VSP Vision reviews about "people"

Not an agile company. Technology and foundational platforms are extremely limited for agile deployment of new products and programs. Resources are siloed. Political environment

Low pay, minimal opportunity for growth

Market rates on salaries are an opportunity area

Management can be a hindrance to the development process at times. Pressure for stakeholders can sometimes drive long hours and rushed products out the door in unreasonable time tables. Salaries are a little lower than industry standards.

Call center provides high stress and poor hours, there’s not a lot of room to move up, it’s hard to even move laterally within the line of business. Very hard to find time off and if you need time off it can hurt your metrics which lessens your value to the call center. It is also incredibly hard to get to know any of your peers since you’re constantly on the phones with back to back to back calls and your schedules rarely match up. Also, not much value or recognition towards the staff. Cake days don’t make up for that.

Incompetent leaders who say the right things often get rewarded and promoted. Current CEO is a "yes man" who only cares about his personal image and making bonus. He manipulates board members with flattery and false praise to get what he wants.

Some systems are outdated and need to have better way to sync data

Company culture needs an overhaul. Vsp makes a lot of bad investments. VPs get attached to ideas and spin and stage information to C Suite which glorifies bad projects that continues to cost money because no one wants to step up and take accountability. And as junior people if you attempt to be bold and flag these projects you will kill all your chances of promotion. Play along thinking is rampant. Most VPs focus spend money to be seen doing things versus using critically evaluating long term profitability potential. VSP’s major competitors are focused on eliminating independent optometry which is VSP’s core business and VSP seems to be buying up more independent optometry which seemed counterproductive since healthcare as we know will dramatically shift in these next 5-10 years. Basically if you want work here, be prepared to be moving backwards.