Boston Scientific reviews

4.1

82% would recommend to a friend

(5,047 total reviews)
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Michael F. Mahoney

91% approve of CEO

76% positive business outlook

Boston Scientific has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 5,047 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Boston Scientific employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.7 stars).

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3.0
Sep 27, 2008

Examine your options carefully

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Pros

The employees are very open to working with each other to get the job done. We all realize the importance of the work we are doing, and are reminded of that when the company brings in patients who are living their lives because of our devices. The face to face time with the patients provides a great incentive. I have yet to encounter problems when asking for vacation time or emergency leave. Many of the employees will work harder to pick up the slack so when a person returns, there is not a large amount of work sitting at their desk.

Cons

Management scares me. I don't know if it is the lack of communication or my perception of such. Many times, I don't hear about meetings until right before or after they passed. And some of these meetings are on topics that impact employees directly. I also don't see management working to promote employees internally, or when they do, they don't consider performance evaluations. I feel that leadership is not always there, nor a commitment to matching deadlines. I have seen too many projects that have slipped behind up to another 50% of their scheduled time. Other projects have been pushed waaaay too early and creates problems for people downstream to correct.

2.0
Sep 16, 2008
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Pros

The best reasons to work for Boston Scientific are to meet people in the industry. Also the benefits are good compared to other companies in terms of health insurance, eye, dental, and 401-k. The salary and bonus compensation is adequate or a bit below average.

Cons

The biggest downsides are the incompetencies of the Directors, especially the Directors of Manufacturing Engineering and so forth. People are promoted to Director positions, not because they are good managers, but because they know other people. The management style is classic manage by intimidation, along with little to know management downward. The Directors manage upward only. There is little to no development of people and the culture is very cut throat, very tense and very chaotic. Attention to Quality is poor and turn over is extremely high in key areas.

2.0
Sep 16, 2008
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Pros

The benefit package is wonderful. Learn many new techaniques. Be able to interact with other departmetns to learn from your coworkers.

Cons

it is very difficult to know how to advance in your career. Compensatin is very difficult.

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