I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Stryker in May 2017
Interview
The whole process was pretty lengthy and definitely thorough. I was approached on LinkedIn by a recruitment consultant and a preliminary phone conversation was scheduled. Following this my CV was sent to HR and a more detailed 1-hour phone interview was arranged with a Stryker recruitment specialist. During this interview I gave a roughly 20-minute overview of my experience and then went through a Gallup-style series of questions. The questions seem bizarre but they ensure that the right people are hired and that the Stryker culture is compatible with your personality/ethos. I then had an hour-long interview with the hiring managers. This was fairly standard format; they wanted to hear about my experience, probed my technical knowledge in more detail and fired off those classic competency-based interview questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about a time when you made the wrong decision. What actions did you take after this and what was the outcome?
Interview in an informal setting - followed by an invitation to apply for a specific role and completing the gallop personality assessment tool.
The Gallop is a major criteria for stryker and you will be cut from the hiring process if you do not fit the mold they're looking for.
After talking to the recruiter and the hiring manager - both conversations went very smoothly, not challenging, hiring manager very friendly - I got ghosted. Waiting for 2 weeks and then receiving an automatic rejection email, the one being sent to anyone who sends CV and gets rejected. No feedback, nothing. Never again.
HR recruiter didn't bother to read my resume for the screening call - assumed I had experience with the same product/market and started off with a question unrelated to what was on my resume. Also they use the US HR headquarters to interview Canadian candidates so they won't bother to screen you properly based on your local experience. Waste of my time and reflects poorly on a large company that can't hire a senior HR recruiter to do their one and only job to review a resume.
