Fortune 1000 rank: 222
Best Companies rank: 72
No. of U.S. employees: 21,648
Most common salaried job (Avg. Pay):
Engineer ($89,985)
What makes it so great? Every year around the holidays, employees gather to hear patients whose lives were improved or saved by Medtronic devices tell their stories. CEO Art Collins calls it "our most important meeting of the year."
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