Pros
The employees and leadership truly believe in the mission (to put patients first) and high ethics. Pay is pretty good, solid benefits package. Lots of opportunities to advance/grow. CEO is super smart and future thinking. ExCom members overall are very smart, good talent mindset, high ethics people. Cool technologies/products, very rewarding. Most roles fairly flexible to work from home as needed and/or get away to make your kids' event and make up hours later. Fairly inclusive culture- maybe not quite best in class (ahem- more than a couple women & ethnically diverse in leadership) but definitely better than other organizations, esp in med tech, and iI think they are genuinely trying. Lots of REALLY smart, hard working, high ethics people. High innovation mindset. Global- opportunities to see the world with Medtronic. Bigger offices have nice campuses, with cafeterias, gyms, daycare, etc.
Cons
Lots of pressure to "the street" means too much focus on quarter-to-quarter planning and decisioning. Becoming far more lean than ever before people resourcing-wise which is wearing people out. Culture used to be more familial and better balance, people are stressed due to workloads so much more in and out vs team building, happy hours, etc. Benefits have really contracted and employee cost (vs employer) have really gone up in recent years (though I know some of that is due to US tax structure than just MDT wants to hose their employees). Some roles, esp in people leadership demand really long hours. It feels very big these days- more like a holding company- linked by a very strong unifying mission but otherwise quite silo'd still. Not quick to change/accept change, lots of layers and consensus-driven decision making.