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Sonic Healthcare reviews

3.2

48% would recommend to a friend

(332 total reviews)
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Colin Goldschmidt

52% approve of CEO

44% positive business outlook

Sonic Healthcare has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 332 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Sonic Healthcare 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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332 reviews
1.0
Mar 3, 2015

This organization is a disaster. (US IT)

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Pros

None, really. The culture is bad, the benefits are awful, and pay is terrible. Really no redeeming qualities about this place.

Cons

Upper IT management is dishonest, starting with the CIO. Decisions are mad entirely based on emotion, so being disliked is a death sentence here. Especially if you're disliked for being ethical. If you work for sonic, DO NOT alert ANYONE to patient safety or legal issues - you will be drummed out by any means possible to keep the word from getting back to Australia. Corporate IT is populate by sycophants and led by a sociopath whose ability to lie is matched only by his ability to feign competence. Wow. I've never seen someone so savvy at being all talk. WHOLE LOT of empty suits at Sonic. Corporate HR is completely out of touch with the company, lazy, and cares little about its labs or the people who work for them. Patient safety issues are ignored on the local level. The emphasis is on avoiding CAP reportables above all else. Problems with instruments causing faulty results? Don't correct those reports, re-draw! The list goes on, but suffice to say Sonic is not a compatible workplace for people with ethics or integrity. Patients are not safe sending their work to a Sonic laboratory.

1.0
Jan 14, 2015

I.T.

Anonymous employee
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Pros

They have loads of money, however spend it foolishly.

Cons

Boy where is start: They are a company stuck in the 90's, with the processes and policies. They require all IT people to wear slacks and dress shirt, if you are luck maybe nice jeans and shirt on Friday. Certainly no IT casual dress. The equipment is marginal, the developers get laptops with the same specs as sales and secretaries, under powered and no drive space. The current IT Director is a micro manager, with a new restrictive policy ever week or two. And forget working remotely, if sick take a PTO day. There are few developers for the work that needs to be done, and they continually talk about replacing the current apps with some old antiquated language. So if you are looking for a job from the 90's with micro management and bosses who care more about their bonuses, then this place is for you.

5.0
Jan 9, 2015

Manager

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Longevity and stable within company

Cons

Communication is lacking in some areas

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