Providence reviews

3.4

61% would recommend to a friend

(6,513 total reviews)
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Erik Wexler

47% approve of CEO

46% positive business outlook

Providence has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 6,513 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Providence employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Salud industry (3.4 stars).

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7K reviews
3.0
Feb 17, 2017

Providence

Recommend
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Pros

Good pay rate, decent benefits, paid time off, good team work in lab departments

Cons

Too large of a company, losing touch with patients and employees. Upper administration is no longer local, cannot talk to Human Resources or benefit specialists in person.

1.0
Dec 5, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

All I can say is you'll gain experience. Before you know it, you'll be doing 10% of what you were hired for and 90% of something else, or called, other duties as assigned. There will never be a shortage of work for you if you are a hard worker

Cons

You have to sue to get your benefits. You're forced to do others people's work if you are a hard worker. Their mission and core values are not worth the paper they are written on. If you are a person with any kind of health issues, don't plan on Providence Health and Services to take care of you if you suddenly become to ill to work. In fact, they will deny you any benefits they can get away with. I had two heart attacks and arthritis so bad I couldn't walk or stand. They denied me benefits and payments which is causing me to go bankrupt. STAY AWAY

2.0
Nov 7, 2016

Director, Shared Services

Recommend
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Pros

Good benefits, good work life balance. Lots of inequities in workload though from individual to individual within same team based on relationship with leader.

Cons

Terrible IS/no technology; old fashioned, risk & change averse leadership - unfortunately because of significant tenured employees throughout the organization including execs, the organization is deeply committed to old fashioned and outdated practices which leads to profound inefficiencies and lack of diversity of opinion and experience. A lot of sacred cows in how the business is run ("this is how we've always done it") without awareness or consideration of root cause or full lifecycle; teams tend to wear blinders and focus only on their silo. Lots of disjointed decisions and lack of engagement at all levels. Bad culture that has appearance of caring/mission/vision but truly is just a pretense for a very superficial interest in employee satisfaction and lots of lip service type interest in patient care and caregiver engagement. My leader, for example, is not willing to praise anyone for fear of alienating someone else so as a result, never acknowledges anyone's contribution privately or publicly. No training or development and lots of behind closed doors decision making which is then rolled out to teams including core leaders vs inclusive decision making. Extremely political. Completely inefficient and nepotistic recruiting approach because of the volume of candidates. As a hiring manager, the only way to filter effectively with minimal support from recruiting is by your own recruiting using your own network. Many teams (whole teams) are stuck in positions that don't allow any growth and are really hard to get out of (revenue cycle).

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