Smart People w/lots of corporate politics - staff supplier engineer Intuitive Employee Review

3.0
May 16, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Smartest people I have ever worked with were at Intuitive Surgical, specifically in regards to technical ability.

Cons

Corporate politics and need to exercise authority too prevalent. Despite the brilliant engineering talent at Intuitive the management at Intuitive across the board is really bad. A lot of finger pointing and deflecting rather than solving actual problems or processes.

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Cons

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Pros

The da Vinci is a powerful robotics platform and still unmatched by just about everything else in the market. With the product that great comes the experience and access to work with healthcare professionals and hospital systems at a level that is extremely valuable for a long career Medical Device. Also, the value you provide in the technical experience, the training pathway and the Surgeon learning curve to autonomy and the feeling of growing production is great when all the pieces fall into place.

Cons

If you're in an area that has good runway and they just need hands on deck with a supportive manager it's pretty straightforward career progression. However, there's a lot of territories that have been sold into a corner of sorts and because of the specific targets that absolutely need to be sold the management has gotten extremely picky and will specifically target reps from orgs such as JnJ, Applied and Medtronic to come in and flip the remaining surgeons that they've already been selling to.

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