Sutter Health reviews

4.0

78% would recommend to a friend

(3,374 total reviews)
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Warner Thomas, President and CEO, Sutter Health

87% approve of CEO

76% positive business outlook

Sutter Health has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 3,374 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Sutter Health 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
Jan 12, 2017
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Pros

Excellent health benefits. I would even say is the best benefits I had from all my previous jobs. Good Paid Time Off. I get about 32-36 days off per year (this includes the 9 days national holidays Sutter observed) after working there for 9 years. So I get to take several 2 weeks vacation every year.

Cons

Poor upper management. Sutter put people who are not intelligent, have no management skills, bias, play favoritism, and lack experience in managerial role. There are lots of favoritism going around and people who are friends with upper leadership gets promoted very quickly even though they are not qualify for the position and has no former experience. Because of this there's a high turn around of long term employees who have a lot of experience and ability. Those who are able, left. Those who remains are the one who can't go anywhere else and they stay to be protected by their friends. It's a really bad morale situation and leadership just close a blind eye and try to make everyone get along. Lack of upward mobility - slow to promote and not many positions for advancement. No career coaching for employees.

3.0
Sep 13, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

The people are friendly and management seems to care about the culture. Schedules are flexible to allow for a nice work:home balance. The workforce is diversified.

Cons

There have been so many management and senior management changes that it makes the employees uneasy. There is no communication from upper management about what is really going on. The salaries are far below industry standard and even below other Sutter affiliates. There are no defined career paths and it is very easy to get pigeonholed.

3.0
Jul 25, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Very good about personal time for family, doctors, etc. Good salaries. IT department is lucky to have the medical community set the standard for how employees are treated.

Cons

CIO has been checked out for years and follows a pattern of putting people with no experience in big positions and letting them run wild. This has left the IT department in a constant state of flux because once one lunatic leaves another one is appointed to their place with a new agenda. Currently have a COO who is in the process of replacing Microsoft Project with Cherwell, a build-as-you-go product, but it appear\is run like a high-school business club, where promotions are handed to friends and nobody bothers to google the basics of how to run a business. Management sells one culture but follows their own with no oversight. New CTO seems to know what he's doing and publishes his future vision for his department leaving the server support and engineering side of IT the only viable location to land in 2016.

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