Waste of Good Talent and Passion - Senior Engineer Medtronic Employee Review

1.0
Mar 22, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

1. A lot of coworkers are talented and genuinely passionate about what they do. 2. Decent benefits.

Cons

1. Toxic, bureaucratic and political environment make it impossible and painful to get anything done. Nobody takes any accountability, so nothing ever gets done or changes. As others have said here, bullies remain in positions of power, even after multiple reports to management and HR. 2. Horribly incompetent senior leaders that make one short-sighted decision after another, which results in constantly-shifting priorities. Meanwhile, the folks on the ground have to change gears every few months to follow a new strategy and still have to clean up the resulting messes from prior bad decisions. 3. Benefits are decent, but monetary compensation is awful, especially when folks work overtime so often. 4. Senior leaders attempt to solve problems by just throwing more money or low-quality contractors at them, instead of getting to the root issues. This only creates more problems down the road for the full-time employees.

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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
Jun 24, 2026
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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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