What is the hiring process like at Medtronic?

- Autonomy and high-impact projects assigned - Ability to explore company during internship - Welcoming of interns/strong internship program - Provided housing

- Slower HR and overall hiring process - Difficult to intern in the future with other groups across the company

Overall solid benefits, good work-life balance, and really generally smart, likable people to work with on a day to day basis. Lots of resources available for projects in general, and lots of people with deep expertise across many different functional groups. Overall feel good about the products that I work on and the mission is important to employees. DE&I initiatives are okay, although sometimes it can feel like a check the box activity for the company. Pay is solid, although raises and/or bonuses seem to get worse and worse every year.

Senior leadership has lost a significant amount of my confidence in the last few years (not surprisingly, right around that time that Geoff Martha was announced new CEO...). Significant and reoccurring reorgs, significant cuts in spending, layoffs every year, big push for return to office blanket across all functional groups, and benefits are slowly being taken away without new ones being added (the last casualty was summer hours). Travel restrictions, constant hiring freezes, performance reviews based on monetary metrics, huge focus on cost-down and increasing margin to a point that it feels like it is stifling innovation. While I understand the pandemic hit Med Tech hard, Medtronic cannot use that as an excuse anymore when there are several other Med Tech companies of similar sizes/product types that are executing better (and their financial statements show). With Karen Parkhill (CFO) leaving to HP, that just raises another huge red flag in my eyes. There are also some general negatives that come with the territory of working in large corporate Med Tech (very regulated, can feel slow moving, bureaucracy) but those are not necessarily unique to Medtronic.

Improving patients lives, good place to learn when you’re early in your career

Poor leadership, low pay, they look at you as a number, too focused DEI vs hiring the best talent

Great location, amazing intern programs and the building seems fairly new.

The interview process was extensive, involving multiple rounds that felt somewhat excessive. Upon joining the team, I was trained by an individual whose approach lacked professionalism and consistency. Their behavior was often unpredictable…supportive at times but dismissive or overly critical at others. Unfortunately, this dynamic created a challenging work environment, especially when interpersonal politics influenced team collaboration. Once conflicts arose, support from colleagues became limited, as many seemed hesitant to go against internal alliances. Did not stay long.

Easy interview process with hiring team

It can be hard to connect remotely

Good work life balance and good technology

Internal process is complicated and confusing sometimes

They allot of really great benefits

They have a long hiring process

Work life balance Tech HR Hiring process Challenging

Pay Management changes Remote . Z

Genuinely have met so many people from so many backgrounds You can find good mentors, you might have to try a bit more if your team doesnt have them

Too many useless people that cant get fired due to HR rules or whatever. Probably net $500k loss from the few useless people that I know. The bureaucracy can be felt so hard and it slows us down so incredibly much. Things have to be run by a gazillion people for it to get done and process improvements are rarely improvements and just waste time. Promotions are wack and lot of managers are either pushovers or excuse finders. They also need ICs who can lead projects yet refuse to promote them even though the management knows that the project will crumble without them. Certain teams have no vision for what growth in the role looks like so you just do monotonous work. There's so many simultaneous projects and we have hiring freeze for half of the year so we tend to be understaffed and people get burnt out (know it seems contradictory that it's easy and getting burnt out but it's true!) RTO is driving away more experienced folks because the office is in the middle of a city and their commutes would be affected the most

Following the recent layoffs in 2025 at Diabetes, there isn't much to recommend this place. I am looking for a new job, despite currently having one.

This place does not invest in employees. Managers often hire friends or prioritize hiring individuals with visas, allowing them to be overworked and underpaid. The last layoff resulted in the dismissal of many long-term employees, so a significant amount of work that no one knows how to do has been redistributed. The ratings this year were calibrated with input from directors and SVPs, not from managers. The only ratings that were four or above were those of friends of the directors or people they were concerned would leave after the recent round of layoffs. The nepotism in this place is absurd.