continues to place band aides on big issues instead of tackling them.