Disorganized at non-core business units even at Headquarters - Business Systems Analyst Medtronic Employee Review

2.0
29 Sept 2019
Recommend
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Pros

1. Company in general seems nice and has a rich culture and descent global recognition. 2. Headquarter Mounds View cafeteria food quality is good.

Cons

1. Disorganized at non-core business units, i.e. Global IT Services. I would not trust to purchase our own product if our product business line was operating the same ways as the Global IT service management team operated. 2. Very bureaucratic, the incentives of the entire IT service data-driven initiative was "get-the-number" out to the highest level manager instead of quality, accuracy and improvement. The lower level analysts eventually bear the consequences of the poor-quality outcomes direct managers strongly demanded. 3. No training, it's "throw you under the bus" style starting at day 1. 4. At some peripheral departments, such as IT Global Service, it's almost 0 quality result driven and more like 90 percent management-authoritarian driven and people are working to comply what higher managers demand every day for promotion, instead of functioning around the actual customer-satisfactory outcome.

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5.0
8 Jun 2026
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Pros

The best company I’ve ever worked for.

Cons

Really can’t think of many. It’s heavily matrixed but that’s to be expected.

3.0
24 Jun 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Generous, old-school benefits. Almost twice the PTO as other places I've worked, excellent healthcare, 401K matching, etc. Many high-quality colleagues and a generally mellow, polite business culture.

Cons

Multiple competing bureaucracies, internal consultancies, a computer-illiterate 'stakeholder' class with permission to disrupt anything, and perverse incentives driving waste.

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