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Covidien

Acquired by Medtronic

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Covidien reviews

3.3

57% would recommend to a friend

(813 total reviews)

Omar Ishrak

78% approve of CEO

38% positive business outlook

Covidien has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 813 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Covidien employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufactura industry (3.5 stars).

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813 reviews
1.0
Mar 2, 2013

More interested in Margins than patients or employees

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Pays well after you have been there a while because they want to keep you there Once you leave your health (blood pressure, sleep patterns and stress level) and work/life balance do go back to normal. In other words the damage it causes (except for your marriage from always working and being stressed out) can be reversed.

Cons

All work and no play at this company. Will spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on upgrading conference rooms for executives but we can't buy copy paper and pens at the site level. No room for growth - they don't promote from within because they don't groom you for advancement. Won't fill open slots because its a cost savings but continue to heap projects on already overloaded staff. Moving medical devices out of country to low cost production sites to increase margins and know it lowers quality. Every time something happens it's a HR witch hunt to find someone to blame at local levels instead of acknowledging that Executive leadership has done nothing but set company up for failure by not staffing appropriately and focusing too much on cost savings. No loyalty to employees HR is extremely anti employee, don't trust any of them...watch your back and what you say. When market gets better expect everyone to start looking if they aren't already. Doesn't matter what location or department you work for, the culture is the same everywhere because it starts at the top.

2.0
Jan 7, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great products, good resources, international company, fair salary

Cons

no clear direction from management poor costumer relations work/life balance Bad marketing Lack of communication

3.0
Dec 27, 2012

Over time

Anonymous employee
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CEO approval
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Pros

people are good to work with

Cons

A lot of over time

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