I’m interested in hearing if you could pick any company to move to who would it be?
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I feel leery of medical device companies. Usually, it gets too political. For biomedical engineering, I went back to academia. I joined a research group to study AI on image data with the Mayo Clinic.
Example of politics at a medical device company: early in my career, I was mentored by a woman who was both a licensed nurse and electrical engineer. She was the lead developer who coded a robotic device for blood analysis and processing data. She trained me to do medical device QA. But the "old school 1950s" manager of the time (late 90s) was threatened by her talent and just put a glass ceiling on her. So, she quit in disgust. Upon learning of this turmoil, the company reprimanded the manager and asked her to return. She refused. I have seen negative politics at medical device companies like that too many times. BTW, she was not DEI. I have seen some (not all) females promoted just because of DEI, but the nurse/EE was not one of them. She was the best engineer in the group who was also a nurse.
As for negative politics at Medtronic, the pattern was just to send jobs overseas and lay off the talented engineers. It's like "Office Space". The remaining engineers are left to do more work on their own on a tight budget. Now, there's a RTO mandate when a lot of "onsite" meetings will just involve remote workers like in India. So, the "politics" destroy the zeal to stay in the medical device industry. Perhaps other companies are different, but I feel too jaded. A good analogy is a YT video by a private detective who investigates cases of infidelity. In that video, the private eye said he has seen far too many covert activities of infidelity and feels too jaded to marry again. That's how I feel about medical device companies.
So, biomedical engineering is still part of my life in academia. As for a career, my tech work went into the financial industry. Once I get the PhD, I will seek AI jobs to the highest bidder - lol. I think my current financial company will offer one. AI is growing rapidly, and I know it very well: CNN, RNN, GCN, GAT, GraphSAGE, Transformers, Adam optimizer, forward propagation, loss functions (custom or standard), vanishing gradients, LASSO, etc.
In summary, I am a biomedical engineer with multiple master's degrees and many years of experience who feels too jaded to try again for a medical device company after Medtronic sent my job overseas. I just do biomedical engineering in academia on my free time for a PhD which is very fulfilling. I finished all courses and only need the dissertation. The group specializes in AI and healthcare.
Philips. Moving fast. Faster than I suspect we have planned for.
@mj
That is the d-mbest comment on why you would leave Medtronic.
Why stop there, why not say if you were 6’7, I would play in the NBA! Or if I had wicked arm strength, I would pitch for the Yankees.
If I had AI experise, I would work for Meta, Apple, NVIDEA, Open AI, etc. The compension is massive and the job could be very interesting
I’d rather not work OP
Retirement.