Having been a Guidant employee acquired by Boston Scientific, this was a bad acquisition for me. - Anonymous employee Boston Scientific Employee Review

3.0
Apr 13, 2011
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Flexible work schedule. This has helped me on a number of occasions when I needed to deal with family issues. Lots of great exposure to new technology.

Cons

Boston Scientific strives to be an average company. There seems to be an strong desire to do what the market is doing and to not stray far from that. In the long run, I think that hurts our ability to bring great things to the market. I suppose that's simply the way big business runs. Having worked for smaller companies that were more employee centric, this seems to be a bad route to take. Training was almost non-existent for many years due to the fact that we were not allowed to travel.

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