Many Better Choices - Compliance Analyst Intuitive Employee Review

1.0
19 Nov 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Some great people, some people with good intentions, a product that one feels good about.

Cons

By far the biggest disadvantage is exceptionally poor alignment and leadership in HR, which is the function I worked in. The result is long hours of wasted effort. My management was entirely unreceptive to taking any concrete measures towards greater clarity and alignment. Indeed, it is entirely possible they lack the requisite abilities to do so. One gets the strong impression they were put in positions based on personal loyalty rather than professional abilities (favoritism has been identified as one perennial issue at Intuitive - but they are paltry efforts to address - it is very much a class system and senior leaders seem to consider that the natural order of things). In general I found my management did the instagram nice thing on zoom but exhibited a high handed and hostile streak when pressed to have fundamental conversations (such as: how is my performance measured). Ultimately, it was a job I just had to walk away from. It was literally an unhealthy place to work. It is a fear based management culture where they sell one vision for a few months, change tracks, call it evolution when in fact it is simply ineptness, and reward those putting in the effort towards "HR transformation" by eliminating their jobs and offering to let them apply to lower level, lower pay positions. They are pushing many good people out, disempowering the good people that stay, and protecting those in higher level positions who consistently fail to deliver. There is considerable talk of Intuitive having a unique culture. In my experience, its just another medium sized bay area employer with a strong PR and propaganda game where careerist political hacks use the "values" card as an excuse rather than a guiding principal. In the end, I found it the epitome of the worst sort of corporate stereotypes and tropes with absolutely no sense of self awareness or irony.

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5.0
4 May 2026
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Pros

Able to provide care and value to patients all the way through - and on 40 hours a week, for real, with a culture that healthily jobs out a lot of stress. Everyone I work with is competent and glad to be here.

Cons

The above is not true for every corner of the company, and some places have gotten harder to exist in. Hours can run long in some places.

3.0
28 May 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The da Vinci is a powerful robotics platform and still unmatched by just about everything else in the market. With the product that great comes the experience and access to work with healthcare professionals and hospital systems at a level that is extremely valuable for a long career Medical Device. Also, the value you provide in the technical experience, the training pathway and the Surgeon learning curve to autonomy and the feeling of growing production is great when all the pieces fall into place.

Cons

If you're in an area that has good runway and they just need hands on deck with a supportive manager it's pretty straightforward career progression. However, there's a lot of territories that have been sold into a corner of sorts and because of the specific targets that absolutely need to be sold the management has gotten extremely picky and will specifically target reps from orgs such as JnJ, Applied and Medtronic to come in and flip the remaining surgeons that they've already been selling to.

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