Pros
The team I worked with at Starkey is phenomenal and incredibly hard working. They are dedicated to the cause, sometimes to a fault. In my tenure, I saw incredible innovations in technology and cannot recommend the product enough. Facilities have been updated and the campus is great. Benefits were mostly middle of the road. My experience with pay is to get as much as you can up front because you’ll never get more than a measly 3% “merit increase” because they “pay for performance”. I would question the validity of this statement.
Cons
Where do you begin? Expect to work tirelessly for essentially no recognition. If you’re looking to be viewed as a more than a cog, move on. Starkey isn’t looking for people; they just need people to do too much work too quickly with very little support or direction. This is evident as public launches were barely ready sometimes days before launch day. The marketing teams work incredibly hard but because of the current company structure and culture, everything is dreadfully last minute. There are bright spots in Starkey but they are completely tarnished by the lack of management and an ever-increasing workload. They don’t backfill after rounds and rounds of furloughs. Over the last several years when numbers were through the roof, the people doing the work were forgotten and opinions discarded. The only way to be heard is to get close to the right people or be related to them. Diversity and inclusion are meaningless at Starkey. Despite yearly surveys that are “anonymous”, nothing that is identified as an issue is ever addressed. I would caution any woman working there given the “performance” many of the women have shown the CEO to get where they are. At least three C-suite execs have had known relations with him and one of them is currently the head of HR. This is talked about a lot in circles throughout the company. Also, the CEO has an incredibly inflated sense of self. He has “security detail” as if he’s some big shot with people out to get him. He talks in circles and uses the same 8 buzzwords in every single talk; there is very little substance. Business ethics are not a thing at Starkey.