Medtronic reviews

Management is terrible and completely disconnected from what their employees actually do. Way too much overlapping upper management, No work life balance, Lots of forced overtime and forced weekends with no warning, (sales team was just told today that we are expected to work at least 8 hours a day every single day for the rest of the year with only 1 day off for xmas) commission structure is impossible to follow, people rarely hit the target commission payouts because the quotas are ridiculously inflated.

- Way under paid for the work. - A management team who doesn't understand the first thing about developing software or how to plan a project. - Gender and race are more important to the company than finding people that are able to to the required work. - Management spends all their time fighting and attempts to build empires at the expense of those doing the work, project schedules, and ultimately the customers. - Promotions are not based on merit but on filling quotas and ensuring that anyone attempting to do real engineering is not considered. - All software development is being outsourced without regard to quality, or meeting the basic standards required to release a medical device through the FDA. - Schedules are driven from the top without any knowledge or regard for the time it actually takes to complete any amount of work. - Health insurance is very expensive due to subsidizing members of the group plan. - Project management is not capable of planing a project, or understanding the most basic concepts for developing medical devices. - Engineering is discouraged it is better for your career to just say yes and agree to whatever management asks for. - Deadlines have no real importance, schedules are made by throwing a dart at a calendar, and when it comes time, nothing happens. - It took me 1.5 years to get the requirements for a promotion. When I tried talking with management about a promotion and prepared examples of how the criteria was met with examples, additional criteria was "made up" on the spot which is not actionable without any career improvement plan. - Matrix Organization - Took Medtronic Diabetes 15+ years to develop a "new" insulin pump. - Management manages projects with wilful negligence. Internal and external requirements are not met, and rather than writing deviations as required, management withholds information in the reports and tries to inundate those reviewing the documentation with so much info that they don't notice. - Third party vendors and arrangements. Be prepared to work for the people your company is paying to "help".