r&d engineer

electrophysiology technician

clinical specialist

field representative

territory manager

Boston Scientific

I’ve worked at Boston twice. Once was last year(2018)  From end of May until only the end of June, but I really enjoyed working there for the most part.  I ended up being pregnant and got really sick almost every single day so they kept telling me to go home, which ultimately got me put on medical leave. The lady who put me on medical had told me that i should’ve sucked it up, because she has been pregnant before and worked. To which I explained how with my first pregnancy I never got sick a single time, and with that pregnancy I was currently in, I was sick almost 24/7 for the first 4 months. She had also told me that I could’ve refused to go home each time my SUPERVISOR told me to leave, and I didn’t know I had much of a say-so in that decision.  
Fast forward: They called me at the end of March 2019 asking if I would like my job back. I eagerly said yes because i literally had reapplied to the company two weeks before they called. I attended last Monday’s orientation and then on that Tuesday, my car was broke down so I had no way to make it to orientation/class. Luckily they gave me the chance to make it up this Tuesday, so I had the rest of that first week off and that Monday off. Well this Tuesday, my car broke down again but this time it broke down when I was already on my way to work, I tried calling numerous of times, which was around 8-10 times and got no answer every single time and I left voicemails a few times. One of my friends ended up picking me up and they rushed me there, so I was ultimately an hour late, but by the time I talked to someone I needed to talk to, I was an hour and a half late so they sent me home because they couldn’t play “catch up” with me even though I already knew the information because I was a rehire. I’m crying this whole time because I desperately needed this job, which I made clear numerous of times, and begged them to let me stay. They told me they would call me later this week to talk to me about next Tuesday’s class. Well I checked the app to see if I had any notifications, and they fired me. Mind you, on Tuesday, they had even mentioned to me that they didn’t have me wrote down to be in Tuesday’s group. So they fired me, even though they would’ve sent me home on Tuesday for a mistake they had made if I wouldn’t have been late. I was hired through a temp service, but Boston is the one that fired me because the temp service is still trying to help me find a job.. I was really looking forward to working at Boston for a second time, and I’m disappointed in myself, even though it was something completely out of my hands.. unlucky is my middle name.. 
my advice is, is to be careful working for this company because I’ve heard other people as well as myself say that they will find any reason to let an employee go.

I worked at BSC's Arden Hills location for 7 years.  BSC tends to hire the best people.  Most of my coworkers were extremely intelligent and dedicated employees, and it was wonderful working with so  many high-quality professionals.  One of my managers was totally fantastic, and the other three were ok/pretty good.  

In a company this large, it's hard to say how good or how bad it is, across the board, because the individual employees' experiences can differ vastly, culturally, depending on who's in the chain-of-command for the different departments.  

BSC is a bit male-dominated and could improve their gender equity practices by promoting women into more of the senior management roles and being more transparent (internally, to current employees) re: the pay associated with each job title.  I had to push hard (demand) to get my job title and pay corrected, after doing functions that were above my [then] pay grade for almost two years.  It's a very large company, which comes with pros and cons, i.e. layers of rules, which is sometimes good and sometimes bad, for the employee.  Like a previous huge corporation employer of mine, every job/position had an HR-official title and pay range (minimum, midpoint & maximum), but unlike that other huge corporation employer, BSC kept the pay grades/salary ranges top-secret.  This was WEIRD.  It was impossible for employees to know if an open position would be a step-up or down, and this secretiveness felt shady, to me.  Were some employees getting underpaid for their level of responsibilities and BSC wanted to keep getting a 'bargain' on those workers?    

I was extremely proud to work at BSC, loved my jobs and became close friends with my coworkers.  I was pretty devastated when I got RIF'd ("reduction-in-force", i.e. terminated due to budget cuts, not poor performance), even though RIF's were pretty common across different cardiac medical device companies, in the seven years I was in the industry, at the end of 2016.  My severance was 2 weeks of pay for every year I'd worked with the company (i.e. 14 weeks of pay) and BSC subsidized a significant portion of my COBRA health insurance premiums for seven months.  

I have applied for several positions at BSC, but have yet to make the cut for an interview on any of them.  A lot of companies publicize/tout their goal to “retain/rehire” past employees as much as possible, but I’ve come to believe that’s 98% PR/lip service, designed to cultivate company loyalty from current employees, who will falsely believe the company “has their back” and dearly cares for them.

I was hired to work thru a temp agency. In the 2 day orientation, they explained it would be mon-fti 40 hours a week with the possibility of overtime if you want it. 
In reality, on my first day my trainer told me they had been working every saturday as well for as long as he had been there (5 months). You will be given short notice about the over time, which is MANDATORY every weekend with few exceptions (sometimes only 1 day notice). My schedule was second shift 2-10, but most saturdays i had to work 12-8 or 10am-6pm because first shift decided to come in at 1am or 2am. I was given no choice and forced to change my schedule last minute no matter how inconvenient. Depending what area you work in production/assembly, you may be forced to work mandatory sundays as well. So you will work 6 if not 7 days a week, every week. For holidays, many areas had to work every day except Christmas Day. 
If you request vacation or call in sick, when you return supervisors/coworkers, ect will act like you wronged them and give you the cold shoulder. I worked at the plymouth, mn location and thought maybe the overtime was only because they were planning to move locations. But,after speaking to someone who had been there for 2 years, found out it has been this way for at least 2 YEARS. 
Temp service will not answer your questilns regarding if it is mandatory for temp workers to work every day, each and every week. Will give you the run around and act annoyed that you called. 
They want you to be robots and give up your lives, families, other interests,ect to sacrifice so they can make more money. 
Work is easy, but the way you are treated makes the bonus and everything not even worth it. 
Supervisors and trainers will have extreme favortism. 
Most workers are foreign, with poor english speaking skills, do not get taxes taken out so they work 80 hours per week. They will stay late each day even if there is no work. If you are American born, you will be sent home on a random tuesday. But know you will stoll work that weekend. 
Even if you make your quota or go above and beyond, you will still work weekends. This causes high turnover so most people quit after a couple months. They dont care and are constantly bringing in no people,act clueless as to why people quit. 

If you have a family, friends, or just dont want to work every day of every week all year...DONT WORK HERE

Coworkers are great people with very few occasional bad apples. They're supportive of you most of the time and are a great way of helping you through your work days. The benefits are also exceptional, if you want benefits this is a great start.

Most management are pretty horrible in my experience. They're ALL about numbers and will do absolutely anything to achieve it. And I mean ANYTHING. We have had no talking, no walking, no closing eyes, have to work multiple jobs at once, and signing paper to go to the bathroom "rules" you could say. This is all to achieve their monthly goals. They don't even give proper raises or promotions even with all of this. Some of these rules are still into effect and can change depending on your management but overall you're less likely to get a genuine good person as your management.

If you have experience I suggest you try and get a position with experience required because you can have a hard time getting promoted after you're hired. There's also overtime but it's mostly mandatory with little voluntary. If you like overtime, this work has some for you.

An advice for anyone is to have great attendance because they will not hesitate to fire you unless you have proven and been working here long enough for them to not want to fire you.

Boston Scientific was THE company I wanted to work at for years. Shortly before Covid-19 I was finally able to get in to the company and work with them through a contract. I was beyond excited to join the team and learn the ropes, I started out very eager to learn and had attended some of their employee courses.
A few weeks into the company, and still going through training, I had heard about our Boston Scientific companies closing down and working from home because of Covid-19. It was spreading rapidly, and quickly took over Italy. Then it started popping up in the US and I knew what was coming. So I quickly thought ahead, being very conscious of safety, and asked my manager via Email what would happen at our location if we ended up working from home? I communicated with her that just in case I should have VPN access so I could continue with my work at home. She didn't answer until the next week, which she pulled me in my office and proceeded to wave her finger around in disgust at me and tell me "you will NEVER be working from home! We will NOT be shutting down! You are the only one that even asked me about this out of ALL my employees!" She left me feeling shamed for even asking about it. Three days later an email went out from Corporate instructing EVERYONE to work from home! I wasn't prepared because she didn't allow my to get VPN access. So I had to go in the office when nobody else was there, and finally had it added! It took my contract agency to call them up and ask what was going on and why I wasn't getting VPN access before I finally got it. No employee or contractor should ever feel ashamed or treated this way for asking about their safety!

Have to work with some people who are diversity hires and help them to understand mechanical engineering. Most come here to get their foot in the door then move up to management quickly. Some really don't have good mechanical engineering skills but they cling to the diversity and other woke talking points to stay relevant. They force vaccines (can't come to work without getting the poke). They check a lot of the diversity boxes but I think they are going to be weaker in the next few years because of it. Too many engineers can't change out a limit switch or set up a camera inspection system. Not trying to be mean but this is how it is. If your not a POC you may want to pull an Elizabeth Warren and say you are a minority or part of the LGBTQ community so you have a better chance at getting hired. They hire mostly new engineers right out of college so you constantly have to train them. Very few experienced engineers and project leads. Most project leads have less than 5 years total experience so you have to constantly answer the same questions over and over again. 

•	Printing all Labels and Full knowledge on trouble shooting
                                    Of the Printer that are being used for the Labels.
•	Full knowledge in using Windows XP Operating System
                                    And Paradox for Windows for Printing Laser Etching Form.
•	Using Legi and Barney Ellis Software. Duties Include Full
                                    Inspections and Control following the Company’s Specification
                                    And Standards. Monitor Procedures and maintain Reports to  
                                    Identify problem. Participating in the new Product Development
                                    And Processes. Also inspect Parts carefully so as to distinquished
                                    The good ones from the reject. And following Manufacturing
                                    Process Instruction and Good Manufacturing Practice.
•	Full Inspection of Catheters with Thermal Bond.
•	Maintain Process Building Units by following Procedures.

•	Preparation and Process of Thermal Bond by Trimming
                                     And Distal Tubing.
•	Work in Final Assembly and Final Adjustment of  Catheters.
•	Solder Tensioning and Wire Terminal Stamping.
•	Final Adjustment of Units using proper Templates.
•	Work in Sub-Assembly area doing the Rolling, Stamping
                                    And Pretinning of Steering Wires.
•	Work in Packaging Area.
•	Work in Shipping and Receiving Area.
•	Final Inspection: Inspects electronic systems, assemblies,
Subassemblies, components, and parts for conformance to specification by performing the following duties. Examines production documents to ensure that all assembly, inspecting and testing steps were performed according to specifications. Records inspection data such as serial number, lot number, type, and percent of defects and rework required. 


Management and money rule here.  If you like following and doing anything that your manager says this is the place for you.  But if you have ideas of your own and do not believe your manager is always right, stay away at all costs.  It will be a VERY caustic environment for this type of personality.  This is a manager's heaven and a practicing engineer nightmare.  Huge turnover.  1-2 years is normal in the area I was in.  
If you are seeking a non engineering position it seems like people I knew enjoyed it.  That's where they get good ratings.  As an engineer, unless you are the one in charge, or ladder climbing is your goal, stay away.  Or if you simply do not mind being micro managed then its the place for you.  They have a very fixed way of doing things and will not change.  Try it, but be aware that it is not a fit for all personalities.  Don't think you will find a "niche", this place does not care, you will conform or leave.
My first day there one of my greetings was "welcome to Boston, your life is over".  This is verbatim, it is burned into my mind, I should have run.
I hold no grudges here, my fault, should have come to terms that it was not a fit for me.  But I have only held 2 jobs in 30 years.  It's not in me to easily give up.  I am disappointed more than anything.  Had Boston allowed/trained/implemented leaders there instead of managers fixed on their careers using people to advance themselves and forcing upper management's overly aggressive goals "at all costs" ie. you, it would have been an awesome place to work.  It had every potential to be an awesome place to work.

Start early, jump on projects and work diligently until complete.
I learned a lot about how to multi-task with priority projects that need to be completed within same time frame.
Management has goals that must be met for bonuses to be paid and corporate is tightening the window with too many value improvements projects to save a buck.
The worker bee's of this company are all great people who have families and patients that depend on them to produce an awesome product.
The hardest part about working there is hearing about corporate needing to save money and laying off really good people who worked hard for the organization for years to be tossed out with a thank you and possibly a severance package or just your vacation check. Directors telling you they don't want to but it's the only way the department can save money is to lay off folks and pass more responsibility on the workers that are left whether they have enough training or not.
The most enjoyable part of the job was interacting with all the great people who work there, having a beautiful kitchen/cafe inside the company so you have more time and choices to eat better with your friends.
Overall it's a good place to work but corporate will destroy the ranks with their VIP's and more good people will continue to jump ship as they have for the past three years so they're not the next person caught off guard to be layed off and told "I have no other reason then being forced to save money again this year and we need to cut salaries to do so".





I was told when hired that you only spend 2-3 weeks on a machine in order to learn it, get the certification, and then move on to another machine. This was because they wanted to be able to move people around so you're not doing the same thing every day. The 2-3 months I was there, I was on one machine the whole time. I had one day where they finally put me on another machine, but that was it, they sent me back to the other machine. The dexterity required for the machine I was on was a bit much for my large hands. I wasn't very fast, but I wasn't so slow that I was hindering the production for the day. I would've been happy to operate ANY of their other machines, even the one I tried. I was able to operate that other machine at top speed with no issues. At the end of my stint there, I got a call after my Friday shift not to show up Monday. I asked what the reasons were and they said that it was because I was refusing to work, complained all the time, and defied management. This was funny to me, because the whole time I was there, management never talked to me once. I didn't even get to defend myself on these accusations. The cherry on top of all this was the fact that the company had had a huge meeting about how management wasn't communicating with the employees enough. I don't know if this is the same throughout the whole company, but at least within the battery manufacturing section, management just doesn't care about anything but achieving the desired numbers and better. Apply at your own risk.

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