That's what Medtronic should be renamed, because that's how everything works here. You either know somebody higher up or you're related to them and you can soar. The rest of us are sc--wed, though.
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@kc DEI was real but I honestly think it was employed as a smokescreen/distractor from what they don’t want you to notice. Sound familiar?
What @fn said is the same thing, just in bigger scale. More BU’s, more chaos. More governance, layers for things to get lost in. Like salaries and power plays and reorgs, expensive retirements. Restructure (which is a reorg lite?) to stir things yet again. It’s like the shell game - they rely on that you have lost track. Sound familiar?
Some people think the reason is DEI
I agree. That was my feedback in the exit interview. I am not bitter, just disappointed. I was pressured to hire someone who I told my manager as not my choice. Medtronic could be a great company, but leadership is lacking. Seems like a trial by error approach. It started with the CIO(who was let go), I still wonder how he got through the interviews. Few minutes with him, I could tell he was a bull shi$$@r. Then they hired a Walmart guy and his coterie, he left. I heard we have a new GOSC leader now, things will be paralyzed for sometime just like last time till the org change occurs and budgets sorted out. When Geoff created 20+ BUs, I could not believe it. Organizations nowadays go for flatter, leaner simpler organizations, he created monster, not sure where he did is Business studies. Anyways, I digress, yes how people are recruited, promoted is rotten. I still own stocks and holding on to it in the hopes, Medtronic gets a new CEO who can transform the culture