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Updated May 16, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Marketing at Stryker
Posted May 19, 2011
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1.0
Very Easy Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed May 2011 in Kalamazoo, MI (took 7 months)
This was the worst interview process I have ever had. It spanned over six months because the HR people at Stryker are incompetent and complete garbage, as are the regular employees. It was a combination of phone, personal interviews that took place several times. Lots of repetition, inefficiency, and stupidity afoot. The HR people are also incapable of being quick about travel plans. I didn't get my itinerary or schedule until the day before my travels which can be VERY troublesome and problematic-- which occurred when there was an issue with my ticket.
This was the worst, most unprofessional and most inefficient interview process I have ever had. The people who were interviewing me were not intelligent and very sub-par. The people shuffled me around and didn't know what they were doing. This does not shine well to a potential employee. I ended up talking to a lot of people who work/worked at Stryker and they all encouraged me to NOT work there because it's a waste of time and it's better to go somewhere else, anywhere else because Stryker is not a place that values their employees or has good benefits.
My advice: it is easy to get a job here but you should really look into other options. This company does not care about you. When looking at the offer, I could tell that the benefits are NOT very good, vacation is sparse, NO sick days, performance review before a year occurs, can/will fire you at any time (at-will like many companies) and they expect you to work long hours with no benefit to yourself. Just from engaging with employees here, I could tell the culture is very unprofessional, very backstabbing, and tense. You will not find friends here. I am sure you can learn a lot, but you can also learn a lot at a bunch of other places that won't eat your soul.
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Reason for Declining
WORST COMPANY EVER. NEVER WORK HERE. Seriously. You're better off working ANYWHERE else.
Other Details
I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview and a Personality Test.
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Sales Representative at Stryker
Posted May 15, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2011 (took a day)
I walked into the interview and was greeted by 2 sales managers. The recruiter thought it was for a stryker orthopedic position, but he was not properly informed. The position was actually for a capital equipment sales rep, the two managers informed me of this and were very kind and understanding about the situation.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Engineering at Stryker
Posted May 11, 2011
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2010 (took 2 months)
Phone interview was quick and the interviewer was very friendly. It consisted of basic questions regarding my background. The panel interview was conducted by friendly individuals. Overall good experience.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.
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Sales Associate at Stryker
Posted Apr 25, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2010 in Cleveland, OH (took 4+ weeks)
The interviewing process was somewhat difficult do to the fact of the testing procedure. It was a personality test and they were looking for type A personality people.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a Personality Test.
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Project Manager at Stryker
Posted Apr 22, 2011
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2009 (took 1 week)
Company uses outside company (Gallop) for personality test and rejects candidates who do not fit in company's "culture". Looking at this process closely AFTER getting hired, I have realized that this is Stryker's way of hiring most of main-stream white native born candidates for management to get around EEO rules. Most of lower ranks are almost 95% minorities to make up for the over all numbers for EEO.
Company has found a loophole by implementing a personality test and shifting the yes/no decision to the third party. In reality, internal HR gives "hints" to the agency on who they want to hire.
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Other Details
I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Personality Test and a Background Check.
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Director of Product Management at Stryker
Posted Apr 22, 2011
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2011 in Portage, MI (took 3 weeks)
Pursued referral once I identified the position was open. Phone interview/screening with HR (30 min)...learned there we no internal candidates involved and there had been some interviews already, but for one reason or another no offers were made; one week later, phone interview with hiring manager (1 hr); same week, personality (Gallup) phone interview (2 hrs); heard from HR that next step was an on-site interview and began picking dates. Took over a week to hear back from HR...learned that a candidate had apparently already made it to on-site interviews BEFORE they talked with me in the first place, and they were making him an offer. Bummer. Overall, a good experience, since it's helpful to get challenged on what you know and what you've accomplished. Nice preparation for the next interview somewhere else!
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a Personality Test.
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Human Resources Director at Stryker
Posted Apr 21, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2011 (took 3 weeks)
Gallup is an important part of their interviewing process, however of late the company seems to be abusing it or may be unclear on how to handle it. The company probably saw some merit in this a few years ago when they started but with time this appears to have lost its purpose and is done just as a part of their global mandate. I was contacted by a search partner for the above mentioned position,but he set a call to do a mock gallup interview (he even advised me to visit the site and read up on possible questions - tcompletely defeats the intent with Gallup was concieved) The company apparently takes great pride in being percieved as an aggressive work place and it was easy for me to fake responses. The search partner polished some of my answers and set me up for the gallup interview. I got a call as per the schedule(from Singapore) which lasted for about 2 hours.Most of the questions were a repeat from the mock telecall and my responses were practised. A few days later I was told by the recruiter that I cleared the gallup and my candidature will progress to the next level. I was not surprised but I realized this was not the kind of workplace I could see myself in - a bunch of overaggressive employees is not my idea of ideal workplace. The search partner however insisted on my completing the next steps since I cleared Gallup. I decided to go along. After a bit of to and fro the telephonic interview with the India MD who was in the US for work was fixed. Surprise Surprise....it appeared to me that they probably did not bother to go thru my profile even once before putting me up for Gallup...he asked some basic questions...realized I did not have too much of experience in handling sales force .....I realized he was not too keen on knowing much beyond basics...and the call was over in 15 minutes. I think they should have started with this basic call and filtered candidates befor subjecting them to Gallup...I felt my time was wasted in the whole process.Such senior mandates must be handled with a more professional approach than in a frivulous manner....or may be the search partner was not clear on what the company really wanted to start with. Overall pathetic experience !
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a Personality Test.
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Engineer at Stryker
Posted Apr 19, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2011 in Dallas, TX (took a day)
It was a one on one interview on campus with a recuiter, she asked me a series of questions from a sheet of paper. Simple behavoir questions she was not easy to talk to and didn't seem to really care. At the end she said " ok if you don't have any questions we are done here and you will hear from us thanks for coming, GOOD BYE"
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Manufacturing Engineer at Stryker
Posted Apr 2, 2011 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2011 in San Jose, CA (took 3 weeks)
I initially applied through CareerBuilder.com and immediately had to fill out a personality questionnaire before the application can be officially processed. The HR contacted me soon after about a manufacturing engineering position, asked me a few questions about my work experience and some situational questions. Following the HR phone interview I was told that I would have to pass a Gallup assessment phone interview scheduled a week later. The questions were simple to answer, all situational. Ex. are you an aggressive personality? How do you define a person with common sense? I passed the test and a few days after was invited for an onsite interview. The onsite interview consisted of short 30 min interviews with a broad range of managers and engineers, I had a total of 11 people with whom I interviewed. The interview itself was very nice, informative and gave Stryker a great working place sense. Lots of advancement within the company is offered and the people seem great. By the way, the average age of the employees is upper 20's lower 30's. The job is very interesting, challenging and rewarding. Lots of helpful and nice people work here, it seems. Work culture seems very team oriented, from first glance, although I did read other reviews that state the opposite. Seems like a great place to work, but relocation, cost of living and the pay itself are factors that should be considered.
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Reason for Declining
Still deciding between offers of Stryker and other companies.
Other Details
I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Personality Test.
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Financial Analyst at Stryker
Posted Apr 1, 2011
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2011 (took a day)
Stryker only hires Type A personalities -- and this has to be proven from your undergrad GPA and why you chose your major to your history of promotions, even if it was 8 years ago. I was also asked what organizations I was in and how many hours I worked during undergrad during the screening.
It took about a month for the interviewer to get in touch with me after resume submission. I'm also aware that the Gallup personality tests are still being used to screen. I did not progress to the next step, as there was some concern over decisions I made as an undergrad.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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