Worst Large Medical Device Company
Pros
Some decent coworkers. Name is well recognized among the healthcare community and easily gets you into hospitals. Relatively easy to get products added to the hospital GPO's.
Cons
All internal organizational health surveys point to too many layers of terrible middle & upper management all the way up to the current CEO, Geoff Martha who is incredibly overpaid given the recent performance of the company. The CEO is also a hypocrite as there is no diversity at the highest levels of management. Check it out, he says one thing or posts on LinkedIn about diversity but where is that diversity at the highest levels off the company Geoff? It's sad, Earl Bakken would be rolling over in his grave if he knew the current state of the company he founded and how it's currently being managed and operated. If you are a talented Sales Rep with any semblance of integrity, go work for any other big medical device company other than Medtronic. Field Sales Reps are just a number there that management could care less about. The company currently has no integrity or ethics whatsoever. Be aware how ironclad the Medtronic Employee Contract/Agreement is and there's no way to understand exactly what it means unless you're a highly experienced Attorney. The clauses were written by the shrewdest Lawyers on the planet to allow Medtronic to do whatever it wants to do at the detriment of the employees as well as patient safety. All lawsuits have to be brought in the State of Minnesota where Medtronic has influence over elected officials like the Judges as the company is one of the largest employers in the state. This allows Medtronic to aggressively launch & commercialize human-use implantable products that may have only been tested in animal models, so the first patients to receive the device are essentially guinea pigs in the post-market approval clinical studies of the product. The only repercussions Medtronic gets are if there are enough complaints about a device, and it's harmed enough people, then they are obligated to issue a recall. The core company tenet, "Voice Your Concern" is an absolute joke. If you are bold enough to maintain your personal integrity and voice a concern regarding the safety of a device based upon concerns & complaints you've received from Doctor's in the field, then the company will certainly retaliate and figure out how to terminate you and because of the clauses in the Employee Agreement, the employee has no legal recourse whatsoever. It should be illegal what their Lawyers have concocted in the Employee Agreement. So Field Sales employees are essentially robot captives to Medtronic and the people who work there know the general unspoken rule of thumbs to stay employed at Medtronic are, keep your head down, keep your mouth shut, and don't dare rock the boat because if you do, your days of employment there are extremely limited. The way the Employee Agreement is written should be illegal but no one can work there without signing it so please know if you do, Medtronic has you over the barrel and going to work for Medtronic in Field Sales means you're working under a culture of fear, and you're selling you're personal ethics and integrity to a gigantic global corporate devil who values driving revenue and appeasing it's shareholders more than patient safety so the CEO can continue awarding himself with ridiculously undeserved compensation incentive packages. Perfect example of corporate greed being expertly executed in the capitalistic machine that's completely obliterated quality & ethical healthcare in the United States.
