Is Cook Medical Inc a good company to work for?

Cook Medical Inc has an overall rating of 3.5 out of 5, based on over 1,148 reviews left anonymously by employees. This rating has been stable over the past 12 months. 66% of employees would recommend working at Cook Medical Inc to a friend and 48% have a positive outlook for the business. The best reviews about Cook Medical Inc have been left by employees working as Intern , Clinical Specialist and Sales Representative .

Does Cook Medical Inc pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, Cook Medical Inc employees rate their compensation and benefits as 3.4 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at Cook Medical Inc. This rating has improved by 1% over the last 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at Cook Medical Inc?

66% of Cook Medical Inc employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated Cook Medical Inc 3.9 out of 5 for work life balance, 3.6 for culture and values and 3.0 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Cook Medical Inc?

District Manager (40) , Production Assembler (30) , Engineer (29) , Validation Engineer (21) , Quality Engineer (20) , Assembler (17) , Clinical Specialist (17) , Intern (17) , Sales Representative (16) , District Sales Manager (13) , Customer Service Representative (12) , R&D Engineer (12) , Regulatory Affairs Specialist (11) , Product Manager (9) , Sales (9)

What are the pros of working at Cook Medical Inc according to real employee reviews?

"Fringe benefits are good and cost less than average" ((in 95 reviews)); "Good people to work with" ((in 93 reviews)); "good work life balance most of the time" ((in 46 reviews)); "Good work environment" ((in 20 reviews)); ""Everyone was nice."" ((in 19 reviews))

What are the cons of working at Cook Medical Inc according to real employee reviews?

"Low salary and not challenging" ((in 34 reviews)); "lack of leadership" ((in 18 reviews)); "Good employees leave because of bad managers and complain about them but no one cares." ((in 15 reviews)); "Upper management is clueless as to what happens on the production floor" ((in 14 reviews)); "Organization and communication was terrible during FDA validation." ((in 13 reviews))

What are employees saying about Cook Medical Inc layoffs in 2026?

Explore Glassdoor’s employee reviews to understand what current and former employees are saying about Cook Medical Inc layoffs and their outlook for job security at Cook Medical Inc in 2026.

What Cook Medical Inc locations have received the highest employee ratings?

West Lafayette , Pittsburgh , Indianapolis , Spencer , New York , Dallas , Bloomington

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Cook Medical Inc reviews

3.5

66% would recommend to a friend

(950 total reviews)

Pete Yonkman

58% approve of CEO

48% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

3.9

Work/Life balance

3.6

Culture & values

3.6

Diversity & inclusion

3.4

Compensation and benefits

3.0

Senior management

3.0

Career opportunities

Cook Medical Inc has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 950 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Cook Medical Inc employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.5 stars).

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Reviews by job title

950 reviews

4.0

Nov 8, 2011

Cutting-edge, Innovative Company that puts Patient Care First

Product development engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

COOK has a great culture within the company that binds and motivates an individual whether they be in Senior Management or on the assembly line to one another and to the patient for whom they make quality products. Opportunity is given to those who ask for it and consistency in success is rewarded well. Quality and loyalty is high-stressed in this company, and they practice what they preach.

Cons

COOK pays about average as far as salaries go, they say it evens out with the good benefits that they provide (this is true they provide very good benefits), but unfortunately their salary offers are not as high as their competitors and that is probably the reason why they have a problem with employee retention.

2.0

Apr 24, 2011

Highly inefficient

Engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Cook Medical, Inc. is a large organization with products in a wide range of clinical fields. The vast majority of people are nice and Cook Medical, Inc. has never had a single layoff since its foundation. It is also rumored that no one in Engineering has been fired before.

Cons

Cook Medical, Inc. is not one of the places you will go for cutting edge technology and intellectuals. Over 90% of the Engineers obtained their degrees from the mid-west area and there are no graduates from top tier universities. Moreover, there is a lot of gossip and politics between those who grew up in southern Indiana and those who didn't. As you might expect, promotions are not based on skill or engineering expertise, but rather on seniority and how much you could brown-nose your Engineering team-leader. (Your team-leader is not your boss, but they do report updates to your direct manager.) Everything is also highly unorganized, beginning with the fact that most product managers don't know anything about the basic functional requirements of a project. There is no formal pathway between going from early feasibility run to a design concept freeze, and once a design concept freeze is reached, there is no proper training of how to incorporate process validations and what requirements are required by Quality Engineering. It is not uncommon for new engineers to wonder: "Why is this company not losing any money?"

5.0

Jan 18, 2011

very pleasant working environment

Anonymous employee

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

good benefit and good environment

Cons

the only thing is location is in bloomington

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Jobs at Cook Medical Inc

Custodian (Part-Time)

Overnight Hospitality Clerk

Administrative Intern