Pros
- Invest in training their employees - Job security in a company that does well financially - Liked the opportunity to move into different fields on your career path at Stryker (but I've heard that may not be the case as much any more)
Cons
- Minimal diversity of personality perspectives in their professionals as their hiring process screens out anyone not built like their top-tier successful people in terms of strengths (missing a lot of "people" strengths) - Due to missing "people" strengths in part, they drive their people hard - a lot of burn-out - Some teams are great with work-life integration, but most have awful integration - again a lot of burn-out - So focused on beating the competition that there's minimal focus on purpose and the difference their products make in the world - Silo'd divisions rather than collaboration - competition with each other; although I hope this is changing