This company has gone downhill rapidly. This can be attributed to many factors, but the major ones that affect myself and immediate co-workers (from my perspective, obviously) are:
1. They no longer seem to be interested in the actual health (mental and/or physical) of their employees. It is more about the dollars for them. They dropped the free healthcare for the fulltime corporate employee’s years ago, and gave us a plan that was expensive, but covered a decent amount of the costs you might encounter. Recently, they gave us a plan that is exorbitantly expensive (especially if you have dependents, or pre-existing conditions), and quite literally covers almost nothing. Hope you don't need diabetes maintenance medication, and that you're OK with paying out the nose for your preferred birth control! It is now actually cheaper for the majority to decline the plan, have no insurance at all, and pay for your office visits out of pocket. Alternatively, you could go to your partner/spouse’s plan, but that requires jumping through a plethora of hoops, and for the people that are single, isn't an option at all. It is absurd that a healthcare company has nearly nonexistent healthcare benefits.
2. Management now expects, EXPECTS! you to turn in shoddy, half completed work, all in the name of numbers (money) for the upper management. This is a problem for people, who, like myself, have integrity and take pride in the work they do, and try to establish good, working relationships with the people who ultimately make the decisions of who is to be hired or denied. Don't dare try to point this out though!
3. The company is losing contracts left and right, partly due to the aforementioned work they expect and accept, both in the corporate office and in the actual hospital/clinical setting. You have half an application, with nothing to support it? Send it in! Create and duplicate work yourself, the medical staff and the providers! You're a physician with 8 documented cases of malpractice? Heck yeah, you can work for us! Whoo-hoo! Instead of trying to figure out an organized, cohesive and standardized operation across the board they prefer you "take orders" and get it done, no matter how chaotic, and quite frankly crappy, the work you are producing may be. Who cares if it takes a year or two to get someone to work, right?
4. There is an extreme amount of elitism in this company. If you don't fit into a very specific and exclusive clique, you will be talked about (and treated) as though you are less than, unintelligent, and unworthy of voicing any concerns. Your opinion and insights will fall on deaf ears, and you will be shut down before your words can grace your lips. I have news for you all though, the ones who are smiling in your faces with listening ears... are the same ones that are telling your ENTIRE life's business to everyone at the gym and happy hour. Cheers!
Additional cons: Depending on your department, there is nearly zero potential for growth (unless you are in the elite, in which case they will simply create a new position for you. How lovely!) and the bonus incentives they offer are often easily snatched away by people who have no idea what is going on, and do not pay attention to (or simply ignore) what you have, in many instances, been telling them for weeks.
I would be remiss if I didn't also mention that the pay raises we were eventually granted, took YEARS to be approved, and come with a slew of "if's". You are not given a raise based on your actual work, tenure/merit, and there no annual reviews.
This company grew too rapidly, bit off more than they could chew, promised things they had no way of delivering on, and are now desperately writing bogus checks that their butts can't cash.
