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What is the best part of working at the company?
The science involved with certain positions

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
The artificial culture they put up as a facade for how things really work within the company. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Terrible, possibly depending on your department but, I suspect not based on my discussions with other employees while I worked there. There is a good chance your direct supervisor won't actually know a thing about what you do on a daily basis. They were most likely made supervisor or manager because the person above them in the chain knew that they would follow their directions and not ask questions, think for themselves, or make suggestions for improvement that might make them look incompetent...and many of them are. 
Management at Streck is only interested in climbing the ladder and keeping everything copacetic and moving along. They aren't interested in suggestions for improvement or challenges of any kind to improve their department or the company. In fact, if you repeatedly make such suggestions, they will likely target and penalize you until they are able to have you let go because you threaten their laziness and position within the company.

Job requires college education but they don't really want you to use the knowledge you learned in college. Manufacturer (lab) positions don't allow any creative or critical thinking. Supervisors in lab departments are unhelpful and believe they are too good to learn their own department's processes. Supervisors are not held accountable for their decisions and are instead passed off to their "pawns" for disciplinary action. (One employee actually got fired for something his Supervisor told him to do! Then the supervisor wouldn't back him up when the higher ups questioned it) Overall, a terrible place to work if you are not in some kind of management position, as they treat everyone as a disposable commodity.

I really enjoy working here and the work is overall enjoyable. The only things about this place is management plays favorites and you can find yourself in trouble if you try to say something about a co worker related issue. Most of the time there is not much issues but when they come up there really is not a solid solution to the problem and you have to just be quiet deal with it and do your job. Overall the job is a really good place to work just wish problem solving among co workers and communication was a lot better and direct. 

The management does a great job at communicating the area to new workers.  They also do a great job at including you in programs and how the company operates. A typical day for an intern, of course, depends on your department. I was a micro intern and they don't normally have those.  So my work was mostly filling up tubes and plating diluted bacterial suspensions. My manager was informative and open to my persistent questions. I learned a lot about reporting contamination in industry and how their products are made.  The most enjoyable part of the job was being paid to apply my skills in microbiology.

The QC department recently had a lot of people promoted to supervisors and managers, and they gave me the impression that they are in over their heads.  They are very quick to document any errors their subordinates make and they set people up to fail frequently.  I've even seen one of the supervisors pin a mistake onto a subordinate and fire the subordinate for it.  No one feels like their job is secure anymore.

There was recently a change in upper management. They assured employees that nothing would change. Immediately the CEO, vice president of sales, HR director, facilities director and numerous customer service and IT workers were forced out. There have been 3 mass layoffs in the past year, and more are expected. There is no consideration for long time employees. It's very sad, people are waiting for the next shoe to drop.


Overall a wonderful place to work. They do just about everything right, offer competitive pay and good benefits. Don't ask too much of you but expect you to perform up to or exceed expectations. Management is good at the lower level but the higher ups typically do their own thing and do not believe much of their decision making should have to be explained.

Working in manufacturing is all about extreme micromanagement and fear of making any errors. Highly physical job with numerous demands all with "high priority" that need to be completed at the exact same time. Working in admin is a whole new company, they receive special benefits, like bonuses, that are not given to manufacturing employees.

Small business feel even though there are well over 200 emloyees. Customer Service is. Great department to work for, the management is AWESOME.  I only have 2 negatives regarding my emplloyment.  Compensation (Salary, new CS employees were being paid more that someone who had -4 years seniority and the Heath Insurance was ridiculously expensive

Streck is a very good place to get your foot in the door out of college, but does not have the size or structure to allow for much vertical movement.  You are not expected to work more than 40 hours a week, but due to travel, weekends can be spent working with little to know compensation for the extra time.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Programmer analyst 4 salaries reported	$66,000 per year
Inspector 2 salaries reported	$15.00 per hour
Technical support representative 1 salary reported	$32.50 per hour
Laboratory assistant 1 salary reported	$18.00 per hour
Document specialist 1 salary reported	$21.00 per hour

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