Vantaggi
Great fellow employees (whoops, we're supposed to say 'teammates'), great patients, good coffee (at our office anyway), the ice machine works, cups provided, everything looks clean and neat. I work at different facilities, some are much better than others, some of the direct supervisors are great, some are not. Overall, I love my job, not because of the company I work for, but because I love being a nurse and caring for people is my life's work.
Svantaggi
Overall, the company is a big fake with it's 'village' and 'mayor' and 'all for one' rhetoric. In fact, it's down right embarrassing. We have a joke where we say 'just drink the cool-aid' referring to the toxic fake caring verbiage and brainwashing atmosphere we're forced to swallow on a daily basis. Davita is a typical big corporation: profit comes first...always. Despite the highly paid people to spin it otherwise. For clinical staff anyway, the work is piled on and then piled on some more...we wind up cutting corners because there just isn't enough time. Most of upper management isn't clinical and doesn't have a clue what our jobs are, they see statistics and profit but not people. Some of the work arounds we clinical people have to do is ludicrous, in order to protect the patients and ourselves. If you get sick and have to take a leave of absence, good luck getting your job back no matter how long you've been with the company. The benefits are awful, which is embarrassing because we are supposed to be such a caring/loving/warm company. You lose all PTO hours after 120 hours; this saves the company a bundle of money, although they said this is for our own good, and now by stealing our PTO we'll be forced to take time off. Not that it's easy to take time off, or encouraged to take time off. Oh, and forget any meaningful cost of living raises. You'll be lucky to get a few cents more per hour each year. Big profits for our shareholders but not fair wages for the workers.