MEDTRONIC SUCKS !!!

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Anonymous said:
MEDTRONIC IS AWESOME. AWESOME MONTHLY BONUSES. AWESOME PRODUCTS. AWESOME PEOPLE. AWESOME REPUTATION. BY THE WAY, I GOT THE JOB! AND I'VE MADE MORE IN FOUR MONTHS IN BONUS THEN I DID ALL YEAR AT PHARMA. YES, I TRANSFERRED FROM PHARMA TO MED. DEVICE. AND YES, I AM A MED DEVICE REP AND AM ON THIS BOARD. LOTS OF WORK. LOTS OF REWARD.
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and yes, I was a high school chearleader.
 




Anonymous said:
Please with your shit. We are fucked at Danek eh? I submit you are fucked everywhere else. Are you new to this industry or something? Lawsuits over copyright infringement are so common it's laughable. MSD makes so much money, they can pay off these punk companies with the profit from a couple of Procedures. Give me a break dumbass. Remember Axis and RTI problems? The reality of things is we have the best product line, the most options in every catagory and the best reps. Just go away jackass. You have embarrased yourself beyond belief with your comment.
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that is just the attitude that is gonna fuck you. best reps my nuts.
 




So I just wrapped up about a year at Medtronic Cardiovascular in Santa Rosa. I have worked for many companies in the past, this one is the most dressed up slime game I have ever seen. The management here is a joke. There is a VP who sits in a different building from the rest of her team, and the remaining Directors who report to her are a fucking joke. One is ok but the other two are not qualified to teach grade school let alone manage people. The managers are simply too many, several of whom were hyperpromoted because other people left. Explain to me why someone who cannot even communicate feedback properly to his employees is managing people. Usually people at the managerial level and above are there because they are capable of demonstrating some type of poise and people skills. These people are idiots. To make matters worse they take whatever you do and use it against you in your annual review. To top it all off, if they make mistakes along the way they try to wipe it off on their subordinates. Its a big shit sandwich any way you cut it. This company is NOT one of America's 100 Best to work for. It is one of America's 100 Worst. Don't join here even if you are offered, you will regret it.
 




Very well written and factual. If you had not stated that your experience was in Santa Rosa, I would have guessed it was in Jacksonville, FL, Fort Worth, TX, Memphis, TN, Goleta, CA or Minneapolis. I have been in all of those divisions and they are IDENTICAL to what you described. Clearly, MDT makes enough money to drag along losers and give them big titles.

I knew before I took the job at one of the locations mentioned above that it was a train wreck in slow motion, so I didn't have high expectations when I accepted the job. My expectations were extremely low and they still didn't meet them. I regret accepting it, but am glad I am OUT now.
 




The same can be said about any large publicly traded company.



Anonymous said:
Very well written and factual. If you had not stated that your experience was in Santa Rosa, I would have guessed it was in Jacksonville, FL, Fort Worth, TX, Memphis, TN, Goleta, CA or Minneapolis. I have been in all of those divisions and they are IDENTICAL to what you described. Clearly, MDT makes enough money to drag along losers and give them big titles.

I knew before I took the job at one of the locations mentioned above that it was a train wreck in slow motion, so I didn't have high expectations when I accepted the job. My expectations were extremely low and they still didn't meet them. I regret accepting it, but am glad I am OUT now.
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Anonymous said:
except medtronic bangs on about the 'medtronic family' and one of the best places in the world to work when clearly it is not its the hypocrisy more than anything
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Medtronic NEVER bangs on the 'Medtronic Family'. They emphasize that it is all about work and you WILL NOT have family . I knew I made a huge mistake in training when we were to be at the training center at 7a.m. every morning and not done until 11p.m. every night. Worst company I ever worked for!!!!!!!!!!!
 




Which division is this?

Anonymous said:
Medtronic NEVER bangs on the 'Medtronic Family'. They emphasize that it is all about work and you WILL NOT have family . I knew I made a huge mistake in training when we were to be at the training center at 7a.m. every morning and not done until 11p.m. every night. Worst company I ever worked for!!!!!!!!!!!
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I don't work for them, but know a lot of the reps in my area across many divisions. All I can say is they all play dirty, talk monstrous trash on the competition, and use extremely creative accounting methods for paying off their docs for the business. If you disagree, check out any and all physicians in your area for their disclosures would suspect a majority of them are "Medtronic Consultants"
 




The biggest problem with MDT in my eyes is the incestual nature by which many of the business leaders promote, hire, etc. which breeds the same old political, CYA way of doing things.

Medtronic preaches "bold leadership" - what does that mean when the people who keep preaching this keep hiring the same dumb asses to come over to another division, bring all of the baggage and expect a different result?

The best thing for Medtronic in my eyes would be some new senior leadership from OUTSIDE the companies to come in and evaluate EVERYONE leading people. There is a lot of good with the company- but the politics and BS surrounding the businesses is unreal. The saying "sunlight is the best disinfectant" is true- sometimes. Sometimes as is the case here- FIRE makes a much better cleaner.
 








Man... Everyone here needs a spelling test. I hope you all use "spell-check" before you send out emails to clients using "ALLOT" instead of "A LOT" and "Too" instead of "To" when speaking of more than one. Idiots.
 




I wouldn't go so far as to say "Medtronic Sucks" across the board as an employer, but current day Medtronic definitely has some sucky aspects to it when compared with some of the pre-acquisition companies and the Medtronic of old.

I spent 5 years at an acquired company and 9 as part of Medtronic so I do speak from experience. I was not part of the sales force so my experience there was somewhat limited. I did support the sales force and operations among other things.

One good thing about Medtronic (any device or pharma company really) is you can develop a real sense of purpose in your job. It never bothered me working some crazy hours and being on-call 24x7 because the organizational mission was a matter of life vs death, disability, or pain. Medtronic also pays fairly well, salary and bonus wise.

Pre-acquisition and for some time afterward, it was a great place to work with a lot of really smart and highly motivated people to accomplish things which made a difference.

However, as growth slowed and the company restructured its upper management team, it was a steady downhill slide into being just another big corporate environment run by bean counters and empty suit executive has-beens from other companies outside of the device industry.

Nowadays, the pay is still decent, but motivation-wise, you may as well be working at Wal-Mart. There are still isolated cells of innovation scattered around the organization, but the star to douchebag ratio has swung way in favor of the douchebags.

HR, like HR of most big corporate organizations, is one of the worst performing departments. HROC at corporate is decent, but HR out at the business units are some of the least competent employees in the organization. It's very difficult to hire good talent, and equally difficult to kick out dead weight.

Due to all of the unethical and illegal behavior (e.g. surgeon kickbacks, the dark side of the device industry) the company is also now dominated by an army of lawyers and compliance people. If your surgeon sneezes, you had better not hand him a kleenex unless you file it on your T&E, where its cost will be aggregated and tracked. Yet you still read the stories of the crooked consulting agreements, hiring surgeon family members, even reps scoring coke for docs.

Internally, where many projects were historically focused on bringing good products to market, providing good support to field reps, etc. now many projects are focused on some internal nonsense which often means nothing to the core business. Upper management (now heavily slanted towards ass-kissers, yes men, outside-the-industry geezers and has-beens looking to supplement their income or retirement) will spend huge money to bring in outside consultants (snake oil salesmen with an army of inexperienced grunt workers) to launch some initiative which has nothing to do with the core business and ultimately fails with no accountability back to the sponsors. Then they'll try to whitewash it as a success to cover their own asses and dump it on the most convenient group of internal peons they can find. Note that I am describing current-day Medtronic, but I could be talking about almost any big corporate organization, where the leadership no longer understands the nuts and bolts of how to run the business, and instead they read the latest crap from Gartner etc. and try to recycle it into a big win for their resume and internal advancement path.

I will always look back on my time in the device industry with fondness and nostalgia, but I am very happy to have gotten out at an opportune time last year, and now working for a smaller organization that isn't wasting money on crap projects, or shipping jobs overseas at breakneck speed. For internal prospects, there are still cells of productivity in the organization, so hope you land in one of those. As for the sales force, hopefully having their unrealistic growth targets exposed as phony for multiple quarters (or years, as the case may be) will help you to get a more achievable sales plan in the future.
 




Anonymous said:
I wouldn't go so far as to say "Medtronic Sucks" across the board as an employer, but current day Medtronic definitely has some sucky aspects to it when compared with some of the pre-acquisition companies and the Medtronic of old.

I spent 5 years at an acquired company and 9 as part of Medtronic so I do speak from experience. I was not part of the sales force so my experience there was somewhat limited. I did support the sales force and operations among other things.

One good thing about Medtronic (any device or pharma company really) is you can develop a real sense of purpose in your job. It never bothered me working some crazy hours and being on-call 24x7 because the organizational mission was a matter of life vs death, disability, or pain. Medtronic also pays fairly well, salary and bonus wise.

Pre-acquisition and for some time afterward, it was a great place to work with a lot of really smart and highly motivated people to accomplish things which made a difference.

However, as growth slowed and the company restructured its upper management team, it was a steady downhill slide into being just another big corporate environment run by bean counters and empty suit executive has-beens from other companies outside of the device industry.

Nowadays, the pay is still decent, but motivation-wise, you may as well be working at Wal-Mart. There are still isolated cells of innovation scattered around the organization, but the star to douchebag ratio has swung way in favor of the douchebags.

HR, like HR of most big corporate organizations, is one of the worst performing departments. HROC at corporate is decent, but HR out at the business units are some of the least competent employees in the organization. It's very difficult to hire good talent, and equally difficult to kick out dead weight.

Due to all of the unethical and illegal behavior (e.g. surgeon kickbacks, the dark side of the device industry) the company is also now dominated by an army of lawyers and compliance people. If your surgeon sneezes, you had better not hand him a kleenex unless you file it on your T&E, where its cost will be aggregated and tracked. Yet you still read the stories of the crooked consulting agreements, hiring surgeon family members, even reps scoring coke for docs.

Internally, where many projects were historically focused on bringing good products to market, providing good support to field reps, etc. now many projects are focused on some internal nonsense which often means nothing to the core business. Upper management (now heavily slanted towards ass-kissers, yes men, outside-the-industry geezers and has-beens looking to supplement their income or retirement) will spend huge money to bring in outside consultants (snake oil salesmen with an army of inexperienced grunt workers) to launch some initiative which has nothing to do with the core business and ultimately fails with no accountability back to the sponsors. Then they'll try to whitewash it as a success to cover their own asses and dump it on the most convenient group of internal peons they can find. Note that I am describing current-day Medtronic, but I could be talking about almost any big corporate organization, where the leadership no longer understands the nuts and bolts of how to run the business, and instead they read the latest crap from Gartner etc. and try to recycle it into a big win for their resume and internal advancement path.

I will always look back on my time in the device industry with fondness and nostalgia, but I am very happy to have gotten out at an opportune time last year, and now working for a smaller organization that isn't wasting money on crap projects, or shipping jobs overseas at breakneck speed. For internal prospects, there are still cells of productivity in the organization, so hope you land in one of those. As for the sales force, hopefully having their unrealistic growth targets exposed as phony for multiple quarters (or years, as the case may be) will help you to get a more achievable sales plan in the future.
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Well said.
 




You don't understand how much "Quality at the Roots" program is going to improve overall quality.


Well, or at least get you a sweatshirt or a pin or a poster or something, maybe a motivational speech from a VP, donuts at a really boring meeting, etc.
 




Anonymous said:
You don't understand how much "Quality at the Roots" program is going to improve overall quality.


Well, or at least get you a sweatshirt or a pin or a poster or something, maybe a motivational speech from a VP, donuts at a really boring meeting, etc.
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"Quality at the Roots" I haven't heard of this yet.......and I'm in Quality. I missed the last Bill H meeting, and the divison head for that matter. oops; will i get fired?????

Good prediction though.
 












Anonymous said:
Global 10% reduction to be announced in Feb and acted on in March. No retirement packages to be offered, no volunteers taken.
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Post-mortem on this comment...

Reductions were announced in February, but acted on in April and May, and volunteers were taken in March. Did the total number work out to 10%? Not sure...
 




The company is like all other greedy places which take advantage of people with medical problems
They sell insulin pumps which cost them about $400 for over $6800 (BUT THERE IS MORE! - they will reduce the cost to $5000! - after the slimy salesman has smoozed with you for 45 min!)

Promise delivery in 3 days! - then send an automatic email message saying the package will be shipped in 2 weeks! (SO you need to do injections for more than 2 weeks because your old pump does not work (since the company had discontinued all supplies so you will be forced to buy a new one!)

Basically a bunch of sadistic, greedy bastards who are too stupid to even know they are greedy bastards.
 




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