Large company with agile pockets - R&D Engineer Medtronic Employee Review

Great internal talent, always openings for internal candidates, good processes and training.

Big, sometimes political, can be difficult to advance without changing departments.

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.

Multiple competing bureaucracies, internal consultancies, a computer-illiterate 'stakeholder' class with permission to disrupt anything, and perverse incentives driving waste.