Pros
- Relatively easy starting point for a career in human tissue/medical device - Company is known for having unusually high expectations for productivity - other companies appreciate employees vetted by CryoLife - Personable and gregarious staff - Personnel changes made by new management are a welcome injection of outside talent - Employees are proud of their work and passionate about saving and improving lives
Cons
- A mid-size company with the politics of a small company and the inefficiencies and limited personnel roles of a larger company - Limited external experience: while one can learn some aspects of the medical device industry, the company's experience as a whole is limited and the firm's initial existence solely as a tissue processor is evident. The procedures and policies are not on par with established medical device companies. - Salary is not competitive and does not recognize previous experience, even when beneficial to the company - Decision making is limited to executive staff and poorly communicated to middle management; very limited freedom to make decisions in some departments - Some departments (e.g. R&D and Clinical Research) have superfluous staff and spend their surplus time antagonizing other departments by performing work for other departments on an unsolicited basis, requesting unnecessary work, or critiquing perfectly acceptable work product - Difficult to hire and retain talented staff due to the above - Work load for each employee should be evaluated on a more objective basis (some employees are pushed past the limit while others produce very little)