Greatbatch Reviews

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

Pros – Pay is OK, but not great. People newer than you have it worse off. Vacation time, personal time is good.(That`s twenty words minimum)

Cons – Hostile environment with people that have been there so long they run the place. If one of them sees you as weak, they`ll get as many as possible on board to make your existence miserable. I realize, lesser skilled people will do this, but when the supervisor jumps on the bandwagon, you can count on being miserable. Back when we were privately owned, it was great. College boys stuffing their pockets has a great influence, I imagine. Ditto what the other reviewer had to say about the "bottom line", and listening to employees.

Advice to Senior Management – What management? Management is non-existent. They just hold meetings, and dream up new contests to win tickets to sporting events, or make you earn your so-called health insurance.

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

Former Employee – worked at Greatbatch full-time

Pros – Not much. Greatbatch is an American based company with domestic manufacturing. Their core strength is the pacemaker business and they have woefully tried to diversify themsleves from it.

Cons – Greatbatch is driven by an executive team which is focused on maximizing their compensation by disregarding the impact their decisions will have on their customers and employees. Their organization is a conglomeration of dissaparate entities which function poorly together. They close factories without any consideration of the implications it will have on their customers or employess for the sole sake of improving the bottom line. Their quality and delivery are suspect. Their management and sales team turnover is excessive due to poor leadership and short sighted behavior. Working here is a nightmarish scenario you should steer clear of.

Advice to Senior Management – Seek guidance from your customers and employees instead of making decisions in a vacuum based solely on financial considerations. Focus on your core competency and stop the diversification strategy.

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 Greatbatch

Pros – If you have a degree it may be great financially.

Cons – If you don't have a degree your just a work horse for pretty bad pay.

Advice to Senior Management – Care more about your employee's.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Greatbatch

Pros – satisfying product, good teamwork, nice co-workers

Cons – little advancement, few opportunities in WNY

Advice to Senior Management – better path for advancement for technical people

Former Employee – worked at Greatbatch

Pros – nice people and product to deliver

Cons – little room to move up. slow growth

Advice to Senior Management – none

Former Employee – worked at Greatbatch

Pros – Great group of People.
Cool Productions - chance to work on Medical Devices that really impact people's lives.
Leading edge technology.

Cons – The building and the location in Cleveland are not the best.
Team is split across to many locations to easily collaborate.

Advice to Senior Management – Move to a more modern building in a better area. Look into combining all 3 locations into a single location.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend