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    Banfield Pet Hospital Reviews

    Updated September 23, 2017
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    1. Featured Review

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      "Love it here!"

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      Current Employee - Talent Acquisition in Portland, OR
      Current Employee - Talent Acquisition in Portland, OR
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at Banfield Pet Hospital full-time (More than 3 years)

      Pros

      Opportunities for growth and development, fair compensation, great benefits, rewarding work, and a principled work environment.

      Cons

      You must be comfortable with change in order to succeed here.

      Banfield Pet Hospital Response

      Aug 18, 2017 – Banfield Pet Hospital

      We are delighted to hear that you are enjoying and loving your experience working with us. Thank you for sharing your thoughts.

      --- Banfield Pet Hospital

    2. "Corporate sucks, but clinic leaders are great."

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      Current Employee - Veterinary Assistant in Portland, OR
      Current Employee - Veterinary Assistant in Portland, OR
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Disapproves of CEO

      I have been working at Banfield Pet Hospital part-time (More than 3 years)

      Pros

      Flexible hours, always something to learn.

      Cons

      Corporate doesn’t care much about anything except making money, and people in the clinics feel the tension from that.

      Advice to Management

      Treat your workers like people that need to live on their salary.

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    3. "Vet Assistant"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee in Wylie, TX
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee in Wylie, TX
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      No opinion of CEO

      I worked at Banfield Pet Hospital full-time (More than a year)

      Pros

      Great place to learn, great benefits, flexible schedule, PTO

      Cons

      Long hours, heavy OT, You stay on you feet, very busy.

      Advice to Management

      I have no works. Hug corporation. Great benefits and training opportunities.

    4. "Veterinary Assistant"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee

      I have been working at Banfield Pet Hospital full-time

      Pros

      Very educational - you can actually help people.

      Cons

      Pay is becoming much less than what the job responsibilities are worth.

    5. "Good place to learn"

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      Former Employee - Veterinary Assistant/Client Service Coordinator in Houston, TX
      Former Employee - Veterinary Assistant/Client Service Coordinator in Houston, TX

      I worked at Banfield Pet Hospital full-time (More than 3 years)

      Pros

      Easy to get hired. Great place to learn technical skills to be a vet tech.

      Cons

      Pay is very low.

      Advice to Management

      Invest in your employees.

    6. "Veterinary Assistant"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee

      I have been working at Banfield Pet Hospital part-time (More than 3 years)

      Pros

      Provide full training - went in with no small animal experience, came out with full vet tech skills (restraint, blood draws, IV catheters, Anesthesia monitoring, ect.)
      Good place to get veterinary technician training/experience without having a CVT degree

      Cons

      Low pay
      Long, very busy hours
      High turnover

    7. "Thoughts After 4 Years"

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      Current Employee - Veterinary Assistant in Ann Arbor, MI
      Current Employee - Veterinary Assistant in Ann Arbor, MI
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      No opinion of CEO

      I have been working at Banfield Pet Hospital full-time (More than 3 years)

      Pros

      flexible scheduling; 3 free Optimum Wellness Plans per year for your pets; and comprehensive benefits for full-time associates, including medical/dental/vision coverage, FSA/HSA options, and a 401k

      Cons

      Lots of variability between hospital and regional practices. Hospital variability is to be expected due to the flexibility offered doctors to practice their own medicine. However, one region will hard-line a set of company standards while another might nearly ignore them. This makes for a learning curve on which foci are valued when transferring, and I have seen the resulting emphases on prices and procedures throw off several customers who have made interstate moves as well.

      Advice to Management

      Go back to hiring lower management more from within the company; it is tedious to argue quality of medicine with management that is more focused on cost and other statistics-based goals while having little or no medical background to understand which actions might be ill-advised or which best-practices should not be meddled with.

    8. "Nice at the hospital level, bad in corporate"

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      Current Employee - Client Service Coordinator
      Current Employee - Client Service Coordinator
      Recommends
      Neutral Outlook
      Disapproves of CEO

      I have been working at Banfield Pet Hospital full-time (More than a year)

      Pros

      Benefits for full-time start at 35 hours
      Flexible scheduling
      Fair starting pay
      Pet loving workplace

      Cons

      Huge disconnect between corporate and front-line workers

      Advice to Management

      Stop making random hospital/market-wide changes and thinking your decisions are best for hospitals when you guys do not work a single day a month at the hospitals.

    9. "Learn a lot and good pay but high turnover and overworked"

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      Former Employee - Veterinary Assistant in Atlanta, GA
      Former Employee - Veterinary Assistant in Atlanta, GA
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      No opinion of CEO

      I worked at Banfield Pet Hospital part-time (Less than a year)

      Pros

      There are a lot of Benefits
      A lot of room to learn
      Good Team members
      Work hands on with pets

      Cons

      Overworked and high turn over. Unstable schedule. Frequently understaffed. Bad communication with management. Doctors tend to be stressed out and not enough time to communicate with clients.

    10. "Advancement"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee

      Pros

      Advancement opportunities do exist to a certain level

      Cons

      Too much direction from corporate

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