VCA reviews

2.9

40% would recommend to a friend

(2,354 total reviews)
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Patty Wu

20% approve of CEO

30% positive business outlook

VCA has an employee rating of 2.9 out of 5 stars, based on 2,354 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The VCA employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Personal Consumer Services industry (3.4 stars).

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1.0
Nov 21, 2017

God awful

Recommend
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Pros

NOTHING good about this place at all

Cons

Nepotism, horrible management, horrible pay

2.0
Nov 19, 2017

Run don't walk

Recommend
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Pros

Good life work balance most of the time.

Cons

A back stabbing environment where management will make an example of you in order to bolster their own careers (even when you are a new employee following direction). New employees are not made to feel welcome. Generally a pretty poor place to work where the vet staff is pitted against the office support staff by middle management. Having seen their practises behind the scenes, I would not recommend new clinics to join with this organization.

1.0
Nov 15, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

The interactions with the animals and discount on your pets care are the only perks to this job. I love most of my coworkers but this positive feature is in spite of the horrific conditions given to us by VCA.

Cons

1. No room for growth due to awful pay-company hires employees in at completely unreasonable rates and they cannot move ahead or transfer to a different hospital because rate would be even lower. Management knows that there is an issue with employees being compensated so little but chooses to hire and keep employees uninformed on this topic until they feel stuck. 2. Short staffed until the end-Because company pays so little and employees are so underappreciated, we NEVER have enough staff. 3. Management doe NOT care-When an employee voices concerns about ongoing issues that multiple employees have addresses, upper management says they have no idea that these issues are present and to continue working hard and maybe we will be rewarded for this (however, see first topic). 4. Corporate dribble-Instead of addressing issues that most employees are very concerned with: pay, staffing, room for growth, the lovely corporate workers (who no one has any idea what they actually do) push that "we are the experience" and we need to power through the difficult times to make it a pleasant environment for clients and employees. In this wonderful meeting, we also were informed the company made several large donations to charities (which is great) but you should probably make sure that the employees who are taking care of people's beloved animal lives are being payed enough to compensate for the ridiculous circumstances of being yelled at, cussed out, under-payed, and constantly injured on the job.

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