Complete and Utter Disconnect - Principal Software Engineer Medtronic Employee Review

2.0
Feb 8, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Pay and benefits are pretty good - The mission is something many people can get behind

Cons

- Upper management has absolutely ZERO understanding of how to effectively develop software. - Software department is hemorrhaging money because of bad practices. - Culture is INSANELY difficult to change, as many middle and upper management leaders stick their heads in the sand. - Any innovative idea is shot down in favor of just generating more tech debt and slapping new features on some old monolithic architecture that's incredibly outdated. - The only concept of innovation or architecture improvements is to shove badly designed applications into containers and stick them in Kubernetes.

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5.0
Jun 8, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The best company I’ve ever worked for.

Cons

Really can’t think of many. It’s heavily matrixed but that’s to be expected.

2.0
Jun 14, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

-People/Colleagues -Work in Med Device

Cons

-Terrible healthcare benefits -Layoffs and site closures from constant restructuring -No company vision -Lacking product vision and coherency -No desire to explore new technologies or ways of doing things -Extreme penny pinching & constant travel restrictions

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