Are h1b employees required to work during garden leave? Management forcing me to work despite being on garden leave. Is it even legal? When I asked HR- they said oh it’s a grey area, but due to your status you must work. Is that a lie?

Wowzers where to begin….to keep it short been working my a-s off for awhile because expectations, workloads, projects, and meetings keep increasing and people keep leaving. Management doesn’t care about anything and keeps cycling through contractors... — read more 

How many leadership face to face sessions are taking place this/next week? Any bets that “cost savings” is a big topic?

Hello everyone ! I’m back and I hope you’re all happy and healthy including the negative ones that bad mouth Medtronic.. lol It’s been 4 mos since I got riffed since May 5th and I I’m living the dream but I have to admit I left my heart in... — read more 

Listening to Emily Elswick discuss her faith this morning and then walk through an entire slide dedicated to her personal travel and work trips was certainly a choice. Given that our MIP was 70%, I’m not sure this was the moment for a personal... — read more 

Comrades, do just enough to get paid and nothing more. This place is a sinking ship and they’ll throw you to the sharks long before you are given a seat on a lifeboat. Spend more time with your family. Take long walks before the sun goes down... — read more 

Nothing new has been released in the last 5 years and the existing products are bad.

Interesting Linkedin post with internal and external POV on the Hugo fiasco and the resultant $700M investment for the right to sell someone elses robot? https://lnkd.in/p/gN_sz95G

Several people leaving the company including VP of S&T & mention that S&T will no longer exist. What will happen to those teams?

With RCE having finally implanted turnstiles to badge in and out, do they do any time tracking? Doubt it would show up on a dashboard but for any sites who have had them, any consequences?

Never assume Medtronic asking you to move means they plan to keep you around. I've seen people make a huge life change and uproot their entire families for an offer that came with a move and then lose that same job soon afterward.

Are any other departments breaking up and being made independent like Medtronic diabetes was? Does anyone know?

Is minimed still part of Medtronic? I see minimed staff still on ms teams. Anyone know when they are completely independent? Is minimed facing redundancies as well? I'm wondering if its a good idea to make a shift to minimed or stay in... — read more 

It seems every quarter Medtronic is going through another massive restructure. How are we supposed to keep up when entire teams are being made redundant or individuals just get fed up and quit? The last quarter has been awful. I'm doing the work of... — read more 

I’ve seen a lot of great employees RIF’d in the past year. Even if you try hard your number may be drawn for the next round of layoffs. Doing an AMAZING job and the bare minimum both amount to the same 2-3% raise. Your bonus can be arbitrarily... — read more 

Seriously, with the constant push for mega tech corpo culture these past few years will Medtronic ever return to its actual mission of helping patients rather than helping “consumers”?

What do we know? I’ve been told it’ll be big and we may know more as early as tomorrow

It was before the endless layoffs, before the culture soured, before I watched talented people get walked out for no good reason. Now I don't even recognize the place. If you still believe there's something to respect here, I'd genuinely like to know... — read more 

Thierry mentioned there was an extra week of selling this quarter resulting in additional $570 million. If we didn’t account for this extra week, we would be showing negative growth? Misleading to investors or par for the course?

Anyone hear about layoffs later this year? Someone on my team with connections said there will likely be layoffs in December/January depending on how many people quit with the November RTO mandate. The wish from the top is many people quit instead of... — read more 

I know people have strong opinions about this.

Just wonder if anyone has any creative ideas to get around RTO or is Management helping by bending the rules? Best of luck in the new school year Folks !!!!

With the ship clearly sinking, why would anyone join Medtronic now? Please, if you joined in the last year or two, can you share why? I'm genuinely curious.

Our CEO didn’t get GM initials for nothing . G.M: Good Man Great Mentor Generous millionaire Giving Man Godly Man Good-looking man Even “My Guy”is GM backwards lol As Tina would sing … Your simply the best..🎶🎶🎶 Better than all the rest... — read more 

A question regarding benefits: On my team, two employees are employees are effectively working reduced hours because they have childcare responsibilities during the workday. Why isn't there a “carrying the extra workload” bonus for the colleagues... — read more 

How did he possibly manage to sail away with a smooth $3.3 MILLION "severance payment?" With all the layoffs and cuts!

https://www.medicaldesignandoutsourcing.com/medtronic-ceo-pay-2026-executive-comp/ This is a 10% raise from 2025 Meanwhile stock down 27% last 5 years. Congratulations. Great job GM Imagine the amount of RIFS that could’ve been saved if these ... — read more 

I have never met a bad person that got RIFFED. It was always the nice ones that were at or close to retirement . People look at it as a punishment but in reality it’s the company way of rewarding the good ones . The truth is everyone I know wants... — read more 

Hello everyone! Hope you are all happy and healthy! I was part of the RIF that occurred last May and to say the least I am still a faithful employee .Over the past 25 years this company has helped me raise my kids, put food on my table and paid my... — read more 

I heard Elliot Management is cutting their losses and moving on from Medtronic to greener pastures.

I’ve seen too many high performers impacted by RIF over the past two years. You can give it your all and they will still axe you despite doing exactly what you are asked to. No one is safe. Don’t give this company all your time and energy. In 20... — read more 

With all the talk about RIFs lately, I'm thinking strategically about my next move here. I'm not necessarily looking to grow, lead, innovate, take on stretch assignments, contribute, or “make an impact.” At this point, I'd really just like to find... — read more 

It’s now mid-August and no VERP has come out yet. Little birdie, please spill the beans if you know something. Does anyone have any credible information on a VERP coming, and if so, when?

I learned that not all MN based remote employees that live within 25 miles of an office will lose their remote status. In some cases, if a team is small and has only a few members that fall into this target group, they will not be required to... — read more 

This garbage company and its garbage M&A under existing leadership have destroyed it. If this company... and its incompetent corporate development team under even more incompetent leadership and a clueless board... could evaluate opportunities half... — read more 

Someone crucial to the daily and long-term operations of our team was let go today in a RIF. Our work will slow down and become more difficult because of it. Those we support will feel the consequences, too. Don’t let anyone tell you that those let... — read more 

Was supposed to be mid 2026. When is it happening and why is it getting pushed out?

Does the fact that you could go all out, work a ton, crush all your goals and then some, and still be laid off in the spring motivate you to work harder?