Smokescreen leadership at Littleton MA - Anonymous employee Medtronic Employee Review

2.0
2 Jan 2016
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Best product with a lot of potential. A good place as a starter job. You will get to learn a lot. You will find examples of the good and the bad. Try to work on projects with cross site collaboration.

Cons

Leadership does not value knowledge. Giant silos here. No cross team collaboration. Everyone is trying to save their jobs at the expense of doing the right thing for the product. Management takes feedback from the employees but does not act on them. There is only a smoke screen that they are acting on the feedback. Pleasing your boss is more important than doing the right thing. I have seen the culture deteriorate over the years. Growth only if you are friends with a few select people in the management. People having the power to take important decisions haven't taken any effort to learn about the product, but still try to micromanage.

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Cons

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3.0
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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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