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?"