Integra LifeSciences Reviews

I have been working at Integra LifeSciences full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Pay is competitive. Not a lot of voluntary turn over. Bagels and Starbucks if you work in Plainsboro.

Cons – Hard work is rewarded with more work. Stress rides high and morale is down. More director level positions and vice presidents than necessary.

Advice to Senior Management – Focus less on discussing and more on doing. There are great ideas brought forth that never make it past the stage of idea.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at Integra LifeSciences full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Free bagels and free Starbucks coffee

Cons – Brutal and one sided views. Clubs, clicks, high school drama. No process or procedures. Batch record nightmares. Tap water from garden house used in clean rooms, why? Metal shavings. Impossible to drive change. Mentally and physically abusive. Unstable, long hours, old broken and fixed with chewing gum manufacturing equipment. Production management in manufacturing is clueless. I dunno is most popular statement. Abrasive and one sided blinded views from senior management. Insane and unrealistic working conditions that requires off hours and weekends without advanced notice. It's a complete mess and unorganized without leadership. The ones who get it and try to change horrible culture get abused and lynch mobbed. You can't disagree or attempt to change things. Refusal to learn or try new things. You have to be insane or desperate to work at INTEGRA.

Advice to Senior Management – Help the few ones that actually get it be heard and not be abused for challenging the ones that are clueless. QA is the most lost and confused, but first to point fingers. Production is a mess and lack of leadership. Listen to the few that get it, but are not allowed to call them out.

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

I worked at Integra LifeSciences as a contractor for less than a year

Pros – Beautiful location, residential and farmland. Contract salary was good. New buildings/offices, good people, free assortment of teas and coffee including Starbucks. Fresh variety of bagels on Fridays.

Cons – Senior management is questionable. In my second week of employment, I was brought into a meeting with a Senior Director and VP, it was myself and a college intern. We were told the place was a mess and it was our responsibility to fix it. I found this amusingly absurd. There was 1 other planner in the group. All others had been fired or quit due to the horrendous workload and lack of direction or constant direction changes. All planning was done on Excel spreadsheets, leaving a tremendous amount of room for human error.

Advice to Senior Management – n/a

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

I have been working at Integra LifeSciences full-time for more than a year

Pros – Great work life balance
Great exposure to different levels of management
Everyone is very nice and approachable and friendly
Get to obtain great level of responsibility
Caring company overall

Cons – Average pay
Structure is improving but can be debated
Lot of people do not know of integra

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

I worked at Integra LifeSciences as a contractor for less than a year

Pros – This company makes some of the most interesting products, replacement body parts, e.g. knee and hip joints, spinal fusion kits. Dress code is casual and it seems that the employees enjoy a good work life balance.

Cons – Outrageously rude behavior is acceptable in this organization. Lots of little fiefdoms run by people whose only qualification is that they were with the company when it was small. Strong culture of this is how it's always been done, not interested in doing anything different.

Advice to Senior Management – Just because an employee was around when the company was small doesn't mean that they're right for the evolving organization.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I worked at Integra LifeSciences full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Director level management believe in work-life balance.

Cons – Promotions are selected by a few key Executives.

Advice to Senior Management – Develop succession planning for employees verse hiring.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I worked at Integra LifeSciences

Pros – I learned a lot from people there. Everyone was friendly and helpful. I would certainly work there again if necessary.

Cons – I do not think it pays very well relative to other companies. Other than that, I don't think there were any obvious cons.

Advice to Senior Management – Pay people more

I have been working at Integra LifeSciences full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Team environment, and very hardworking. Rewarding to help supply emergency products to hospitals for patients in need.

Cons – Over-worked, under-paid, poor director-level leadership

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at Integra LifeSciences full-time

Pros – It's better than unemployment but only just

Cons – Unbeleivably awful management. This last lot is the worst i've seen. It's only about politics now. competency has gone out the window. There are at least 5 managers for every employee - all new. know nothing. we have never received one raise that even kept up with the cost of living. They talk down to the employees, mouthing tons of platitudes, it's demeaning and disrespectful. Unless you're a fav, you can kiss any promotion good bye.

Advice to Senior Management – Maybe if you worried at little less about the seating arrangements, quit wasting money on projects you have no intention of completing or worse still do over and over...........

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

I worked at Integra LifeSciences as an intern for less than a year

Pros – I had great bosses and the work was really awesome for when I was there. I learned a lot and was given a lot of responsibility. But this was before Seaspine, the company that I initially got hired at got bought out.

Cons – The engineering building is eeriely quiet

Advice to Senior Management – n/a

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend