Stryker Reviews

Pros

It's a great company to work for: great energy, good pressure, result-driven, a good place for young, ambitious individuals to start their career

Cons

So far there is none, the hours can be demanding sometimes, but if you want to achieve your goal and seriously develop yourself in terms of career and discipline, this is the right place

Advice to Senior Management

Nothing so far

Pros

There is a way to do things at Stryker. Most people are trained in it and are happy to do the work.

Cons

Sometimes, things seem to slow to move. There is a definite chain of command and needs to be followed at all times.

Advice to Senior Management

Sometimes, things seem to slow to move. There is a definite chain of command and needs to be followed at all times.

Pros

Stryker totes itself as being a great company and is a fortune 500. benefits aren't amazing but Ok. I don't care for the health insurance at all, but I suppose some places are worse. decent pay but not compared with what you do as a job.

Cons

No balance of home/work life. In any kind of management, you are expected to work 60-70hrs a week. Never given praise EVER and someone else above you will always take the kudos for your hard work done well, then push you to work harder. They hire loads of military who are trained to be treated badly and not care, but the average person WILL care! No recognition for accomplishments that would earn praise at other companies. They'll chew you up and spit you out.

Advice to Senior Management

The company has all these Gallup and Q12 things in place yet none of these are really used they way they are meant. Instead, you "go through the motions" of completing these things- but id Stryker management and HR would turn and actually FOLLOW the cutting edge thinking- start PRAISING employees and building them up, they would have happy workers who produced better results and had company loyalty. Instead. this company does the opposite.
HR- start listening to employees and get policies in place for when a manager is not making it possible for others under him/her to succeed.
you WANT the good guys with integrity working for you. Not the jerks who smash their employees continually until they can't get up.
 Expect you to live for nothing else, have no other life. Got a family? Who cares! Bring them to the picnic once a year as that's about all you'll see them.
I've seen many a good manager/person be "chased" out by managers higher than themselves.

Managers need to work to develop the people under them-even if they manage differently- for THIS is what makes a company great. Different thinking/perspectives made a team strong! Wake up!

A company continuing like this is headed for disaster regardless of how much growth they show right now.

Pros

Got to work with technically smart people.
Company focus on an individual's strengths rather than weakness.
Knows the value of a good team. Onsite Reporting Manager were quite understanding and reasonable.

Cons

A peer with same experience and expertise could be paid more depending on his bargaining skills. This leads to income disparity at the same level.

Pros

Stryker is a good place to begin your career. It's full of young, dynamic people (with lots of attitude - thanks to Gallup). It will, however, teach you the basics of surviving in Corporate America - and these are, no doubt, useful skills to have.

Cons

Initially, people are thrilled by the opportunity and dazzle and everything seems wonderful. However, very quickly, things start becoming drab and politics is what you need to be good at in order to survive (unless you don't mind being a subdued minion) - especially if you are in a technical field. In some divisions, technology is very aged (read 'decades behind') and the employees that you work with are old-fashioned in their manner of thinking and essentially 'stuck in time' (especially those in the Midwest).

Be wary about sticking it out for more than a couple of years (if you are in engineering). There is generally a large influx of young nationals and non-nationals that are here to work come hell or high water in order to quickly 'settle down/build a life' in the former case or to gain their permanent residency (in the US) in the latter. If you fall into one of these buckets and plan on giving it your all in smalltown America and at the first job you get out of school (without necessarily exploring your options or thinking about the future) by all means, stick around. However, if you plan on striking it out on your own and joining a top company to actually advance your career, you'll rudely and sadly realize that you've been 'stuck in a well' and have spent most your time politicking rather than building your engineering skills. With all due respect, the 'engineering' done in certain divisions is so far below industry-standard that it's impossible for you to bridge the gap once you're out in the 'real world'. Don't let all the hype that you're around 'super stars' fool you. It doesn't help that most managers are not technical and that they hardly understand - let alone appreciate good engineering.

Advice to Senior Management

Get competent technical managers who are knowledgeable and passionate about technology. Don't appoint some young, gung-ho person who has a managerial degree and expect them to create magic in a day. Learn from the best companies in the world about how engineers should be managed. Get into real engineering! Realize that the technology in use is sometimes very dated and there is no long-term future in consistently patching together shoddy solutions. In the long-run, where is Stryker really headed? Band-aided products can only bring so much success.

Pros

cash rich company can pay

Cons

Supposedly a MNC, but run as a Lala company very good at hiring n firing

Advice to Senior Management

find out whats happening within the organisation through employees not top managment

Pros

Great benefits, opportunities is you want to go into sales

Cons

People at Stryker 'do' before they think, you will work long hours-win awards, and not get compensated or promoted

Advice to Senior Management

If you want to keep talent then you have to start rewarding the achievers

Pros

- great compensation
- take on a great portfolio
- lot of responsibility
- exciting industry
-market leader
-younf, fun environment

Cons

- if you don't want to go into sales, there is no career path
- managers are more concerned with moving into a regional sales position than training their staff

Advice to Senior Management

spend more time with your marketing associates to train them and take a sincere interest in their future. Begin to establish a career path for marketing individuals rather than have a 2 year in 2 year out program.

Pros

Stryker is filled with smart, motivated people. The company is very young in that many of the employees are between the ages of 22 and 32. Those that are older are still as fun and as active as the younger crowd. Team building is highly encouraged and offsites are a common activity. Stryker is filled with people that exercise and stay fit, so there are many activities to be involved in that way as well. Stryker makes meaningful products which also motivates workers to create high quality products.

Cons

Stryker is known to pay lower than most competitor companies. While they encourage a balanced life, work can be stressful at times as employees are pushed to make tight deadlines on time.

Pros

Recognition and award are there for people working well.

Cons

Sometime you end up working more than 12 hours a day.

Advice to Senior Management

Give more liberty to people to work from home.