Awful Company - Anonymous employee Zimmer Biomet Employee Review

1.0
26 Jan 2021
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

You'll wear many hats giving a wide range of experience not gained with other employers in the same market space

Cons

ZB is a holding company that just happens to operate in the orthopaedic marketplace. The company is run by accountants and lawyers. You'll be underpaid relative to counterparts at other companies. Getting even the most simple things done is like trying to get a constitutional amendment passed. Your survivability relative to semiannual layoffs is essentially a game of musical chairs. There is legitimately little-to-no room for career growth and advancement opportunity. The high level performers are either let go or get frustrated and leave, while the few promotions that do happen go to the lazy, incompetent, and ineffectual and these promotions are due to the length of time served not accomplishments--this company is not a meritocracy. Warsaw employees will be paid dramatically more than you when you live in a major metropolitan area with a cost of living 2x to 3x that of the Warsaw, IN market. If you like working for the federal government, want the same level of red tape and idiocy, while not making a government employee pension, this is the place for you.

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Zimmer Biomet Response
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Thank you for your review, although we are sorry to hear of your ZB experience thus far. If you feel that something violates our companies' guiding principle "respecting the contributions and perspectives of team members," we encourage you to report these occurrences and discuss opportunities with your manager and/or HR business partner. It is with candid and constructive feedback that we can continue to improve and succeed as a company. While you are meeting with your manager and/or HR representative, we encourage team members to have conversations about career growth and opportunities, such as tuition reimbursement, utilization of the internal career portal and performance tools. After all, the responsibility to map out your career goals and development plan belongs to the individual and his/her manager. In the meantime, we hope to reassure you that our Total Rewards team continuously reviews our pay program to ensure team members are paid equitably in line with each location's cost of living and current market standards. We empower you to use your voice given the opportunity, such as the current total rewards survey.

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Thank you for taking the time to give us a your review, it is much appreciated!
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