Privately owned company with old fashioned values - Anonymous employee KARL STORZ Employee Review

3.0
Apr 29, 2014
Anonymous employee
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Pros

The company does actually believe in it's core values - especially improving the quality of human lives through charity. Mrs Storz donates several hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of endoscopic devices to hospitals and health facilities in third world and poor countries, often times to support women and children's health. I believe they really care about employees as people - something very hard to find these days.

Cons

Silos. So many acquisitions have resulted in divisions of the company acting and operating like seperate businesses - often with conflicting priorities. This causes a great deal of frustration among employees and leaders, are quickly exhuasted at the pace - which is often a result of the "this is top priority, hurry up, do it now..." direction from above that never seems to end and burns people out. The ownership is slow to accept change in the areas of general business in the areas of technology

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5.0
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Pros

Great benefits and company culture, frequent opportunities to interface with senior leaders and executives.

Cons

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2.0
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Pros

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Cons

Privately owned, so many decisions are made arbitrarily, not always having to be vetted properly. Globally, decisions would be made that would not be in the best interests of the US market. Also, if you're an internal employee, it could be difficult to be promoted/advance within the company. You get stuck with new duties, but no new titles/pay.

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