DaVita reviews

3.2

49% would recommend to a friend

(7,509 total reviews)
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Javier Rodriguez

57% approve of CEO

49% positive business outlook

DaVita has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 7,509 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The DaVita employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Healthcare industry (3.4 stars).

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8K reviews
5.0
Nov 4, 2017

Facility Administrator

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great benefits, education and training opportunities. Lots of opportunity for growth. Great company culture, once you get used to it.

Cons

Pay is at low end of range. Lots of redundant tasks as an FA. Not really an administrator position, more of a nurse manager type role. Company culture feels a little like like you've just joined a cult, with all the unnecessary lingo and acronyms a new person feels very alienated until they start speaking the language. It's healthcare, we already have a common language. Why make up your own?

1.0
Mar 14, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Loved the core values and mission statement.

Cons

They don't live what they say. Could care less about their employees. Wild West is especially vicious. Hey lie, cheat on billing, commit Medi-Cal fraud and cover up patient deaths and harm. If you reporr it to the state, you get in serious trouble. Highly unethic. Upper Management from area directors up have no clinical background. They all come from Stanford. If you aren't one of the Redwoods you will never move up. They use extortion and threats to keep employees compliant. Avoid this company at all costs!

2.0
Oct 21, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great fellow employees (whoops, we're supposed to say 'teammates'), great patients, good coffee (at our office anyway), the ice machine works, cups provided, everything looks clean and neat. I work at different facilities, some are much better than others, some of the direct supervisors are great, some are not. Overall, I love my job, not because of the company I work for, but because I love being a nurse and caring for people is my life's work.

Cons

Overall, the company is a big fake with it's 'village' and 'mayor' and 'all for one' rhetoric. In fact, it's down right embarrassing. We have a joke where we say 'just drink the cool-aid' referring to the toxic fake caring verbiage and brainwashing atmosphere we're forced to swallow on a daily basis. Davita is a typical big corporation: profit comes first...always. Despite the highly paid people to spin it otherwise. For clinical staff anyway, the work is piled on and then piled on some more...we wind up cutting corners because there just isn't enough time. Most of upper management isn't clinical and doesn't have a clue what our jobs are, they see statistics and profit but not people. Some of the work arounds we clinical people have to do is ludicrous, in order to protect the patients and ourselves. If you get sick and have to take a leave of absence, good luck getting your job back no matter how long you've been with the company. The benefits are awful, which is embarrassing because we are supposed to be such a caring/loving/warm company. You lose all PTO hours after 120 hours; this saves the company a bundle of money, although they said this is for our own good, and now by stealing our PTO we'll be forced to take time off. Not that it's easy to take time off, or encouraged to take time off. Oh, and forget any meaningful cost of living raises. You'll be lucky to get a few cents more per hour each year. Big profits for our shareholders but not fair wages for the workers.

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