St. Jude Medical Employee Reviews about "st jude medical"

Pros

St. Jude Medical is a place where you'll often hear, "Let's get 'er done." People pull together to do the right thing on a constant basis. There is an underlying sense of fierce employee pride. They know their work helps people live better lives. I would often hear people describe SJM as the "smallest large company in the world," when they described how the company thought and operated. It had kept the small company mentality intact, even as it expanded globally.

Cons

Like many companies, SJM is facing significant marketplace contraction. The former hub and spoke organizational structure that placed tremendous emphasis on the divisions, with little to no visible leadership from Corporate, is breaking down. Painfully. While this is a step in the right direction, it will take several years for the company to reshape its identity as a cohesive entity.

Pros

Fun people to work with in the software department at Sylmar, lots of people try to organize groups to go hiking and such. Lots of time to work on a pet project to improve your skill sets. You'll get introduced to heavy processes that will give you insight on why they are there, and insight on why they should be dropped. While working at St Jude Medical I received lots of interviews from tech companies (Apple, Google, Linkedin, Twitter). Ended up joining one of them. Few of my coworkers did too.

Cons

Sometimes you get so bored doing nothing. I ended up working 4-6 hours (w/2 hour lunches) with coworkers. Cardiac rhythm management division (or IESD - whatever they call it now) has been halting on projects thus lack of career growth and increased layoffs. I hear the severance package is very accomodating. Everything software related in that department is solely in maintenance mode. Most of the money is now going towards nuero modulation in plano, texas. From my initial impression the engineers there are highly questionable in talent, and I would not trust them to develop solid software. You know something is amiss when they overdesign and use jargon to impress people.

Pros

My highest motivation is job satisfaction. St. Jude Medical has a dedicated, highly educated, and highly productive staff. The company has a variety of highly successful products. The company has a culture that encourages helpfulness among employees.

Cons

St. Jude Medical doesn't have some of the on-site amenities that larger companies have, like a cash machine, or a barber, or shoe shine, or massages. There are no employee clubs. The company does not own a golf course or resort. At my last job I had all these, as well as underground parking and a large window office. However, even though I have none of those amenities, I enjoy my job at St. Jude Medical much more than I did at the large company.

Pros

St. Jude medical can be a plesent place to work, they have a employment apreachance week where the put up a big top ten in the parking lot, and have verious active throught the week, they give nice chrismas gives to all salary emplyees, and propet sharing in from of rasies each year.

Cons

St. Jude is fast pace company, and a demanding company, management doesn’t always listen to their employee. They also have a tendency to move management around in and out of the company. They also have a habit of every few years of laying off employee with higher salary, so its nice that they give raises, but then lay you off when you start making to much. St. Jude has open three oversea office and has start move woke off shore.

Pros

Organizationally and across most divisions, they are growing; they design, develop, and sell a product that saves lives. They are probably better positioned in terms of being more nimble and strategic than Medtronic or Boston Scientific. The employees are hard working and well intentioned

Cons

Most of the organization was formed through acquisition; as a result silos exist both within divisions and across the organization as a whole. St. Jude Medical is essentially a holding company for about four different product lines (otherwise know as divisions). There is not a clear espirt de corps or unifying vision/mission for the entire organization. Leaders are typically subject matter experts with a leadership title; the leaders really don't lead they manage. As a field, medical device could be severely affected if there is a government tax issued on medical device products.

Pros

Ultra lean teams mean that there can be a lot of opportunity to take on significant responsibilities/projects to make an impact. Generally, I didn't see a lot of micromanaging and there aren't a lot of layers to work through. Pay and benefits are good.

Cons

The culture is one of the most bizarre I've encountered and at times it is very unprofessional. Depends on where you are but avoid the Austin office and positions where you will need to work closely with individuals there ... a lot of aggressive and downright odd personalities that make work life unpleasant. At this writing, avoid marketing and academic affairs at all costs. It's a very negative environment with non-supportive, non-engaged and sometimes bizarre leaders. If you enjoy working in a collaborative environment with others who are professional, strategic and engage in critical thinking, you'd be wise to look elsewhere. I think you'll be unhappy at St. Jude Medical.

Pros

I enjoyed working at St. Jude Medical (U.S. Sales Division). I was promoted twice in five years. I was given autonomy. I had good working relationships with customers and peers.

Cons

I did not learn much at St. Jude Medical. I felt as though I just applied what I had learned at my former company (Guidant). The most significant downside to working for St. Jude -- at least the Sales Division -- is that you can be laid-off at any moment, independent of the quality of your work. Mike Rousseau makes sweeping decisions that negatively impact peoples' lives with little thought or reason (he's a Decider who decides "with his gut".

Pros

At St. Jude Medical under our manager in the supply chain department, we were trusted to do our job and carry out our daily tasks and responsibilities. There was kniw micro-management in our departnent.

Cons

Upper managenent which was in an entirely different location did not always give us the full support we needed when making major changes in policies.