Seattle Children's Reviews in Seattle, WA

Pros – Valuable mission to improve health and quality of life for children, youth and their families. Excellent benefits, salary, and employee wellness perks.

Cons – Large organization means innovation may at times be slow.

Advice to Senior Management – Continue the innovations for employee attraction and retention.

Pros – Good scientists and colleagues, excellent benefits. Some well recognized researchers in the area of neurobiology. Opportunities to collaborate and work with other research institutions in the area such as the Fred Hutchinson , University of Washington , Benaroya Institute.

Cons – Poor and mediocre leadership. The director does not have idea of what research means. No place to advance. Generally poor recognition of efforts. Opportunities for advancement are limited and salaries are dictated by arbitrary parameters rather than merit. No in the same scale for similar industry, way below averages.

Advice to Senior Management – They need to focus on the real problems and dissatisfaction of employees.

Pros – MIssion. Very well managed. Forward thinking organization. Genuinely cares about patients AND employees. Very good, (but not the very, very best) benefits

Cons – Not a good career development pathways available. Salaries are competitive, but don't offer the private sector benefits like significant stock options. Conservative business approaches.

Pros – Great Mission
Modern Facility
Starbucks
Gift Shop
Garden

Cons – No room for growth
Focused way to much on the amount of $$ they can make from surgeries
Does not invest in their employees
Unskilled mangement
Good old boys/girls club, if your in it your golden if your not your sunk

Advice to Senior Management – Invest in your employees. Don't just talk the talk, but walk the walk.

Pros – The collaborative culture along with the innovative spirit
Helping Kids and Families
Great co-workers who care about the work they do
Excellent benefits
Emphasis on public transit and the free bus pass + commuter bonus makes it easy to do the right thing

Cons – Non-profits have challenges with matching industry salaries
Distance between hospital and research campus means travel to some meetings takes more time than I'd like
Not the best IT infrastructure can be a challenge at times

Advice to Senior Management – Change management is essential
Remember how important all three entities are to the success of the whole

Pros – Qualified professionals who really care about what they do
Great hours
Comfortable building
Kind Staff who genuinely love their profession

Cons – The work can be demanding at times, but this is what is required to work here. You are very busy.

Advice to Senior Management – Hire more workers to compensate for the workload

Pros – Supportive of me pursuing my degree and gave me flexiblity in my schedule around finals, etc. Compensation was excellent. Everyone who works there is nice- it was a great culture and so "bad apples" stuck out. Peers and management offered praise often.

Cons – Some "premature promotions" into supervisor roles- overworked role so only newbies wanted it, often lead to problems having new people leading the very experienced.

Pros – People want to help the children.

Cons – Technical project management is bit thin.

Advice to Senior Management – Scale out.

Pros – Great mission
Top-notch medical experts providing comprehensive, compassionate patient care
Excellent researchers doing critical work to finding cures for childhood diseases
Facility is child and family friendly

Cons – Upper management is a good ol' boys club.
Many administrative management staff is non-effective and have risen to the position due to years at the company rather than talent to do the job - the barnacle effect.
Opportunity for advancement and career development is lacking.
Administrative management falls down on the job setting an example of "ART - Accountability Respect & Teamwork"

Advice to Senior Management – Hire professionals with the skills and experience to do the job well. Rid your company of the toxic managers and directors who are not equipped to do the job. Listen to your employees. Walk the talk.

Pros – Reputation, which now amazes me. Not sure how a hospital with such broken systems and management is able to succeed, however those at the front lines - docs, nurses, etc. are what make the hospital work. They would have to love their job and the mission to stand working there with some of the managers in place.

Cons – Poor management. The men and women who make up much of the mgmt team are not there due to stellar mgmt skills ... at all. They are there because of number of years they've worked there. Since Children's does not have a layoff policy, instead of bad performance being weeded out, they remain ... making it miserable for the minority ... the folks who actually care about their jobs and are stellar performers.

Advice to Senior Management – Although a no-layoff policy is a great idea for the sense of job security for employees, the cost is iincompetence permeating the organization. The focus should be to weed out and bring in top performers and keep those deserving employees a reason to enjoy their jobs and remain with the organization.