DaVita Employee Job Reviews in the United States

"You'll have an opportunity to excel if you drink the kool-aid. It is very clickish and siloed. There is a shinny object syndrome in the IT org that kills progress. The people are great and the ideals are worthy. The politics get in the way of the vision."

"I have worked for DaVita for 5 years and recommend it for anyone early in their career. However, I don't recommend DaVita for mid-career professionals. If you don't have an MBA from an elite B School, they don't have a place for you for advancement."

"I've worked for Davita off and on since 1998. Then, the staff was wonderful (ole school), now it's about numbers, not care, not doing anything for patients, no good care, if you're sick?? can't make it to work, management angry?? like you want to be sick, no compassion, we are there for patients care. I can't say it's every management but most of it is management. I guess being in charge, you forget who you are in charge of and what your charge is, think about, Davita can be better, a lot better, like cleaning, better management, controlling your tongue??"

What do you like about working at DaVita?

"I was excited to actually make more money than other dialysis clinics, and I thought the core values of the company were to be true, so I was happy at first, until my first day on the job."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"DON'T DO IT!!!! HEED my warning. The training is NON-existent; you have to train yourself. They will lure you in with pay but this is not worth the extra two or three dollars an hour. I work my tail off and all I dream about is working retail for less pay, but if it wasn't for someone to show the patients care and understanding, as I feel so bad for them, I would quit TODAY!!! I'm already in too deep. Save yourself and just don't take the job! If something else comes up comparable within a couple dollars of what I make now, I am leaving, NO question there!"

What don't you like about working at DaVita?

"I am worked to DEATH. I have never in my life seen such a horrible attitude towards patients' lives, employees, and allowing outright laziness among staff to go on for so long, not just in my clinic, but several I have worked at local to my home. I am shocked and amazed. I can't believe all the work you require the techs to do daily. That's just unbelievable. Have you no sense of the term,overworked It spills over to the patients, and no wonder they are getting treated so poorly - the staff is tired and overworked!!!"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Reuse, bicarb, water checks, patients' machine set-ups, take-downs, cleaning, disinfecting, and the incredibly LONG and drawn out shift changes are HORRID at best. No one is willing to speak up and say they are overworked You need to come out of the office a bit and take a look around the clinics at shift change and note the times. 3-4 hour shift changes are UNACCEPTABLE!!! That's far too long for any one employee to undergo that kind of stress and, yes, shift changes are stressful!!"

"Not all it is cracked up to be."

What do you like about working at DaVita?

"Work has impact on real patients' lives. You can see the effect."

What don't you like about working at DaVita?

"Growth opportunities are limited and being constrained by industry bundled payments."

"Not a very positive place to work."

What do you like about working at DaVita?

"I enjoyed the fact that I could be on my own for some of the time, with no one around to really bother me."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be very careful of what you wish for, as you just might get it! Make sure you get whatever they tell you in writing. I've been lied to a few times about that."

What don't you like about working at DaVita?

"Management has its issues. They hire people not qualified to lead people, just because they have a degree. Certain areas of the country have racial issues between management and the workers."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Actually live by the core values DaVita so dearly pastes all over every clinic they own."

"The IT department has a bad reputation within this company."

What do you like about working at DaVita?

"I like the people I work with because they're not catty."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Before you accept the job, make sure it's the one you want to work for the rest of your life."

What don't you like about working at DaVita?

"There's no room to move to other positions within the company, and your hours are based on how many patients your clinic has."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I would communicate what I need and what's going on better."

"This is a high demand job that struggles with change. Its a very hard and emotionally draining position and doesn't pay well. It takes strong people that's in it for the patients and not just for the money because that's what it takes to do the job, a heart."

What do you like about working at DaVita?

"My likes are: it is close to home, there is a certain amount of professional satisfaction, and paydays."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Do not come to work for this company; it could ruin your career."

What don't you like about working at DaVita?

"The work load is unrealistic for most of the staff. The company mantra of being the best dialysis company in the world is dishonest."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I would have a more realistic understanding of what it is like to work for DaVita. Cut the phony corporate culture."

What do you like about working at DaVita?

"These days the only thing that makes me happy is seeing my favorite patients."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be sure this is the career you want, because once you're here, you're here forever."

What don't you like about working at DaVita?

"DaVita is all about numbers. Your hours are based on how many patients are at your clinic. Our clinic is getting slammed but we can't hire another nurse because the numbers say we're doing fine with our current staffing. Nurses spend between 43-50 hours a week working a 4-day work week. It's impossible to move within the company too. DaVita loves to hire from the outside so much that a lateral move is like pulling teeth. (I still haven't pulled this off.) Oh, and they don't match any of your 401K!"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Stop all the micromanaging or just do the task yourself."

"Really a horrible place to try to build a career. I had to threaten to quit to get a promotion I had been doing for more than 2.5 years. After communicating my promotion my director realized that she had made a mistake by not promoting me sooner as the rest of the organization saw me in the position. Now that I've been promoted I'm not allowed to do my role, but I'm currently stuck hand holding people and being excluded at every turn. Good ideas are not encouraged, toeing the company line is."