Dysfunctional culture - Anonymous employee Children's Health Employee Review

1.0
Oct 16, 2012
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Pay is great and many very nice people.

Cons

Children's has the most dysfunctional culture I have ever experienced. It is very hierarchical and corporate-like. Communication is very difficult in this organization because you can't just communicate with various levels of management, you have to go through the chain of command for almost everything. The turnover is very high, it is challenging to get to know anyone at the organization because it seems like every week someone leaves mysteriously. Due to the high turnover, few people actually know how things should be done or how they have been done.

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