Pros
Stable company year over year growth. It's extremely unlikely you'll experience lay-offs or loss of employment as a result of poor performance. It's nearly impossible to get fired at Arthrex. I've witnessed individuals do little to no work for years on end without consequence. If you've ever heard about getting "pipped" or stack ranking at places like AWS, Arthrex is the extreme opposite of that. There's literally nothing you can do to get fired once you're in - short of cussing out your manager or streaking through the hallways.
Cons
Naples Florida is one the retirement capitals of the world. With an average age of 66 some say it's where old folks go to pass on. Unironically, Arthrex is also where tech careers go to die. The pay is so far below market value I'm shocked that any competent software engineers still work here. On the various software teams you'll find a mix of individuals who either have subpar skills with no other options or just happen to be local and haven't built up the drive to look for something better. With most tech companies now offering remote, the remaining competent employees have started to abandon ship with increasing frequency. Awful total compensation. Despite its tremendous growth and the owner's wealth growing by billions the average Arthrex employee will not see a penny of it. Being privately held there are no stock options and the only other form of compensation is an at most 10% bonus. I really want to reiterate this - regardless of how well Arthrex performs you will not see a penny of it. Your bonus will be exactly the same percentage in 5 years as it is today. Remember this when the owner of the company is talking about how amazing it is to be a private company and tries to tell you "you're family". No matter how many times they say it to you, you are not family - you are an employee. HR recently sent out an email bragging about "its generous benefits package that includes PTO". I kid you not that was the entire sentence. Really amazing if you're comparing the benefits to a gas station employee’s benefits. Arthrex leadership despises remote workers and remote work in general. A recent communication from HR quite literally says employees are "more efficient and productive when at the workplace". Despite rising Covid-19 numbers Arthrex has forced their entire workforce back into the office. Workers returning to the office are subject to an entire list of restrictions such as the inability to use conference rooms and others that essentially invalidate the entire point of being at the office. With the company having recently updated their headquarters, spending in the 10s of millions of dollars, the general sentiment amongst employees is that the company's owner is desperate to see employees use his shiny new facility. Incompetent leadership. Amongst the software engineering leadership you'll find many individuals that rose up by virtue of coincidence. Essentially, being in the right place at the right time. You won't find anyone with any form of FAANG leadership experience or anything even remotely resembling it. There is absolutely no vision most of the time and when there is leadership can’t figure out how to execute on it. Buckle up for the series of yearly disasters including re-orgs and project priorities that come and go like the wind. Zero respect for employees. Ever see an entire mobile development team get assigned to developing React components indefinitely because it's "what's best for the company? How about new hires never getting the chance to work with the tech they were hired for? These are just a few examples where I've witnessed the company doing whatever it pleases regardless of the impact on its employees. Inconsequential work that provides little to no business value. In the best case scenario you will be working on a side project for some VP where you'll at least get your pick of the tech stack. In the worst case you will be working with ancient tech on the nearly impossible to replace monolithic corporate site. A large amount of office politics and bureaucracy. Arthrex has been described by many as a "mafia" like experience. Don't worry about burning bridges when you leave because management will load that metaphorical bridge up with dynamite and blow it before you even make it across. Finally, Arthrex is mandating all new employees (and sooner than later existing employees) be vaccinated and publicly display their vaccination status on their employee badge. Regardless of your thoughts on being vaccinated, I think most of us can appreciate the irony in a medical company that constantly talks about how important it is to keep protected health information (PHI) secure while requiring their employees to publicly display their PHI. Makes sense.