Engaging technologies, yet difficult to advance or move around. - Senior Project Engineer Medtronic Employee Review

4.0
23 May 2011
Recommend
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Pros

Corporate mission, products that enhance lives, good reputation, co-workers. Peers are supportive in helping address problems and sharing knowledge and experience. Flexible work hours.

Cons

Seeming "good ol' boy" mentality with middle management; difficult to navigate career growth via upward mobility or cross-transfer between business units . . . incongruent with what is preached by management. Some management seem very false/disingenuous in persona and in interaction with direct reports. HR is as useful as HS guidance counselors relative to career advice. Risk averse; innovation by acquisition. Cumbersome policies to drive objectives and product development.

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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
CEO approval
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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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