Covidien Employee Reviews about "good benefits"

Pros

People Growth opportunities Experience Subsidised food Good Benefits Shutdown for christmass

Cons

Poor work-life balance Long Hours Can be stressful

Pros

Please note, the department where I was working has been made redundant, so the review I am giving only reflects a previous situation. Nice company culture in friendly atmosphere with good facilities. Work shift gives possibility to avoid the worst of traffic, spacious desk, nice colleagues. Good benefits such as healthcare, pension scheme and good salary

Cons

Some possibilities for career growth, but not too many. Colleagues that don't contribute are not always reprimanded, which is frustrating for those who really try to do their best.

Pros

1. Interesting work making vital health care products. Latitude to run shift your way. 2. Good benefits and bonus.

Cons

1. Working periodic weekend shifts (12 hours each day, 24 total) for no extra pay or comp time. Same applies to all overtime, which is frequent. 2. Management working in opposition to one another. 3. When interviewing, I was told that there are many opportunities for advancement. After a couple years, I asked about advancement opportunities and was told to seek elsewhere for that. So I did and quit.

Pros

Good benefits and salaries are high.

Cons

Long hours, no work/life balance, there are many individuals at the Director level that are ineffective. Micro-managing, negative, defensive. Having the headquarters out of state slows the process down to a crawl. The company spends a ton of money on their sales teams, the national sales meetings are outrageous with bands and videos. Invest the money on all employees, not just those who attend these meetings.

Pros

Co-workers are great to work with for the most part. Although the directors have "eyes" on the ground you can easily find out who the they are. Good benefits, however but they make you earn everything.

Cons

Management works thru intimidation. Being yelled at and humiliated is not out of the ordinary. Covidien talks about "changing the culture" but with the established mgmt. I cannot see how that is feasible. All mgmt. is from old U.S. Surgical days and their attitudes do not change. Too bad, they have a lot of smart people working there that are treated as replaceable.

Pros

Good benefits New office buildings (Respiratory division) tuition reimbursement

Cons

Politics some groups work extremely long hours while others take it easy Not easy to advance, unless you are good friends with the inner circle Too much talk about innovation, but its only words capable people are not rewarded or shown appreciation Yearly bonuses are small, and no stock options for professional level. Need to be director and above. Too much red tape Process is very slow and cumbersome Management does not understand the processes and is short sighted

Pros

Pretty good benefits package: 401k match, health insurance, vacation and holidays, etc. Some good, intelligent people work there. Get to work for one of the larger Medical Device manufacturers.

Cons

At least in quality, it was terrible. But I have a feeling that is true everywhere. Very understaffed in our department. Middle-management caved to upper-management and more and more work was dropped on to us without getting any compensation or help. Really not an enjoyable experience.

Pros

Good company to work for. plenty of things going on. Great technologies. Very good benefits and depending on the manager you will get your share of visibility too.

Cons

management keeps things close to vest. It would be nice to get informed whenever there is a change (which is a constant thing at Covidien). so it will definitely help to keep employees informed.

Pros

As a medical device company, it feels good to work with products that are involved with making lives better. A lot of good people with good ideas. Flexible work/life balance, good benefits and creative people.

Cons

The typical large company bureaucracy and politics. Progress often moves at a glacial pace. More communication is needed between LT and regular staff. Efforts are made to elude to a culture shift, but evidence is lacking.

Pros

Nice facilities, good management, good benefits, opportunities for growth, good work-life balance, great co-workers, fast paced, never a dull moment.

Cons

If you believe that you are "doing something good for humanity" by working at a medical device company, you are right. But remember, it's just another share-holder driven large corporation focused on making maximum profit margins this quarter.