Stratasys Employee Reviews about "israel"

Pros

Many talented individuals have left the company, and a few still remain. It was a pleasure working with them before the house of cards began to fall. The technology is revolutionary.

Cons

Lack of sound management. I was hired during a hiring boom in early 2015. At that time, the business had been experiencing a tremendous amount of year over year growth. It seemed they were staffing up to support this level of growth. Only a few months after starting, the business began to replace NA management with Israeli management, and this was the beginning of the fall. It became clear the new management team was going to do things their way. As time passed, Israeli management methods began to fail. Instead of reverting back to the methods that work, they doubled down on failed methods. Employees have watched this, and are leaving in droves. If management doesn't get replaced, or change tactics, the company may not be able to recover. One thing is certain, change is coming to Stratasys.

Pros

A local company; creator of the industry

Cons

The Israeli leadership of Objet runs both the US and IL businesses now. They are horrible business people and micro managers of everything. So many hurdles put in place for approvals that our company bills get paid months behind their due dates. Israeli seem to waste cash right and left, while penny pinching anything for the US. I have never seen a constant employee exodus like this before. Crazy. The new CEO will likely change nothing.

Pros

Can’t think of any in the pro column.

Cons

Terrible toxic culture. Heads down. Management outcasts need to be dealt with. Lack of organizational alignment and communication. My advice is do not work here. Period. You will regret. There is a forty percent turnover rate for many reasons and facts don’t exaggerate. You read that correctly - more than one in three people (smart people) leave. It is bad. Management is also aware of the poor culture, overworked people, and lack of resources but what do they do? I didn’t see any improvement actions. No food available in the building so they just schedule lunch meetings and order in catering - customers pay for their lunch. Israel leadership is scary unorganized to say the least. Emails all hours of the day, especially Sunday, limited to no work life balance. Everything is urgent, someone else’s fire to fight that then turns into nothing.

Pros

Fun 3D printing technology, good people in Eden Prairie offices, good customers, interesting applications. Long term good industry potential in both prototyping and manufacturing.

Cons

Big culture change in last 2 years. Run by Israeli management which is a command and control environment. Very challenging for people seeking a collaborative work environment.

Pros

Americas culture. Company allows you to be yourself

Cons

MN headquarters and Israel headquarter conflicts and political drama between the 2.

Pros

The industry is interesting. Stratasys used to be a leader in it but that's no longer the case

Cons

Management, management, management. The Israeli leadership team is just awful - there is no direction for the company, no communication to employees, no one knows what's going on anymore.

Pros

Awesome technology that was easy to sell to potential candidates. Liked working with brilliant people who were also nice.

Cons

There was a consistent lack of organization. No cohesive vision. Dual leadership from Israel and US made things hard to navigate.

Pros

Technology. Founder of the company is still there.. and he's very good and respectable.

Cons

Israeli leadership is all about giving their buddies jobs.. even if they aren't qualifiedg their buddies jobs.. even if they aren't qualifiedg their buddies jobs.. even if they aren't qualified for it. Controlling management that likes to inflate problems and then leave you with their mess to clean up. Lots of layers in the management.. if you want something done, you will have to go through multiple approval channels to get what you need. sometimes thats too late. SLOW to move projects forward. SLOW to bring products to market. Often they are developing machines/consumables that others have already brought to market. Unethical business practices. Very demanding and rude managers. HR is a total joke. Old boys club.. if you aren't a male, you won't move unless you know someone in management and are on their good side. Company actively moving jobs from the US to Israel. Acquisition of Makerbot would have been ok if it wasn't for the management who allowed the 5th generation of the Makerbot to be released with known defaults. Rather the fire the guy who was responsible, they promoted the individual. Its actions like this that should make you run as fast as you can from this sinking ship. The only way it will get better is if the board flushes out the bad management.. and that won't happen because guess what?? the board is stacked! Stacked with buddies and pals of the current israeli management.

Pros

Definitely a growth industry with incredible potential. Some of the recent acquisitions are positioning the company well.

Cons

The executive leaders in Israel are shortsighted and arrogant. A poor combination for good leaders. Rather than mitigate their inexperience at running a company of this size and accepting advice from subject matter experts within the company, the C Suite leaders continue to blunder their way to a 6 month 75% decrease in stock value.