Company details

Sunnyvale, CA

HEADCOUNT

10000+

ORG TYPE

Corporate

SECTOR

Healthcare & Life Sciences

WEBSITE

https://www.intuitive.com/

About the company

Intuitive is a medical technology company best known for robotic-assisted surgery systems such as the da Vinci platform, along with related instruments, accessories, and services. Intuitive sells systems to hospitals and care providers, then supports ongoing procedure volume through training, accessories, and service. Intuitive also operates manufacturing, research, and training operations tied to the installed base of systems. The company is publicly traded (Nasdaq: ISRG).

Locations and presence

Intuitive is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California and lists office locations across the Americas, EMEA, and APAC. Many roles are on-site or set-schedule (especially manufacturing and hardware-adjacent work), with workplace type called out in individual job postings.

Palpable Score

79.4

/ 100

Intuitive is a strong early-career employer for students and new grads who want technical, high-impact work, because Intuitive runs a sizeable internship and co-op engine with clear eligibility rules, paid roles, and structured community touchpoints. Intuitive also publishes practical candidate guidance and a transparent early-career hiring flow, which reduces guesswork for first-time applicants. The score is capped by limited published outcomes data for early-career cohorts and a known pocket of workforce reductions in late 2025, which adds some stability uncertainty.

Pillar 1: Early-career access

Score

17.8

/ 20

The company runs a Students and University program built around 10–12 week internships and co-ops, positioned as “meaningful projects” connected to Intuitive’s larger goals and supported by planned social and professional development engagements.
Intuitive publicly describes a sizeable intern cohort model, including intern-specific onboarding dates and an intern class referenced at 195 interns with broad school representation rather than a narrow campus list.
The company advertises additional early-career entry routes beyond internships, including a full-time rotational program in finance and the RISE rotations program (Rotations at Intuitive Science and Engineering).

Pillar 2: Hiring fairness and transparency

Score

15.8

/ 20

The company publishes an intern hiring process outline that spells out stages from application to screening for basic qualifications, hiring-manager phone interview, a Zoom interview round, and offer plus background check before starting.
Intuitive describes structured but flexible assessment formats for interns, including a “Super Day” approach for some groups and a rubric used across levels (Character, Capacity, Energy, Experience), which helps candidates understand what is being evaluated.
The company provides a clear path for requesting accommodations during recruitment and frames interviews as behavioral, using past experiences rather than hypotheticals.

Pillar 3: Learning and support

Score

16.8

/ 20

The company advises managers to assign interns a peer mentor and positions this as day-to-day support for “basic questions” so interns can ramp faster without guesswork.
Intuitive runs intern-specific orientation and cohort onboarding dates, with programming that lays out the 10–12 week journey, benefits, and planned events.
The company includes deliberate community and learning touchpoints for interns, including networking events, professional development, and chances to meet company leaders through speaker sessions.

Pillar 4: Pay fairness and stability

Score

15.9

/ 20

The company publishes intern base pay ranges on job postings (with region-based ranges) and explicitly states compensation packages can include benefits and a housing allowance for interns.
Intuitive lists a broad benefits menu on the careers site, including health, dental, vision, telehealth, fertility support, adoption or surrogacy benefits, and additional support services for specific health needs.
The company had a reported late-2025 reduction affecting hundreds of roles in one California site and shift pattern, which is a stability risk signal even though the company also referenced encouraging affected employees to apply for open internal roles.

Pillar 5: Early-career outcomes

Score

13.1

/ 20

The company publishes “from interns to employees” stories and quotes that point to internship-to-full-time pathways, giving some concrete evidence that internships can convert into long-term roles.
Intuitive shares at least one clear early-career progression example inside the recruiting organization, describing a move from an associate recruiter role straight out of college to a university hiring programs manager role over time.
The company does not publish early-career conversion rates, retention rates, or typical time-to-promotion for interns, co-ops, or rotation programs, which limits confidence in outcomes beyond stories and anecdotal signals.