STERIS Reviews

Former Employee – worked at STERIS

Pros – STERIS is a growing company in an emerging field that offers many opportunities for personal development while maintaining the security of a large organization. The FDA regulated environment is a highly marketable skill. The offices are located in potentially overlooked cities, but this yields a greater opportunity to stretch a salary while still enjoying the benefits of establish communities.

Cons – STERIS has yet to evolve into a cohesive company. While it 20 years old, it does not act like an established company in many respects, and lacks infrastructure to support running efficiently. The different locations each have different cultures, and act like the companies they were before STERIS purchased them. Employees will still complain and say the old days were better, or corporate has no idea how to run things, and only care about the stock price. Recent changes in upper management have contributed to a culture where no one is sure what will happen next, and while the changes may be positive and solve some of the above problems, it is difficult in a tough economy to wait and see, and this can cause the best employees to find jobs elsewhere, and the ones with less marketable skills to remain.

Advice to Senior Management – Address underlying differences in the culture between locations. Explain changes more effectively, through honest communications of good and bad results direct to th employees. Don't compare the company's benefits to only old style rust-belt manufacturers, or modern medical companies, as neither is an exact match. Recruit past the stereotypes of the locations, and make people want to join the company for positive reasons, not just because they're unemployed from a downsizing.

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

Pros – Very friendly environment
No work pressure
Cool atmosphere
Good Salary
No Politics

Cons – Not that much challenging projects as most them are for the internal system

Advice to Senior Management – Management is really nice and having a good attitude to employees so I really loved working with STERIS

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

Former Employee – worked at STERIS full-time

Pros – The company has its good points. Their cafeteria is pretty good and they have a nice exercise room. Nothing like what you'd get in a real gym, of course, but it's something and it's free. I also sensed that some higher ups were trying to create a good working environment.

Cons – The morale wasn't very high and the pay was far below industry standards. I also sensed that many of the people I worked with were pretty much going through the motions, not taking a great deal of pleasure in their work. I could quickly tell that I wouldn't want to make a long-term career there.

I did wind up staying there much longer than I really wanted to though, out of loyalty to my co-workers. Shortly after I decided to move on, I was able to land a job with higher pay and a happier work environment. I also found out that several acquaintances and former co-workers had worked for STERIS before, and that they weren't thrilled with the place.

Ultimately, I'm not about to say that you shouldn't work at STERIS. Like I said, it does have some good points and some good people. Still, I'd encourage jobseekers to keep looking unless they REALLY have to get something immediately.

Advice to Senior Management – Good job with trying to provide certain perks. I think that better pay and more workplace flexibility would help people be more content and more productive.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at STERIS full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – good company to bet some experience

Cons – extremely poor management, very top down management style. Very poor ideas, and horrible, premature execution and implementation of projects and products. Substantial employee turn over, poor morale.

Advice to Senior Management – work from the grassroots and cut the clutter and roadblocks..... let the techs on the ground do their job.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at STERIS full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Able to set work schedules. Ability to purchase tools and supplies as needed. Get to work for some fantastic customers and contractors. Paycheck usually comes.

Cons – After my first manager all other managers were very poor ow their jobs. We were not given enough time to complete jobs and were punished for working overtime.
Very cliquey new hires are not qualified. Company uses gps to track technicians. Micro management is the norm. Low pay and no respect for field service group. High turnover. Poor quality. Electronics are made in china if one device out of one hundred works they make a tidy profit. The it and programmers are incompetent
It may take 30 revisions to get a program that almost works. It support is non existent beyond rebooting your machineThis company is a brown nosers dream. Insurance not that comprehensive.

Advice to Senior Management – Lower your bonuses. Improve quality. Hire qualified individuals. Restore some perks the field had taken from them.

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

Former Employee – worked at STERIS

Pros – Easy to excel
Good pay for performers
Low expectations

If you're willing to go the extra mile you'll get promoted pretty quickly and be given more responsibilities. The problem is that Steris doesn't hire additional people when work gets overwhelming, so take on extra work at your own risk.

Cons – Low motivation
Poor morale
A lot of complacent employees

Little to no career advancement opportunities and "leadership" is to the point where everyone is able to just get by doing the very minimum. There are some great people in great positions but there is an ineptitude in middle management that just brings the organization down.

Advice to Senior Management – Trim some layers from Director level and above, start investing in leadership.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at STERIS as a contractor for less than a year

Pros – Has lots of technology
Has a stronghold in Healthcare
It has a global presence
Not afraid to spend money
New headquarters looks great.

Cons – Many employees seemed pretty rude
Lots of bad office politics take place in the IT department
Outsources to India
Uses lots of H-1B visas
Moved Plants to Mexico.
Has no real corporate identity, its a shame, i was really suprised by the chaos.
Management was a let down.
Doesn't value domestic talent. Saving a buck and getting sub-par work is good enough.

Advice to Senior Management – Hire some decent Full-time programmers who know how to build enterprise applications.
Think about getting a younger management team, with new ideas.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at STERIS full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – - i can organize my daily work by my own also the coverage and visits at customers can be organized by my own
- of course i get a company car, mobile phone, computer etc. (these are normal things which will also provided by other companies if you are enploeed there, so nothing special to announce)

Cons – - Management just looks on revenue
- Wrong deccisions are made in developing market strategies
- Customers needs and recommendations are not recognized in the right way
- Some Managers have to bee educated more in realizing the way how the customer is thinking and which reaction of the customer is meaning what (interaction of saying and meaning)
- Development of new products is made by wrong peoples under wrong conclusions, mostly a development does not match the requirements of the customer needs. Most important goal is to reduce cost by growing the revenue but not to grow the customers satisfaction
- too much "very important people" in leading positions, some of them are just important in their own eyes
- product improvement is done to late and not related to customers requirement
- overall you must get the impression that only the shareholders interests are in focus but not the customer need

Advice to Senior Management – what shall i say if i must have to feeling that my thoughts are not welcome ore not recognized

– I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at STERIS

Pros – Good technology
Great service organization
Market leader
Great brand recognition
Very broad product line
Wide range of supply items to support equipment sale
Full benefits package and travel expenses paid

Cons – Territories to large
To many sales reps calling on the same accounts
To worried about what the competition is doing.
Some products have reached market life and should go.
Skin care soaps are old school. Need new ones

Advice to Senior Management – Stop worrying about what the competition is doing. Go back to asking the customers what they need or want.
Stop getting rid or the seasoned reps once they reach 50. Loosing the knowledge base
If the territories were smaller a rep could focus more on key accounts.
The board should get someone with some charisma to motivate the sales force. Current top is not in touch what is needed and they need some new ideas.

Current Employee – been working at STERIS

Pros – Freedom to do your job without corporate politics

Cons – Low entry pay, then promissed raises were not delivered. Was told that home office would not allow it.

Forced to use all vacation before being paid any sick leave.

Advice to Senior Management – Do not low ball a tech to get him on board and then expect him to stay if you don't deliver on promised improvements.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend