Arthrex Reviews

Employees hired on own accord (not brought in by someone already employed there) have a very hard time trying to advance and find growth opportunities at Arthrex. Advancement is based on "who you know" and if you are a part of the "in crowd." Existing employees are all but ignored, not given proper training or opportunities to learn. The senior management team is engrossed in their own selfish goals and could care less about the other areas of the organization. There is absolutely no communication across the departments - most are left to work in a "one day at a time" mentality. The company does make an effort to communicate the fundraising efforts and external trade-shows, medical education events in "employee newsletters." If the company placed as much effort on the internal operations, as they do on their external efforts, it may help to minimize the ever-increasing frustration levels of the current employees. This company uses the "band-aid" approach to fix its issues, rather than take corrective measures to properly train people. Then, they hire more people to add to the current mess. This creates the "blind leading the blind" mentality. So, it is the "snowball effect" at Arthrex. A lack of organization weakens the collaborative effort needed to have an efficient employee development plan. The result is a company that is unable to maintain essential employee job skills. There is also an inability to upgrade the staff's skill set, which degrades the ability of the company to stay competitive in the marketplace.

Naples Florida is one the retirement capitals of the world. With an average age of 66 some say it's where old folks go to pass on. Unironically, Arthrex is also where tech careers go to die. The pay is so far below market value I'm shocked that any competent software engineers still work here. On the various software teams you'll find a mix of individuals who either have subpar skills with no other options or just happen to be local and haven't built up the drive to look for something better. With most tech companies now offering remote, the remaining competent employees have started to abandon ship with increasing frequency. Awful total compensation. Despite its tremendous growth and the owner's wealth growing by billions the average Arthrex employee will not see a penny of it. Being privately held there are no stock options and the only other form of compensation is an at most 10% bonus. I really want to reiterate this - regardless of how well Arthrex performs you will not see a penny of it. Your bonus will be exactly the same percentage in 5 years as it is today. Remember this when the owner of the company is talking about how amazing it is to be a private company and tries to tell you "you're family". No matter how many times they say it to you, you are not family - you are an employee. HR recently sent out an email bragging about "its generous benefits package that includes PTO". I kid you not that was the entire sentence. Really amazing if you're comparing the benefits to a gas station employee’s benefits. Arthrex leadership despises remote workers and remote work in general. A recent communication from HR quite literally says employees are "more efficient and productive when at the workplace". Despite rising Covid-19 numbers Arthrex has forced their entire workforce back into the office. Workers returning to the office are subject to an entire list of restrictions such as the inability to use conference rooms and others that essentially invalidate the entire point of being at the office. With the company having recently updated their headquarters, spending in the 10s of millions of dollars, the general sentiment amongst employees is that the company's owner is desperate to see employees use his shiny new facility. Incompetent leadership. Amongst the software engineering leadership you'll find many individuals that rose up by virtue of coincidence. Essentially, being in the right place at the right time. You won't find anyone with any form of FAANG leadership experience or anything even remotely resembling it. There is absolutely no vision most of the time and when there is leadership can’t figure out how to execute on it. Buckle up for the series of yearly disasters including re-orgs and project priorities that come and go like the wind. Zero respect for employees. Ever see an entire mobile development team get assigned to developing React components indefinitely because it's "what's best for the company? How about new hires never getting the chance to work with the tech they were hired for? These are just a few examples where I've witnessed the company doing whatever it pleases regardless of the impact on its employees. Inconsequential work that provides little to no business value. In the best case scenario you will be working on a side project for some VP where you'll at least get your pick of the tech stack. In the worst case you will be working with ancient tech on the nearly impossible to replace monolithic corporate site. A large amount of office politics and bureaucracy. Arthrex has been described by many as a "mafia" like experience. Don't worry about burning bridges when you leave because management will load that metaphorical bridge up with dynamite and blow it before you even make it across. Finally, Arthrex is mandating all new employees (and sooner than later existing employees) be vaccinated and publicly display their vaccination status on their employee badge. Regardless of your thoughts on being vaccinated, I think most of us can appreciate the irony in a medical company that constantly talks about how important it is to keep protected health information (PHI) secure while requiring their employees to publicly display their PHI. Makes sense.