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Rady Children's Hospital

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Great learning experience, advocate for yourself or you'll be taken advantage of - Legal Rady Children's Hospital Employee Review

3.0
4 Dec 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

autonomy, remote, benevolent mission, community building events

Cons

lack of self-awareness, market, and perspective among leadership that has been there a long time - too long, leadership self-interested and self-protective rather than helping their most promising direct reports to advance and better serve organization; lots of politics - important to stand up for yourself otherwise you'll just get ping-ponged around between large self-important personalities; tendency to reward rosy picture roles rather than those doing the most difficult work - should a highly regulated tax exempt safety net children's hospital really be paying so much for marketing and external affairs? don't just reward the obnoxious people or you'll lose the best people - who's doing the actual work navigating hurdles and preventing reputation damage

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Rady Children's Hospital Response
5mo
Hello and thank you for your feedback. We appreciate you sharing your experience, and we’re sorry to hear that it did not meet our shared expectations. At Rady Children’s, our goal is to ensure that every teammate feels valued and supported. We truly appreciate your candid review, your input is invaluable in helping us improve the overall teammate experience.

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5.0
15 Sept 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- department encourages growth in specialities - great team, skilled clinicians - fair caseload

Cons

- low pay for socal - management keeps close track of productivity

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Rady Children's Hospital Response
8mo
Thank you so much for taking the time to share what you love about Rady Children’s! We’re thrilled to hear that you recommend Rady Children’s as an employer. We are always striving to improve in order to better serve our teammates. Your feedback will be reviewed and is deeply appreciated.
3.0
5 May 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Population is great, working with children and families is highly rewarding, collaboration with outside organizations is beneficial if you have the opportunity to network in your role. Some of the teams are extremely collaborative and supportive!

Cons

Social work department is primarily toxic, condescending, and territorial. Multiple people have been bullied out over the years. Pay is low compared to Sharp and Scripps, annual raises are much lower than Sharp and Scripps (2.25/2.5 vs 4ish%), market adjustments don’t kick in until you’ve been there 2.5 years (despite inflation and bills going up within that time), and your PTO will all go to holidays.

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Rady Children's Hospital Response
1mo
Thank you for your feedback. This is being reviewed and will be escalated appropriately. Sharing your experience will help us grow as an organization, your time is appreciated.
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