Starkey reviews

3.4

61% would recommend to a friend

(443 total reviews)
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Brandon Sawalich

45% approve of CEO

39% positive business outlook

Starkey has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 443 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Starkey employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.5 stars).

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443 reviews
2.0
Sep 10, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

1) Starkey goes above and beyond to show that they care about their customers 2) Plenty of excitement and yelling 3) Work life balance is preached 4) Management sets clear goals 5) Campus is well maintained and aesthetically pleasing 6) Very good place to make strong friendships within your department 7) Dean makes a great grilled Chicken Caesar Salad

Cons

1) They could actually care less about their customers business' in the big picture 2) All the excitement and yelling comes from a small group of individuals who think the sales floor is an NFL locker room 3) Work life balance really only matters if it's convenient. Customer classes and other events all take precedent. Was personally told I could not attend a friend's wedding due to a customer class. Later saw someone in middle management leave the same customer class to attend a friends wedding. 4) Goals are unattainable and non-negotiable 5) Very little time to enjoy campus as you'll need to be at/around your phone 6) Each and every department is shrinking as they are in cost saving mode from the continual lawsuits 7) Promotions are awarded more on tenure and being a 'yes man' than they are actual success 8) Management has no issue lying directly to employee's 9) Strategic decisions are hamstrung as they are being made by individuals so remarkably out of touch with reality

1.0
Aug 30, 2018

Engineers Stay away

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

PTO is nice but hard to use based on manager.

Cons

You need to know someone to get promoted. Salary base pay is such a joke, "Market value". Way below industry average, I have no idea where HR gets their average from. The company is in cost savings mode - some benefit programs were cut, and few groups of people were laid off, without a notice. Executive turnover is frustrating - Benefits were redone and CHr left. Benefits are very sub-par.Except PTO Work life balance doesn't exist - CTO makes a lot of promises and dates do not change. Honestly it is embarrassing working for this company with all the recent news/ bad publicity. Look up Forbes article about Starkey Hearing Technologies. Owner is distant from company.

1.0
Jul 31, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good vacation time if you're actually a Starkey employee. If you "work" for Starkey as a Northland employee enjoy never taking a day off.

Cons

Management keeps secrets, lies to employees, and doesn't work towards any real progress. Deep seated misogynistic values all the way up to the top.

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