Pros
- Good benefits for healthcare, personal needs - Very flexible when made aware of personal situations affecting employees - Good to gain knowledge and skills in field but very limited growth opportunities other than certs
Cons
- Very disorganized project management system, objectives that read well on paper but they don't seem to be able to talk down to the people implementing the objectives how to achieve them. - In IT, an unnecessary amount of time is spent on "time tracking" --- they want to know how much time is booked against the work going on and it's a headache for employees and especially management to have to fix. - Very siloed teams --- there is very little cross team communication and collaboration at times especially since most of IT is now remote since Covid. - Education is harder since we are not on the hospital side as nurses. They have tuition reimbursement but it's for very limited IT programs. It is hard to gain new education that is "important to the business" through the current offerings. They do have suggest LinkedIn Learning, but don't have that as a current employee benefit. I have been looking for over a year to understand the project management system at Sentara. There is none. In IT - ideas get submitted to change software/do stuff and either there is a deadline and all teams other work has to get interrupted to take care of this or there is no deadline and the can gets kicked down the road. We have "Agile" teams but the organization as a whole is not at all Agile. The Ideas I have seen are sometimes what would be considered an epic --- but the engineering teams get tasked with a story or release task or project task to complete the work. The development work may take some time to go through development and testing and there is a lot of back and forth about how we know a project is done and completed. They rely on the engineers/developers to essentially have the product management / project management skills to communicate about a particular project and get it done.
