Providence reviews

3.5

63% would recommend to a friend

(6,525 total reviews)
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Erik Wexler

50% approve of CEO

48% positive business outlook

Providence has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 6,525 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 Healthcare industry (3.4 stars).

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7K reviews
3.0
Jul 9, 2017

This company is a mixed bag

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Providence's vision is amazing, and in the right facility with the right managers, they do some incredible things for patients and employees alike. Their benefits rock, too.

Cons

Providence is such a massive system that the quality of your workplace really depends on your facility manager and middle management. I had the misfortune of working in a facility with very poor leadership, which greatly influenced my decision to move on. I will say, however, that the HR department went above and beyond to try to correct the issues brought to light.

3.0
Jun 13, 2017

Diagnostic Imaging

Recommend
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Pros

Great coworkers Decent pay Decent Benefits Good cafeteria. Yearly free Trimet passes

Cons

Worked to death Often short staffed "Work life balance" really means work should be your life. No time to pursue education or other opportunites even though they provide them, they dont support your efforts. Dont think upper managers have any clue what happens in department. Very disconnected from employees. Review process is being told every year what you failed to do. No real opportunities for growth.

2.0
May 29, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

People in other departments are nice and respectful towards their fellow co-workers in other departments. Doctors are nice and treat other staff (pharmacists, nurses, CNAs, etc) with respect.

Cons

Management here is terrible! Often times pharmacy management will ask you to do their jobs for them (apparently it's pharmacy staff's responsibility to arrange for coverage if someone calls out sick on top of all other responsibilities). Every other place I have worked, you told a manager if someone called off sick and they would take care of it, but here whoever gets the call has to also find someone to cover or the person who answered the call will get in trouble (for not doing the manager's job for them). Pharmacy management will also take all the credit for great work by pharmacy without giving any credit to the staff who did all the real work. Management is only concerned about numbers, so if there's fewer patients who are more sick (who still require more care), they will think it's not busy (and they can just flex people off), but if there's a lot of patients who aren't that sick they will keep staffing levels. Medications are frequently out of stock because people don't do their job (not necessarily due to the nationwide drug shortages), but management doesn't seem to care (especially if it's a weekend or at night). People come in late and don't start working soon after come (they clock in and eat a leisurely breakfast or chit-chat for 20 or 30 minutes while the work piles up and the phones are ringing off the hook), but management doesn't seem to care about this. People who work during the day get a lot of praise and free meals and other gifts, but if you work in the evening or at night, management doesn't care about you and gives you no praise. Even during pharmacy appreciation week, management told us "you can eat the leftovers of what we gave to to the daytime people," as if we are dogs on the street.

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