Pros
The perks/benefit working for this company is that first of all, they do their absolute best to uphold their culture or standards, to make sure that both patients and employees are being treated equally.
Secondly, depending on what you do and in what department you are in, you will absolutely feel like the day is dragging by and just want to get out of there. But with the work environment I experienced, the coworkers I had were very social and had lots of great laughs. As far as training goes, when switching from one department to the other, the training was decent from one department lead not giving me much at all to work with and then putting me onto the floor right away, to somebody in the specialty department, who was very thorough and took time to teach you what you needed to learn.
Cons
As far as my experience with the downside of Swedish, I would say is management and the typical days at work. Management had their good sides to where I became great friends and close to a couple of managers, to the down side of where I had really bad issues with them. The major red flag for me was the micromanaging and screwing with my PTO requests. With my PTO requests, my previous clinical supervisor would approve the request, especially when it was a month out and I would get the email notifications telling me that it has been approved by that clinical supervisor. The huge issue when I was on vacation for couple of weeks, the supervisor told me that I did not have enough PTO for the second week and that it would be marked as unpaid time off. I did not have an issue with that until he/she called me the next day stating why I did not go to work and would be marked as a “no-call, no-show.” I was very confused until the supervisor told me that he/she did not approve my PTO request for that second week, only for the first. This was where I got frustrated and showed that it was approved by the supervisor and he/she stated that it was still in a “pending approval status,” and I have never heard of that the entire time I have been with this company. After everything, I got in trouble for no reason and was written up as my second write-up, not even a verbal warning, per policy.
In the end, the main point from all of this in my experience, is that Swedish as a whole has been pretty good to me when it came to meeting new coworkers, having that fun & social environment and decent training (depending on the department). The other half of the company needing to improve on management needing to focus on more important things generally and not messing around with people’s PTO or time off when it has already been approved.