A Great Place for Engineers! - Engineer Intuitive Employee Review

5.0
28 June 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

This is a new field, with lots of challenges in many areas. The right answers are being figured out now, and working at Intuitive Surgical all of us get to be a part of that. It's by far the most talented and motivated group of people I've ever worked with, and everyone can see the impact of their work on the product, and the patients who are treated with it. It's a very ethical and data-driven place to work; there's relatively little drama about even major decisions, and though decisions don't always go the way I think they should, I do feel that I've got a say in them and that my voice is heard.

Cons

There's only one I see: there's nowhere to hide. If you're the kind of person who just wants to coast in a job, this is not the place for you. Everyone is given a lot of individual responsibility, which is part of the philosophy of small, nimble product teams.

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5.0
4 May 2026
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CEO approval
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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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