Complete and Utter Disconnect - Principal Software Engineer Medtronic Employee Review

2.0
8 Feb 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Pay and benefits are pretty good - The mission is something many people can get behind

Cons

- Upper management has absolutely ZERO understanding of how to effectively develop software. - Software department is hemorrhaging money because of bad practices. - Culture is INSANELY difficult to change, as many middle and upper management leaders stick their heads in the sand. - Any innovative idea is shot down in favor of just generating more tech debt and slapping new features on some old monolithic architecture that's incredibly outdated. - The only concept of innovation or architecture improvements is to shove badly designed applications into containers and stick them in Kubernetes.

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5.0
8 Jun 2026
Recommend
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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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