Boston Scientific Reviews

I worked at Boston Scientific

Pros – Very professional environment with high level of products at medical devices area

Cons – Facing hard reestructuring process to manage stocks prices

Advice to Senior Management – Please keep the long term management like a strategy to keep the professionals onboard.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at Boston Scientific

Pros – Their recent drive toward explicitly innovating and being more competitive has made the workplace more fun and creative.

Cons – They are very old-fashioned and traditional, sometimes you may feel constrained or that the structure of your worklife is heavily controlled by higher-ups.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at Boston Scientific full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Great culture of knowledge sharing and improvement. Good opportunities for career growth, both within a department as well as inter-departmental moves. Good vacation policy.

Cons – Healthcare benefits are not very good.
Production operators not treated well.

Advice to Senior Management – Maintain the knowledge sharing culture. Try to keep management more stable. Managers moving up is good, but swapping managers every 1-2 years makes it difficult to have consistent and measurable progress, as goals are also shifting that fast.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

I worked at Boston Scientific full-time for more than a year

Pros – Nice building to work in.

Cons – Negativity towards certain individuals by management

Advice to Senior Management – Measure what counts including employee satisfaction.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at Boston Scientific full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – A strong and supportive team environment. A lot of opportunity for growth into various roles. Interesting, challanging, always learning.

Cons – There is no salary adjustment based on cost of living. Unless you live in the mid-west, you will make much less comparable to competitive companies in more expensive areas. Someone living in Iowa makes the same base salary as someone in NYC. You are expected to do a lot of your work on your own time as well as many events without compensation. Most colleagues I know work at minimum 60hrs a week. Most 70-80

Advice to Senior Management – Salary adjustments based on cost of living should be addressed. You invest a lot in training employees and proper compensation would keep them from getting so burnt out an ultimately job hunting for something that pays them what they are worth.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at Boston Scientific full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Great working environment
lots of perks
good work/life balance
flexible schedule

Cons – too many layoffs
salary freezes
turnover
moving up slow

Advice to Senior Management – n/a

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at Boston Scientific as a contractor for more than 7 years

Pros – Company uses Lean Product Development techniques. There is ample opportunity to practice and build your engineering skills.

Cons – There are frequent market changes.

Advice to Senior Management – Keep supporting innovation.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

I worked at Boston Scientific full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Great people in middle management. They are willing to develop people, and put an emphasis on promoting internally. Overall a great work environment.

Cons – Lower margins for their products have lead to a series of layoffs. The company is big and bureaucratic, so they are trying to lean-out the organization. I saw 4 significant lay offs while there. They seem to be shifting to acquisitions rather that develop new technology internally.

Advice to Senior Management – Stop buying back the stock and use the savings to invest in new products.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I worked at Boston Scientific full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Great people at the individual contributor level and even some managers. Good location north of the Twin Cities, just off of 694 with access to some good restaurants for lunch. Free parking relatively close to buildings.

Cons – Director level and above have a lack of strategy. Made it through 4 layoffs in 3 years of employment but always worried about job security. Work/Life balance heavily leaned the wrong way. A manager told me to expect to work from 7 AM to 7 PM.

Advice to Senior Management – Show more employee appreciation.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at Boston Scientific full-time

Pros – six percent company 401k match
can buy more vacation
great bonus plan for salaried employees
lots of on site learning opportunities to advance your career

Cons – a long string of layoffs

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company