Medtronic reviews

Management has created an extremely toxic culture. The Quality organization is especially terrible. Managers throw their employees under the bus constantly and badmouth them to other employees. They also treat contractors as sub-human. The level of unprofessionalism is astounding - I don’t know how some of these managers and directors still have their jobs. They don’t even try to hide the sexism and favoritism. Work/life balance is terrible. My management jumped all over us for not working 10+ hour days consistently. There is also a complete lack of recognition for the work unless you are a “favorite” working on a pet project. We were told to be proud of what we’ve done for patients over the last year; that’s nice to be helping patients, but it doesn’t translate to any recognition for all the hours including nights and weekends we poured into our projects. There also isn’t a lot of room for true professional development. The opportunities for travel or training for the individual contributor employees are few and far between. It’s honestly not good for a person’s health to choose to work at this facility. I know multiple employees who are in essence “stuck” because they are on work visas and they are absolutely miserable.

Lots of pressure to "the street" means too much focus on quarter-to-quarter planning and decisioning. Becoming far more lean than ever before people resourcing-wise which is wearing people out. Culture used to be more familial and better balance, people are stressed due to workloads so much more in and out vs team building, happy hours, etc. Benefits have really contracted and employee cost (vs employer) have really gone up in recent years (though I know some of that is due to US tax structure than just MDT wants to hose their employees). Some roles, esp in people leadership demand really long hours. It feels very big these days- more like a holding company- linked by a very strong unifying mission but otherwise quite silo'd still. Not quick to change/accept change, lots of layers and consensus-driven decision making.