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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
2.0
Aug 26, 2011

Respiratory & Monitoring

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Great learning opportunity to prepare you to do well at your next company. You will go to your next job amazingly strong. You will be challenged to grow (but you won't be promoted) They pay well. the employee stock purchase plan -- max it out every year! there are some really good people there (but with a 30+% turn over rate,.... revolving door.)

Cons

its easy to shine, but its exhausting and frustrating to deal with the low performing leadership that excels only at creating drama. The Senior leadership is the worst I have ever seen.-- solid incompetence in 90% of the VP positions. That trickles down to poorly qualified, barely competent people in the director positions. Leadership is very effective in the art of creating drama drama and more drama either via unacceptable or worse, unethical behavior. It is heartbreaking to care, to want to do what is right, want to advance but want no part of advancing to be on a “D-“leadership team. There is a sustained 30%+ turnover rate - don’t believe the excuses they will feed you. Truly think about what that means, what it says about the place. They have a 2 year relocation payback – to keep people for 2 years. (Corporate HQ policy and all other business units have a 1 year)

1.0
Aug 5, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Generally people in the Medical Device industry feel that time with Covidien is good experience

Cons

lack of decision making, far too many meetings not enough action, very poor attitude towards the most important stakeholders - customers. Inability to market innovation without buying companies who have done this for them, inability to retain talent, inability to take any sort of risk, extreme politics, high turnover of staff, inability to be yourself and work in a relaxed team, lack of communication, excessive report writing and complicated internal paperwork and policies - especially expenses claims, Management have a detached relationship with employees - complex internal law and anti trust policies, and constant change all resulting in stress and lack of job security.

2.0
Jun 10, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Salary, benefit package, fitness center acitvities, location, outside of work activities that are promoted, technology, colleague support, innovation, free parking

Cons

lack of managerial support, criticis, definitely an "old boys" club, lack of women leaders, no career development, few opportunities for personal development of "soft skills"

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