Company does not value employee professional growth. - Software Engineer Intuitive Employee Review

1.0
Jul 3, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The product that the company produces is amazing, as well as, the culture and people who surround you.

Cons

Management doesn’t not care about the professional goals of the employees. Promotions and moving up the ladder are not at all something that is freely talked about when managers and their direct reports. Asking for help and support on obtaining your goals as an employee goes nowhere and you’re left to fend for yourself. A common tactic is to provide you ridiculous reasons as to why you didn’t meet the criteria for a promotion because giving you the title or position you deserve does not benefit the company at all. Stay away from intuitive surgical if you care at all about career advancement. You will only suffer frustration and headaches being told “better luck next year” from your manager.

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5.0
May 4, 2026
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Pros

Able to provide care and value to patients all the way through - and on 40 hours a week, for real, with a culture that healthily jobs out a lot of stress. Everyone I work with is competent and glad to be here.

Cons

The above is not true for every corner of the company, and some places have gotten harder to exist in. Hours can run long in some places.

3.0
May 28, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The da Vinci is a powerful robotics platform and still unmatched by just about everything else in the market. With the product that great comes the experience and access to work with healthcare professionals and hospital systems at a level that is extremely valuable for a long career Medical Device. Also, the value you provide in the technical experience, the training pathway and the Surgeon learning curve to autonomy and the feeling of growing production is great when all the pieces fall into place.

Cons

If you're in an area that has good runway and they just need hands on deck with a supportive manager it's pretty straightforward career progression. However, there's a lot of territories that have been sold into a corner of sorts and because of the specific targets that absolutely need to be sold the management has gotten extremely picky and will specifically target reps from orgs such as JnJ, Applied and Medtronic to come in and flip the remaining surgeons that they've already been selling to.

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