Pre-2009 - The culture was perfect, where you had a sense of purpose, and everyone pulled together with great respect toward one another.Once Lean was adopted, the culture started to deteriorate. Although efficiency got better regarding meeting customer demands. However, the true issue is that Continuous Improvement and the "True North" journey are truly about the respect of the people. Respect for people is the key to a lean-driven culture! That was lost when respecting employees and giving them a sense of value diminished. That is not the true spirit of the Lean World. Management made it about the numbers and their spreadsheets and forgot about the true value of their people.The development was great for a bit. But it truly depended on if you were in the right clique. I was given opportunities to grow. That I am thankful for and always will be. But management acted like managers and not true leaders. There is a difference between managing and leading. The most respectful thing KS management can do is learn to be leaders."A bad system will beat a good person every time.”–W. Edwards Deming. Cteam - Listen to the people, respect the people, learn to have empathy. Get out of the mentality of blaming, you have lost too many great valuable employees. There are many organizations waiting for KS employees...They are valued and can offer a lot to the world. Thank you for allowing me to learn how not to be classified as "Management" and how to lack empathy. “Leadership is not so much about technique and methods as it is about opening the heart. Leadership is -

Pros

Years of learning what not to do as a leader., The production folks, benefits. Leaders that I met.

Cons

Micromanaging, inconsistency, strict policies, lack of growth

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Good Company Horrible Management

Case Manager (Former Employee) - El Segundo, CA - May 7, 2022

Silo environment. Sales staff allowed to disrespect staff and management never addresses. Non management staff wants to dictate while managers pretend to not see nor hear. The case management supervisor was terrible

Pros

Salary bonuses

Cons

Everything else

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KARL STORZ insights

Based on 108 survey responses

What people like

Ability to meet personal goals

Areas for improvement

Support from manager
Sense of belonging
General feeling of work happiness

Great Company

Onsite Endoscopic Specialist (Former Employee) - New Haven, CT - April 7, 2022

Great company ..They really care about there employees ..Great benefits Awesome balance of personal life Many Opportunities to growAwesome Management

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This is the best company I have ever worked for!

Regional Manager (Current Employee) - Remote - January 21, 2022

Incredible culture, fast paced positive atmosphere. Truly it is like working for your family and want to put your best foot forward because they take such good care of their employees. You want to do your best for them to contribute the success and positive culture. You will never be sorry you took a chance to come work here.

Pros

Great benefits, great culture, flexibility, vacation, people!

Cons

None

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Great Place to Work

Operations Manager (Former Employee) - Auburn, MA - January 13, 2022

Karl Storz Endoscopy America is a great place to work. They have amazing benefits, very supportive management, growth opportunities - like to promote from within, one of the best work cultures. You definitely feel appreciated. Many employee lunches, fun events, bonuses, etc...

Pros

Work environment & culture

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Good people, Good purpose.

Marketing Manager (Current Employee) - El Segundo, CA - December 6, 2021

The people make KARL STORZ what it is. I can trust my co-workers, we have fun, we look out for each other and we all work hard. My management is excellent, inclusive and fair, although it may vary by department.It's nice to know your work has a real effect on someone (a patient) at the end of the day, rather than working on some garbage consumer technology that is just filling up landfills on the planet and polluting our environment.

Pros

People, Pay, Benefits, Purpose

Cons

Long Hours... you have to pace yourself and know when to say no.

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Ok

Buyer (Former Employee) - Southbridge, MA - October 18, 2021

It was OK. Very corporate but lots of opportunities to develop skills and move into other positions. PTO, benefits and work life balance were great. Successful company with good job security.

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Good Company, Lots of overtime, Company will not hire more people to reduce backlogs

Technician (Former Employee) - Charlton, MA - September 9, 2021

You better like working every mandatory Saturday, if not you will be charged sick time. Upper management is paranoiac of loosing their jobs and push people creating a cut throat environment. This causes quality issues especially when people rush building medical equipment. Cutting corners to hit production numbers is not the way to go.

Pros

Good Benefits, Good PTO

Cons

Too much overtime, no time for family

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Culture is toxic and emotionally unstable

Unknown (Former Employee) - Charlton, MA - July 27, 2021

There is a clique in upper management and the C- team is dysfunctional. Reach out to former employees to receive the truth. Ask why long tenure employees left!

Pros

Benefits and the assemblers

Cons

Lack of growth, narcissistic bullying, threats, public humiliation, email humiliation, lack of respect for the most important people, lack of consistency with HR, silent bullying, threats

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Love it here

Associate (Current Employee) - Auburn, MA - April 1, 2021

In the logistics field this exceeds competitors. sensitive to employee's needs. great culture that promotes collaboration. Hard to find another company in the warehousing industry that offers comparable benefits.

Pros

benefits

Cons

behind the times with Tech

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It was a family oriented company

Sales Associate (Current Employee) - Stafford, TX - March 12, 2021

There is no work life balance! You are literally always on call, due to unreliable product. This company used to be very family oriented and pleasant to work for.

Pros

Great benefits

Cons

No work, life balance.

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Hard work, decent pay

Sales (Former Employee) - Tennessee - February 18, 2021

Expect to work hard, pay can vary from year to year. You won’t be on call, but you will feel like you are.. the training program is really good, but expect the comp plan to change from one year to the next

Pros

Great products

Cons

Comp

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Bad management and micromanaging employees

Evaluator (Former Employee) - Charlton, MA - December 5, 2020

When I began working for KARL STORZ it was an amazing company. However, things went downhill around 2018 and management had completely changed within the company. Supervisors micromanage, but somehow are not available when you need help with something or have a question. The only pro to working there is good benefits. The pay is not enough for the amount of work you do and the constant overtime that is required. You're going to be required to do things that should be done by your supervisor. Lastly, if you're looking to learn more so you can be promoted, its most likely not going to happen. They promise for years they will cross train you. Only cross train you partially, and then say you need it all to be promoted and will expect you to work on what you were partially trained to do.

Pros

Good benefits

Cons

Micromanage, overtime, bad pay

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Bad management and micromanaging employees

Evaluator (Former Employee) - Charlton, MA - December 5, 2020

Pros

Good benefits

Cons

Micromanage, overtime, bad pay

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Not a well ran operation in Auburn

Shipper (Former Employee) - Auburn, MA - November 25, 2020

There are great benefits with this company. The work is not hard. I feel the management needs to be more experienced and professional. They hire a lot within which is good although they have a lot to learn when it comes to safety and well being of their employees. They are big on talking about "One team one roof" but the disrespectful way that management belittles their employees is not working as a team but more working for a dictatorship. If you have a mind of your own don't work for them. They like robots that will go along with their lies and the picture they want to paint. Not the reality of the workplace.

Pros

Good benefits

Cons

Poor leadership and HR team

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Could Be Great

Associate (Current Employee) - Auburn, MA - November 19, 2020

My time here has been alright. The benefits are nice. 3 weeks time off when you start, which goes up a week every 5 years. Free coffee, nice breakroom. They have an open market in case you forget your lunch. No great work/life balance. Constant changes to overtime and schedule with hardly any advance notice.I would say this place could be great, but the management team is pretty awful. They don't do anything until things get real bad, then they sort of slap a bandaid on the problem and hope its enough.

Pros

Benefits and PTO

Cons

Management is terrible

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Micro managed to a fault.

Associate (Current Employee) - Charlton, MA - November 18, 2020

Work-life balanceWork-life balance at Karl Storz is average. Forced overtime us expected to reach a goal.Pay & benefitsMy pay and benefits at Karl Storz are average. No raises and no yearly incentive bonus.Job security and advancementIn terms of job security at Karl Storz, I think everyone is replaceable.ManagementIn general, managers at Karl Storz treat their employees like children. They is no trust. Everything is dictated.CultureCollaboration with my colleagues at Karl Storz is average.OverallMy experience working at Karl Storz has been like a roller coaster of repeated failures.

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Sales Executive (Former Employee) - Delhi - September 15, 2020

Good organization with good colleagues and the organization is great to learn technically and peraonally.Good organization for experienced candidates rather than freshers.

Pros

Technical knowledge

Cons

Salary

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Benefits

Cash Application Specialist (Former Employee) - El Segundo, CA - September 9, 2020

Karl Storz has excellent benefits. You start out with 3 weeks of vacation time. Medical, dental, vision, 401k, and yearly bonuses were the perks with this company.

Pros

Benefits, free coffee, free juice, weekly fruit, and nice lunch room.

Cons

The management and HR department

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Great place to work

Machine Operator and Assembler (Former Employee) - Charlton, MA - August 18, 2020

Good review and continued improvement. Was proud to work at Karl Storz. Nice employees,Managers, good benefits and clean place. Thank you so much. Done

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Good company

Logistics Center Associate II- Electro-mechanical Evaluations (Current Employee) - Auburn, MA - June 26, 2020

Good company to work for. The benefits are the high point. Great bonus and affordable health insurance. Paid time off is really great as well. Shifts are good hours.

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