It was very exciting at first, then as the years passed; the layoffs began to happen every year. - Manufacturing Associate Medtronic Employee Review

The supervisors lack management skills necessary to be professional toward the associates. They may have a degree, but they lacked the people skills to interact with a professional behavior with subordinates. Also, the high quotas that led to vendor parts shortages. The passing of questionable product by engineers that didn't want a black mark on their reports to upper management. Quantity was pushed rather than quality toward the end of my eight year employment at Medtronic. I was saddened by Medtronics lack of care for quality for a product that was to be implanted into a human being that would depend upon it to continue living.