Medtronic Employer Reviews

Overall a great company to work for due to our important mission. We provide excellent life-saving and restorative products and service to patients and hospitals.

Great Place to work, Managment ladder is not ideal. I have had a great deal of training and have grown professionaly as a result.

workign in this company gives you a good reason which is helping people, but the management is not very well.

MECC had a lot of great people to working on many products. Supporting operations allowed me to interact with quality, reliability, development and supply chain.

Excellent experience, good co-workers is a challenging environment with good opportunities to learn.

The Inside Sales office in San Antonio is basically a glorified call center. On the upside you learn the sales end of the Medical Technology industry on the business to consumer spectrum.

The inside sales positions are a composite of two different roles. The Diabetic Therapy Consultant which initiates contact with diabetic patients that either have – more... never utilized insulin pump therapy, or are existing insulin pump patients and are now eligible for replacement. This position entails being on the phone with patients for 3+ hours per day discussing everything from health issues, to health insurance information. This role also communicates directly with the field team throughout the day to arrange new patient referrals.

The other role which is lower in the organization hierarchy is the Diabetic Therapy Associate. This role receives the leads, which have been opened by the Diabetic Therapy Consultant and then carries the order through to closure. Diabetic Therapy Associates send prescriptions to physicians, work with insurance companies to gain compensation for the orders, and then arrange the financials with the patients. The final stage of the order entails shipping the patients their medical devices.

What an employee will notice right away is that while this company's surface mission is to "change lives", the inside corporate culture could not be farther from the truth. Patients are numbers to this company. They are nothing more than customers. Both roles are highly micromanaged by several layers of management. There are several arbitrary performance metrics that employees are evaluated on throughout the day, month and quarter. Several times per day employees are given quota after quota after quota. That's not to say that one should be so naive to forget that this company is a business, but at the same time, it becomes obvious after working there for a short while that there is clear disconnect between corporate culture and the company's external mission/brand. – less

Great opportunity to achieve monetary gain, but stagnant in regards to personal/professional advancement (People Management)

Medtronic is a global company, so you really have to be ok with working with several different groups of people from around the world. That can include early morning or late night conference calls with Switzerland or India, but will also mean working on multi-cultural teams in the office. This is not a bad thing, but can be hard to handle for some employees.

Unfortunately, – more... Medtronic has begun to pursue several cost saving "opportunities" at the expense of employee morale, including outsourcing several roles. – less

Benefits are generous. Stability is not a for sure thing, lay offs year after year.

Company provided various training ranging from eLearning and classroom training; enjoy working with engineers;Too much time spent on creating processes that limits the creativity

A typical day at work was very efficient, work was always done on time and there was no sense of career pressure. It was a very friendly environment.

Management sometimes fail their employees. Great Benefits and compensation

Medtronic Diabetes is currently going through major expansion and restricting so it has resulted in many changes in the employment area as jobs are eliminated to transferred to other physical locations. Overall the company is good. Benefits are good. I was an insurance collector so had to follow up on all unpaid or underpaid insurance claims, obtain – more... necessary documentation from patients or physicians, interact with insurance reps. – less

Excellent place to work. Really interesting to manufacture their product!!!

The mission and core valvues are what attracted me to Medtronic. The projects are exciting because they impact peoples lives.

I worked for Medtronic for 26 years. I loved going to work there,It was a great place to work. I learned how to be good employee, to be on time ,to communicate with other employees. Management was great .My cooworkers were great to work with,we all strived to get the best product out because we new that this product was going into someones body and – more... it had to work to keep them alive.There was no hard part of the job.The most enjoyable part of the job is when we had we had community day and we got to meet the people that had our products in them,and how they were so greatful for our products that were keeping them alive – less

I have a diverse background, with 25+ years in the IT field, working across a variety of industries (Retail, Financial Services, Manufacturing, Life Sciences/Medical Device, Consulting…). I provide leadership and oversight for multiple projects, leading teams through the delivery of technology solutions from vision to implementation utilizing standard – more... methodologies. A significant percentage of focus is serving as a liaison between the technology and business functions, to identify and define opportunities where the prudent use of technology will advance the strategic goals and objectives of the business. – less

Medtronic is a global company with excellent benefits. However, if you're looking for a career, this may not be the place to seek out such. Nevertheless, if you simply need a job after retirement, first time employment or steady income due to the economy, this is a wonderful place to work!

Leadership and organizational management seriously need to – more... be analyzed! – less

Medtronic is a mission driven company and is proud of its life-saving products. People are high caliber. Management decisions tend to be consensus driven. Strong customer relationship building and service quality. High standard on product quality.

Currently the company is making many structural and management changes in order to adapt to the changing – more... market places. Lots of business model innovation work are underway. – less

It values the employees an offeres good benefits. it strives to uphold the company mission of "benefiting human welfare" and high ethical values.