Stryker Reviews

Former Employee – worked at Stryker full-time for more than a year

Pros – You will be asked to do an extraordinary amount of work and to travel frequently, so there's a great opportunity to learn if you have little experience.

Cons – You will be asked to do an extraordinary amount of work...but you won't be well-compensated for it. If you're going to make large personal sacrifices for mediocre compensation in one of the most expensive areas in the world, work for a smaller company that will provide some equity upside. Most senior managers do not live in California. That should speak volumes. No communication between upper management and even senior level functional areas. Dysfunctional, deep-seeded animosity between functional groups. Marketing is sales support, not product management. Very high turnover in marketing and engineering.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Stryker

Pros – $$$ opportunity, big name player

Cons – Burn you out faster than you can say "I'm Out"

Advice to Senior Management – invest in future

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Stryker full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Ping-Pong Tables. Really??? A bunch of Dope heads.

Cons – Manipulations, Shady financials, No new products, No vision.See the stock...

Advice to Senior Management – This company is doing great "according to the leadership" In Reality ...no direction, no vision, no plan, back stabbing to get the next promotion, and if you are hidding all bad decisions..like invested $150M on a aquisition and after it Completely FAILED and money were lost all the employees that were part of that "sweet deal" got promoted at Director level as a "reward"..This is Stryker!

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Stryker full-time for more than a year

Pros – It is a company that wants to succeed. A good place to work if you don't want to do much technically. Comfortable office environment.

Cons – The company hires lots of young engineers who don't know anything other than Stryker. They make a very big deal over some very minor technical accomplishments - like making a computer controlled recliner chair or an air mattress. You are evaluated largely on how well you socialize into the company - very little leadership from the bosses (who are numerous). Almost every "difficult" technical challenge is outsourced - leaving the engineers with little to do but track what other people are doing in their place. They are very big on Gallup - the company that evaluates their employees satisfaction. They are anal about numbers - everything has to be perfect or they hold big meetings to find out why their Gallup numbers are not what they want. Lots of backstabbing - managers cannot go directly to employees to talk about issues, instead they have to write secret memos to the employee's boss critical of the employee. Employee reviews happen in secret - the boss is not open about concerns or issues and will lie about them until review time. Overall, not a nice place to work. Stay away and find a real job.

Advice to Senior Management – Your engineers do very little technically. Stop outsourcing everything and make them do their own work. Put real managers on the job not wonder kids. Stop hiring desperate foreign engineers. Get rid of Gallup.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Stryker full-time for more than a year

Pros – Comfortable work environment. Work from home. Casual hours. Few actual responsibilities. No deadlines. No pressure.

Cons – Trivial work assignments on trivial products. Weird management structure. Subscribes to Gallup which means personality interviews before they will even look at your resume. They seem to want a very shallow superficial type of person. They outsource almost all engineering challenges. They make a big deal about the littlest tings. Social relationships are more important than actual work. You must conform to the team.

Advice to Senior Management – I would give management advice but they would never listen to it.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Stryker

Pros – You will learn how not to create a successful working environment. Use your experience with this culture to find and build a different culture. Success can be had by being honest, supportive, hard working, and technically adept.

Cons – Disrespect, incompetence rewarded, living with failures/fireldrills/end of word issues every day, honesty and openness is looked at as weakness, totally ineffective leadership, so much more.

Stryker Ortho has little in house technical expertise. It's all with contractors and supplier.

People do survive there, yet it's typically at the expense of others. In particular Stryker Ortho is the division you want to avoid.

Advice to Senior Management – Advice to management is useless.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Stryker

Pros – N/A. Other than benefits that are OK.

Cons – Generally underpaid in a high cost of living environment with a high level of responsibilities. Compensation does not compare to similar jobs in industry. Company is not as concerned with Quality and Ethics as they pretend to be. As long as an employee can "talk the talk" but can't "walk the walk" they will do well. Inconsistency with regard to job titles and responsibilites.

Advice to Senior Management – Hire new managers, team leaders, supervisors, clinical study managers and engineers etc. from outside the company that have management, supervisory, technical or job title experience. To many promotions from within result in a lack of qualified management or other technical employees with individuals who have no idea what is going on within industry, have no exposure to how other companies work, don't have the experience and are too involved in internal politics. Promotions are based on one persons decision instead of demonstrated knowledge, skills and experience. Employees are generally not required to develop skills or advance education and are not required to prove how they meet the requirements for a new role. No interview or qualification process exists for promotions. Available training is minimal.
Management needs to treat promotable employees as if they were new employees and challenge their experience and skills in an interview with their new peers. A potential new manager should be interviewed by other managers or higher positions. A potential new Chief or Senior Engineer should be interviewed by other Chief or Senior Engineers. A Team leader or Supervisor needs to be interviewed by other Team Leaders or Supervisors. A qualification program needs to be designed for all levels within the company. The individuals that generally make these promotion decisions are not always familiar with the daily responsibilities or technical skills required for the promotable position they are signing off on.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Stryker

Pros – lots of trainings, materials to learn from, good facilities and coffee machines

Cons – very arrogant managers and rare to be recognized no matter how hard you work.
recently company is drawning .

Advice to Senior Management – change sick managers who only seeking for promoting themselves.

Former Employee – worked at Stryker

Pros – * Good environment
* Fast paced

Cons – * Should be "yes" man to get promotion
* Doesn't recognize hard work
* Bosses are tough to please and always want more and never satisfied

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Stryker

Pros – Decent compensation - although not extraordinary, and certainly not per hour when you factor the workweek is WAY longer than comparable positions. Even a non-management position can easily average 55 hour workweeks.

Cons – Very negative work environment with arrogant, cocky people that often treat others with disrespect. Departments have such different goals, they work against each other. Lots of ex military are hired in roles that they have no experience in, because management likes their militaristic ways of viewing/solving problems, but they often have little/no experience to effectively do their jobs and they treat their subordinates horribly, while literally yelling at them red-faced, as if a boot camp sergeant. There is no care for employees having any form of a work/life balance, and advancement is moreso about being part of a particular clique than a truly earned position. This was by far my worst work experience ever, and based on the HUGE employee turnover rate, most others agree. Face time is required, and if you're not working huge amounts of overtime every day, you're thought of as not being Stryker material. Even non-managerial employees often get caught up in attending 4-5 hours/day on average of meetings/training, etc. making getting a busy day's work done that much more challenging. It's a dog-eat-dog environment and the Gallop poll, which tries to bring in worker clones, makes for a boring atmosphere with mainly Type-A personalities (to an arrogant extreme) that don't work well together. There is no interest in creating any type of a diverse atmosphere where people with different ways of approaching ideas/problems can work together. Unless you're one of those people that actually enjoys the type of atmosphere I just described, do not consider applying because you will be miserable working there.

Advice to Senior Management – Show a true concern for employees having some semblance of a work/life balance, make sure lower managers aren't abusing their positions of power by treating their subordinates with complete disrespect. Make (and enforce) a statement that yelling/abusive language is not a tolerated form of discipline.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend