Not All Sites Are Created Equal - Senior Manufacturing Engineer Medtronic Employee Review

1.0
Oct 24, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

-Lots of internal training to develop expertise -Some of the people were great -Good ESPP and Health Benefits -Competitive PTO package

Cons

-Absolutely no work-life balance. Get ready to live for the job. -Management thinks each person carrying 10-15+ projects simultaneously is normal and sustainable. -No interest in hiring full time employees; most positions are 1-2yr contractors which creates knowledge gaps and time wasted on onboarding instead of fixing actual issues. -Many managers have no formal management training and it shows. -Lots of equipment is from the mid-80's and there is no interest in getting state of the art equipment. Much of the job was patching together obsolete equipment with less obsolete equipment because it's cheaper. -No loyalty to their employees. Lay-offs happened even to people who had 25-30+ years of tenure with the organization.

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5.0
Jun 8, 2026
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Pros

The best company I’ve ever worked for.

Cons

Really can’t think of many. It’s heavily matrixed but that’s to be expected.

3.0
Jun 24, 2026
Recommend
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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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