Paid bare minimum wage, promise advancement opportunities in interview but don't follow through, corporate environment.
Pros
Work with animals, but that's about it. Offer benefits, but not good health or dental insurance plans (basically offer only catastrophic plans with high premiums).
Cons
Very corporate based and seem to only care about money, don't care about losing customers or working with low income clients. Need to follow speeches and selling spiels for every appoinyment about their care club, which basically tries to get clients to sign up for monthly payments as a way of helping them but DVMs get commission from it and thats why they push it on every client that walks through the door. Boarding conditions unacceptable; as a veterinary assistant working in the hospital I would notice Animals sitting in cages soaked in urine or feces for hours at a time but I was told I wasn't allowed to clean the kennels because that was the kennel assistants jobs. There are thousands of veterinary practices that focus all their energy on genuinely helping patients and clients, this is not one of them. They told me they'd train me in doing dentals (the reason why I took the job) and then after I was hired I asked when I'd start training and they said it wouldn't be for at least one year. I was told I'd have every other weekend off (another selling point of taking the job) and I was scheduled every single weekend for 3 months straight because they were understaffed. I also was offered bare minimum wage and was told by employees that had been there over two years they'd never gotten a raise. The ones that had gotten raises threatened to quit and finally the employer gave in.