Resting on Long Ago Laurels - Principal Engineer Medtronic Employee Review

2.0
17 Dec 2009
Recommend
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Pros

Good work ethics, decent salaries and overall good business stablity, but the mainstay business has become commoditized with single digit growth only. Great benefits. Good work/life balance. Still, really good people to work with on the front lines.

Cons

Lack of emphasis on training and cetification of employees' skills. No management support for career or project success. Can't do what you do best. Can't grow. Slow bureaucratic and reactionary. Outsourcing seen as a growing trend demoralizing those left. Those left are subjected to GE style "rank and yank" with quotas set for the "yank" category. Middle management embodies "inpenetrable clay layer" to bottom-up ideas and initiatives.

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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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