Vantaggi
Health benefits were great. Decent work environment on the production floor with good people. Stryker was a great opportunity to learn many different aspects of the medical industry.
Svantaggi
In the office/ management, people would prefer to step on your face and then ask why you were in their way versus work with you. Very little team cooperation. Very cut throat. The company speaks highly of employee engagement, but at the end of the day they will take your time, soul, and anything else you will give them. I found that I was putting in so many hours that my marriage and my health was being affected. Due to their upward mobility process you didn't often have the time to build any kind of relationship with your direct managers. And due to their unwavering belief in the Gallup profiling system you essentially would get management that saw every position as a stepping stone and not something that was worth their time and energy. Often times you would get a manager that was only in the position because they fit the personality profile Stryker has deemed acceptable for their management core and not necessarily someone who was a good fit. I knew many employees that would receive great reviews for many years and then everything would flip when a new manager would take over.