Stratacuity Reviews

I wish working here had been a more positive experience for you, and that you had brought your concerns to us directly. We don’t put anything false on here. The vast majority here are proud of our culture and values, and actively recruit people into their teams. We are celebrating the ten year anniversary for one employee in October, and another in June. Excluding Principals and those here under twelve months, we have an average tenure of over five years. With this retention rate, we are not surprised by positive reviews. On random checking our culture and values: We agree 100%. We create and maintain healthy relationships that will speak for us. And over 15 years, we’ve made a huge impact with the help of great friends whether they are Current and Former Employees, Clients or Candidates. Considering our growth comes mainly by referral, we encourage everyone to seek inside and outside opinions. We've always said we are not perfect, so if someone looks hard enough, they will find some who disagree. Our ethics are among the highest in the industry. I found a quote summing up why I believe most love it here: "While business is a game of numbers, real achievement is measured in infinite emotional wealths: friendship, usefulness, helping, learning, or said another way, the one who dies with the most joys wins." -Dale Dauten. When we say we are doing well, this is what we are talking about. We got into Biotech to make a difference and we do so every day as we serve our clients and candidates. As with everyone who works here, we want it to be a very positive experience and wish it had been a better fit for you.

Thank you for presenting your point of view more professionally than others. We all respect that! On your first point, yes we have an outstanding team - all of them. You will not find a group of kinder, honest and hard-working people anywhere. You also will not find a better-balanced group which celebrates wins, gives back to the community and genuinely cares about their work. We are lucky to have awesome people, and one of our greatest satisfactions is seeing them develop deep friendships. We also appreciate your recognition of our investment in our team, but these investments go well beyond paying for networking events. To address your cons: When you say the environment is stressful, are you comparing us to other recruiting companies or saying the job of recruiting is stressful? Either way, we'll give you our perspective: Recruiting can be stressful at times, so we do our best to minimize interoffice sources of stress. We have an open environment with no offices, not even for the person writing this response! When it gets humming in here, you have to concentrate. The majority of our team enjoys this energy, and the collaboration stimulated when together in the same room. We don't have a tight collar, corporate environment. As you stated, relationships here blossom into lifelong friendships. With friendship comes a high degree of comfort, so when you say you heard swearing, offensive, racist and sexist comments, we think this deserves context. There is a big difference between making a joke, and directing a lewd or racist comment toward your peer. We don’t believe you are saying you were personally the target of any such remarks. Assuming what you heard was meant in humor, please take it easy on us! Your review suggests we are unprofessional, which is an exaggeration unless you are very easily offended. The team appreciates an environment in which you can be yourself. However, we will try to be cognizant not everyone shares the same brand of humor. On our turnover, we've recently had more departures than we are accustomed to, but we are strong in numbers and even stronger in spirit and enthusiasm. Toward the end of 2014 into 2015, we hired fast, and in retrospect, we made some mistakes. It's tough to lose anyone, particularly when they are a friend, but our team has never been richer with committed people who possess the right attitudes, work ethic and intention to do good things. We would not trade what we have now for a larger company with the wrong people. We are sorry it made you uncomfortable to see someone fired. It seldom happens but we are an open office, so we ask you to forgive us this trespass. Please consider that it is most uncomfortable for the person leaving and for their manager, not for you. We reject the notion that we put on a good sales job to get people in the door. We go out of our way to present an accurate picture of working here. We tell them to check us out on Glassdoor knowing they will read reviews like yours. Our interview process is lengthy, and historically we select only about 10%. We also dismiss the idea that few succeed as we are on track to exceed our goals. Most do very well, and when you started we had every hope you would too. We'd love it if it were solely up to us, but personal effort often dictates an employee's fate. Everyone gets the same shot, so the idea that it's unfair just does not resonate.