Principal Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Medtronic with 2.8 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 40% positive. To compare, the company-average is 64.3% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Principal Engineer roles take an average of 57 days to get hired, when considering 5 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Medtronic overall takes an average of 34 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Medtronic as a Principal Engineer according to 5 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 29%
Phone interview: 29%
Group panel interview: 14%
Drug test: 14%
Presentation: 7%
Personality test: 7%
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I applied online. The process took 4 months. I interviewed at Medtronic (Mounds View, MN) in Jul 2024
Interview
3 months after initial interview role was switched to a more junior position, asked if I'd still loke to interview for the position. the role was then reposted and I was ghosted.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Medtronic (Littleton, MA) in Sep 2022
Interview
After an initial phone screen I was invited to interview on-site with their team. For the interview I was asked to prepare a presentation and then present during the interview to about 6 attendees. The presentation guidelines were open-ended so I covered most of the applications throughout my career. This part was not difficult, but the formality of how they wanted questions answered according to STAR method was distracting. Specifically, they asked answers to be structured as Situation, Task, Action, and Result.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Describe a situation where you disagreed with management decision and what you did about it.
I applied online. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Medtronic
Interview
Spent 5 hours interviewing with 11 different people in surgical robotics. After sending out a thank you note to all interviewers, I did not hear back from anyone. Multiple follow-ups and 2 months later, I finally heard back with a generic email template that they decided to move forward with other candidates. I was shocked with the disrespect and disregard shown towards my time.