Seattle Children's reviews

3.8

68% would recommend to a friend

(1,324 total reviews)
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Jeff Sperring

60% approve of CEO

55% positive business outlook

Seattle Children's has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 1,324 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Seattle Children's 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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2.0
Apr 7, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

If you love kids, this is the place to work. You have the opportunity to make an impact every day you come to work. Also, the majority of the employees that work "on the floor" are here for the same reason--they love kids.

Cons

Management leans far too heavily on the fact people work there because they love kids--there's absolutely no competition or other pediatric hospitals in the area, so they don't have much competition and can treat employees poorly. Absolutely no follow-through every year when the annual review takes place--change doesn't occur.

3.0
Dec 2, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Cheerful surroundings; outstanding, smart, capable people; fun perks; good benefits.

Cons

Too many levels of management, and middle managers have historically been responsible for too many departments (ie spread too thin) which are often competing for scarce resources. Some recent reshuffling has improved this. Too much reliance on metrics and not enough understanding what many providers actually do. So much of what we do is not billable.

3.0
Jun 23, 2009

Great Mission, poor implementation

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

You could not ask for a more fulfilling or higher mission in life, helping sick children, fixing birth defects and deformities, and eradicating childhood diseases.

Cons

Watching the continuous waste of millions of donated dollars by the current upper management that could be going into useful children's health care. Seeing major issues (affecting patient care, patient privacy, sexual harassment) being dealt with by paying people off to be quiet and go away, rather than fix the issue. Hearing mounting rumors of physicians referring children to general hospitals because of safety issues. Instead of paying lip service to your employees, treat them like they actually matter.

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