Working at Boston Scientific — Reviews by Employees

Salary starts off somewhat reasonable and but then drops off the scale. The "special people" get anything out of this company. These "special people" get paid at a decent rate and they are given good opportunities for career growth.

If you're a homosexual and/or minority, you're experience is almost always worse. They only reason they keep you around is because the government requires companies to have a certain percent of women and/or minorities. Otherwise you will not see much diversity at this company despite the Boston-area having a very large talent pool of minorities. I've even seen managers with pictures of Ronald Reagan in their offices. It is not uncommon to hear slurs against minorities or homosexuals bantered about, and if you complain to HR, expect severe retaliation and blowback since HR is simply a tool of management. Don't believe their "no retaliation policy", it's a blatant lie. I've seen 3 people complain and then go down in flames as a result of retaliation.

This is most definitely not the place to work if you are smart, talented, educated, and eager for growth in the medical device industry. You should only work at BSC if you have no experience in the medical device industry, not much education and training, and are older and don't care about the work you do or being happy, and you desperately need to pay the mortgage on your McMansion that cost 4x your actual salary.

Don't waste your time working at this inept outfit. In order to entice you to work there, they'll try to bribe you with their cafeteria and gym with personal trainer, but don't make a mistake by falling for their bribes. Just remember, all that glitters is not gold. If you've already wasted some time here, don't waste any more.

The negatives: I have worked for the company for over 3 years. Very few people have respect for themselves let alone a co-worker especially if you are an hourly employee. At that level, very few people will give you the time of day. There is very little job security and you live under the constant suspicion/threat that you are the next to be laid off or fired to help make the numbers look better. Although they claim to be all about balancing your work/life you find out in your year end review how inconvenient your balancing act has been for everyone. There is no career path or growth potential unless your pedigree is high enough. Most of the focus is on Directors and above. The campus is beautiful but your working conditions are less than desireable. The conditions are very cramped and there are very few windows. You feel as though you are in a dungeon. With regard to co-worker competence, there would be more of it if people where willing to work as a team instead of for themselves and their own personal gain. Also, if they were so arrogant and didn't feel they were above doing anything. But to be fair, I understand that this is the norm is many companies.

Positives: The benefits are decent. With todays economy, at least you have a job, for now. It pays the bills and I guess could be worse.

Work/Life Balance: You will be working long hours due to poor management planning. Most of the time, managers don't listen to employees and make poor, fickle decisions. Employees are the victims of their poor decisions and they need to spend extra time to rework and then re-rework. Working here will make you miserable and have no time for family or friends. I would not work here even if they offered me higher compensation

Benefits: Nothing spectacular.

Respect: This is not something you could think about. Management is disrespectful to employees. Managers say lots of abusive things to employees. If you try and complain to HR, HR will have you fired.

Job Security: Beware, the new CEO wants to eliminate 15% of the workforce, and will place the blame on Obama's healthcare plan and higher taxes. The company has margins close to 90% on some product lines, so blaming the upcoming layoffs on Obama is dishonest.

Career Potential/Growth: There is no room for advancement as managers do not care. Management style is extreme micro-management. Managers and directors scrutinize every document as if they don't trust our work. I think they should fire all lower level employees and do the work themselves.

Co-worker Competence: People do not take responsibility for their mistakes and there is a lot of finger pointing. Reasonable self-defense is unacceptable to our director who is too weak and trying to suck up to other departments' heads. We work so hard to prove ourselves. Other departments laugh on us as we work to death to find their issues.

Work Environment: As mentioned in a previous review, this place is like a prison. The entire facility is in a remote area and gated, security guards are patrolling in Jeeps and monitoring everyone 24/7.

upper managment making employees go against GOI's and then when a problem arrives they blame people following what they were told to do.When FDA finally get here I hope they see right through their smoke of mirrors.Their indangering peoples lives with pushing people to thier limit and not caring about quality.

Leadership gained thier position by being in a company that exloded over the last 7 years. The fact that they were good leaders in a 2 billion dollar company does not equate to them being good leaders in at 12 billion dollar company. They only promote people that will swear allegiance to the leadership and dedicate themselves 24X7 for the good of the company. This company has made consistent bad decisions since the aquisition of Guidant Corporation and the bad decisions are starting to pile up and crumble. If you want quantitative evidence of that just check out the stock price in the last 3 months. A full cleaning of the management layer is the only chance this company has to survive. We will just have to see if the new CEO has the intestinal fortitude to do so.

Used to be a nice company to work for until 2006, that's when they got broadsided by the FDA Corporate Warning letter and then they got greedy and bet the ranch on buying Guidant. This company is too big to manage and either needs to decentralize the different business groups like JNJ, or it needs to split itself up into smaller, more manageable units like how Tyco split itself into 3 different companies.

wow it's got Boston and Scientific in the name - this company rocks like Dr. Rockso.

This place is one giant Charlie Foxtrot due to the repeated FDA inspection disasters and resulting 483s and warning letters. Any attempts to remedy the situation result in an even greater Charlie Foxtrot. Co-workers only care about their bonus, since there is a salary freeze and bonuses are the only way to grab some extra cash. However in order to get a bonus, you must first stab your colleagues in the back and then throw them under a bus, and then back the bus up to run them over again so this way you look really good and get all the cash allocated for bonuses. Most people here have no background in medical devices and are unaware of FDA regulations, and could care less. Sure they pretend that they know it all, but they have no clue and that's why they have the FDA warning letter in place for 4 years and still counting. Anybody even remotely considering a job here should look elsewhere, you'll be glad you did.

If you work here there is alot of reading like 2months worth then force by coworkers and managers to read more more. Then no documentation on how to do your job. I say take there money money money money. They need to have more things in writing and better training. I found they have instructor courses but do not offer this to contactors only to employees. The meetings are a joke and Global Complaints GCS2 Tier 2 Mailbox and coworkers will train you wrong to look good. What is ok with since i do not need a job please lay me off soon in 6 months. Since many people have applied for this job. No postive feedback from managers or coworkers. If you make postive progress no free lunch. They should treat contractors with more respect. I feel bad for the foreigners that have jobs at BSCI they are all over worked and have to wear to many hats.. I hope someone reads this that cares about BSCI future. I do care but hard to when i here coworker back stab others and people who worked there in the past in the department. Yes i feel bad that i replaced someone job. I was not told this I feel bad about replacing someone. So people stand up to your boss and do your job worse to prove a point.

Boston Scientific is an okay place to work if you like constant change. Do you ever have mornings when you wake up and dread just going to work ? Then this is the place for you to work if you like horrible hours and constant change. The engineers are way over paid for the things they do. For E.X. they do absolutely nothing except for wonder why we cannot make daily,monthly or even weekly goals. Well i will tell you why we dont make those goals it is because the engineers like to complain about how we do things wrong and then they change something to make the product lines even slower than before. Wow i wonder why we dont make goals !!!!!! It wouldnt be so bad but they have been doing it for over ten years and had very few problems and now something has to be changed. I understand quality is one of the key factors in this job and that is fine. But dont change things on the product lines and then ask stupid questions like " why are you not getting your numbers " . We have better quality,better numbers, and happier people when we are left alone !!!!!!!!!!!!