National Vision reviews

3.2

46% would recommend to a friend

(917 total reviews)
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Alex Wilkes

28% approve of CEO

43% positive business outlook

National Vision has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 917 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The National Vision employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Retail & Wholesale industry (3.4 stars).

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917 reviews
2.0
Mar 9, 2014

Management

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Pros

Closed on Sundays, flexible scheduling, lots of information to take in. Great intro positions for those just starting out in optometry/optical. Apprenticeship program available for further education.

Cons

DM/GM on different pages, inexperienced management in busy positions which is very stressful on rest of staff resulting in high turnover.

2.0
Feb 11, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

National Vision is a great company. They have good benefits and rewards for their employees.

Cons

There is never any room for advancement within the company. No matter how qualified you are for the job, they always hire from the outside. They do not pay well at all and they do not give fair raises, no matter how well your store did the previous year. I do not recommend this company if you plan to advance, more than likely they will hire someone in from another company that is not qualified to do the job.

2.0
Feb 6, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

They hire you full time as an employee and give you benefits when I was there many years ago unsure if it's changed.

Cons

Wow the employees there were awful. They tried to get me fired when I felt they were not working. They stood around a lot and chit chatted and did not help the customers. The patients there treated me very poorly sometimes and even stated that I purposely gave them an incorrect prescription and wanted their money back, the company always gave it to them back. I recommend anyone go there for free eye exams and lie that the doctor gave them a bad exam, you will get your money back. They don't support you as a doctor. Their sales goals are ludicrous and you never meet them most times. They want you to solicit patients for patients. They force you to see patients every 20minutes and give 'excellent' care which is a joke. The optometry assistant was hired by the optical manager and when I complained that she was not doing her job, that was another point against my head to get me fired. I can't hire my own technician when I was there and the one I had was very lazy (She has since been fired). You can't expect much since most employees there are paid $8/hr and this is suppose to be an optometry / optical/medical office. No wonder the employees don't care and the ones that did, left almost immediately. They sent us to meetings to Vegas and you feel like you're going somewhere until you realize they put you up at a hotel off the strip so you have to pay to go there by catching a taxi in the evenings. We landed at 2pm there and they did not provide us lunch. So we had to buy ourselves our food. They did not provide dinner for us making sure the meetings ended exactly at 6pm so we can fend for ourselves.

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