Great co-workers, poor management - Mechanical Engineer Medtronic Employee Review

3.0
6 Mar 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great co-workers (60% are awesome, 30% average, 10% are terrible) Challenging environment Good place to get hands on experience with new skills

Cons

60+ hours/week is a regular expectation Poor salary compared to other employers Directors and management will literally yell and berate people they do not like rather than solve the problem Too much fire-fighting and little long-term prevention of problems Low employee morale

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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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