BlueSprig Reviews

3.4

57% would recommend to a friend

(641 total reviews)
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Will Abbott

69% approve of CEO

57% positive business outlook

BlueSprig has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 641 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The BlueSprig employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Healthcare industry (3.4 stars).

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641 reviews
2.0
18 Jan 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The other clinical supervisors are highly talented and hard working. They are highly supportive and collaborative. Additionally, BlueSprig provides ample opportunities for CEUs.

Cons

You'll quickly find out that you're working for a company that values image, branding, and scope of influence first and foremost. It's all about being seen and hyping company values and expressing how elite an organization you work for. It all becomes pretty vacuous and superficial. All the pictures and videos of swag on LinkedIn don't compensate for overworked clinicians and RBTs. The appeal quickly loses its luster about a month in when you realize that this company is just as corporate as all of the others. Maybe it differs by region. This is a company that boasts a level playing field for all but POC are treated as diversity tokens subject to palpable microaggressions while non-POC are questioned about their career goals and ambitions. I believe this only recently started getting rectified. However, POC aren't the ones in high levels of power or title. Leadership teams are only clinical directors and operations managers, so BCBAs on the clinical supervisors, from experience, are treated as the revenue generators. Caseloads and assessments are assigned haphazardly and boundaries are often pushed or asked to waver. Clinical directors are as supportive as they can be but are also swamped with their own multitude of duties. Supervisor BCBAs are not given opportunities to access the resources provided by the company, only those considered "leadership" and so upward mobility is very challenging if not non-existent. Either you're constantly spinning a thousand plates trying to accommodate all of your billable requirements and trying to find time to do you practically unpaid non-billable work, or you're not even aware that those opportunities exist. The leadership teams end up coming across cliquish and elitist and tend to rarely be communicative or transparent about operations, often leaving the supervisor teams to fend for themselves. Non-clinical leadership members often feel empowered to speak to clinical matters in which they are not competent. The operations are often inefficient. If you watch the Aubrey Daniel's presentation of 13 management practices that waste time and money, they check every one. At the end of the day, it's only a select few that make and maintain a name for themselves in the organization. Additionally, in the region in which I practiced, success was literally boasted as how many billable hours were logged for a week, which leaves something to be said for quality of practice. You're praised for doing reports late into the night, working on weekends, and working long days to meet the needs of your families, yet you're also told that work home life balance is very important. No clinician worth their weight in gold would in good ethical conscience cut corners in their practice, and it comes across that this empathy is preyed upon, even relied upon, for organizational growth and expansion, especially since the organization cut wages and changed the pay structure entirely amidst the height of the pandemic but still had resources to facilitate two separate company acquisitions and open up and operate many new clinics across new regions. Turnover of BCBAs and RBTs was very high-- the most senior clinical supervisor by the time I left had been there no more than 3 months. TL;DR: more need for support, balance and manageable work loads, upward mobility and being given opportunities for such, and need actual clinician specific positive reinforcement to be built into operations.

1.0
22 Feb 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Close team of therapists, amazing clients

Cons

Unorganized scheduling (literally every morning was a surprise) rude upper management, no pay raises and no employee incentives. This company’s top tier pay is most clinics entry level pay. Employees have no lunch breaks, upper management prefers to bill client insurance during the 30 minute lunch period. Extremely poor communication from upper management. MOST importantly, clients needs are not a top priority to upper management. BCBA’s are very slow at updating client goals, clients seemed to regress consistently, very sad for innocent children that have so much more potential, parents are not fully aware and are wasting money.

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BlueSprig Response
4y
Flexible scheduling is helpful because the client’s schedule can change without warning.
1.0
2 Dec 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Don't get me wrong, there are good people who work there (or at least there used to be, but most of them have left) and there is the potential for good things to happen there but they keep getting in their own way.

Cons

Don't believe what you see on all the social media and all of the shiny, caring responses to negative reviews. BlueSprig is great at representing themselves in a very positive way but it absolutely does not trickle down to the people really doing the work. I truly believe that the people at the top of the chain believe they are doing well and think they are supporting staff, families, and "changing the lives of people with autism". In reality they are constantly changing processes, procedures, and expectations in a way that makes the lives of clinicians actually implementing the changes a living hell. They do not clearly communicate their expectations and do not provide the necessary supports to implement quality ABA. The actions of the corporate BlueSprig do not align with any of their values, even though they talk about their values with every chance they get. All of the pretty swag and social media posts do not make up for burning out BCBAs and RBTs so badly that they decide to leave the field. They have stopped doing performance review for clinical staff, have continually increased billable expectations for BCBAs, do not guarantee full time hours for RBTs, and the poor Operational Managers get no support or love from management.

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BlueSprig Response
4y
Thank you for your review and your time with BlueSprig. We are sorry to hear about your experience with leadership. In companies, it's common for personnel and processes to change, which can be difficult for some. However, we are always open to feedback and seeking to better ourselves in order to better serve our employees and clients. We also encourage our employees to reach out to hr@bluesprigpediatrics.com to notify them of any difficulties to ensure everyone is receiving the support they need moving forward. We will continue to follow up and follow through on all feedback and thank you for your time!
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