What is the hiring process like at Providence?

Providence is a good company to work for

The hiring process is not the best

The company offers certain benefits, such as insurance, fitness reimbursements, decent office infrastructure, food and competitive pay.

Bias and favoritism. Lack of role clarity. You'll lose touch with your technical skills, as opportunities to apply them are rare. Toxic management and a harmful workplace culture. Unfair hiring practices: Managers often hire former colleagues regardless of their qualifications. Ego-driven leadership: Managers are closed off to feedback and unashamedly take credit for their team’s ideas. Lack of transparency in the performance appraisal process. Managers openly threaten termination. No job security. Managers are unclear about their expectations from team members, often valuing empty talk and unnecessary posturing over actual productivity. If you're good at speaking in grand terms and putting on a show, you can easily survive, even without technical expertise. The company claimed to be product-focused, but in practice, it operated as a service company. It is now officially shifting to a service-based model. Indian managers are often ineffective, with key decision-making and ownership typically resting with the US leadership.

Providence offers great benefits and pay,

Long and drawn out hiring process! It takes 6-8 weeks to get an offer once you've completed your virtual interview. They won't start you until the beginning of a pay period. Most people need a job sooner than that. But, they're a great place to work if you can hold out that long!

Great benefits, insurance and PTO.

It takes a while for the hiring process.

if hired full time you’ll get your hours

you wont have a steady schedule so there isn’t room or time rather for you to pursue furthering your education in any field. The job will take a toll on you physically and the hiring manager micro manages and doesn’t adhere to employee concerns.

None. Zero. Zilch. Nada. Bupkis.

Where do I start? * Crammed office that caused illnesses to linger forever or spread quickly - thank goodness I was out of there pre-COVID. * Hilariously, despite being part of a major insurance provider, their health insurance is terrible. May as well not have even existed. * Providence means Providence St. Joseph - which means it's religious to the nth. You are *EXPECTED* to perform community service that is in some way religiously-related - and to *THEIRS*, not yours. It wasn't outright said that failing to do so would jeopardize employment - at least, not in writing. * If you are LGBTQ+, do not even bother - you are not part of their company culture, you are not part of their religion and you are not a person to them. The bosses are even worse - caught several times uttering slurs. * Interview process had nothing to do with my actual job whatsoever. * I came down with pinkeye on a Monday morning, and due to how contagious it is, I asked to be able to see a doctor at 9AM and come in if I was negative (I wasn't) as my shift didn't start till 10AM. My boss' response was to immediately fire me over Slack without cause. I hate to use negative language, let alone crude language, but seriously, _ _ _ _ this place. There are much better places to work for that AREN'T forcing you into their toxicity.

With latest contract, RN are paid well. They've reportedly hired 500 nurses this year after several years of losing staff.

They've ended incentive shifts. They've ended nearly all possible overtime. They have a new CNO they hired this past winter which is spearheading a campaign to cut costs and make this hospital profitable. Unfortunately, they have cut staff - are about to layoff a huge number of our CNAs. They also are trying to increase our patients to nurse ratios. Overall, it's probably going to become worse because the company is so centered on cutting costs which will make the staffing - short staffed.

Providence in general is a good company, but some of the leaders of the Saint John's Health Center Foundation in Santa Monica have killed the place.

I don't even know where to start... I will process all the mental trauma and then take appropriate action, for me and my colleagues. But if you are looking to apply to Saint John's Health Center Foundation, please think multiple times and then don't!

Many of my coworkers - the other nurses I work with - are some of the most compassionate, hardworking individuals I know. The pay is reasonable but my salary is $20k/year less than the best-paying hospital in town. The contract has a seniority-based hiring policy, which is a double-edged sword. It means that they have to hire the person with the most in-hospital seniority for a position that they’re hiring for (for example, a fellowship in the ED or ICU or Maternity), which means that if you know you want to work in a department that it’s hard to get your foot in the door to, if you do your time in a medsurg unit here, you can be confident you will eventually be able to get into the unit of your choice.

The company doesn’t care about their employees. Management - even from the nurse manager level - is seemingly pressured by the higher-ups to keep budgets as tight as possible, leading to widespread employee dissatisfaction, safety concerns, staffing concerns. There are always equipment problems: computers freezing up in the middle of a medical emergency, scanners breaking, beds broken or not working properly. The higher-ups are indifferent to or dismissive of concerns brought to them by nursing staff. Everyone I know who has left Providence is so happy to have “gotten out.”

Hospice team is great! Work for hospice and not inside the hospital.

Short staffed in hospital. No retention plan for nurses. Always hiring new staff and old staff is leaving. Cutting costs everywhere.