2. Fresenius
Number of employees: 112,658
Big 100 revenue ranking: 5
Glassdoor rating: 3.1/5
56% would recommend to a friend.
Fresenius claims that health is its most precious asset. One of the key assignments of employees is improving healthcare for critically ill patients and creating affordable products and treatments. The company says that if you believe in and want to dedicate yourself, you would be a perfect Fresenius employee.
Here’s what current and former employees have to say on Glassdoor:
“Pros: Advancement and cooperation; patient care; salary; friendship. Cons: Organization could be better; communication; balance isn’t there; favoritism.” —Current employee
“Pros: Great benefits; pay; great environment to work in. Cons: Turnover rate is high.” —Former employee
“Pros: Flexible hours; decent benefits; opportunity to utilize MSW training within a medical scope. Cons: There is no coverage if you take off for vacation.” —Current employee
“Pros: I like the health benefits and the people I work with; I like the office and the location. Cons: I really dislike the PTO offering and that they don’t offer any paid holidays or sick days.” —Current employee
“Pros: Flexibility of hours; mindless; repetitive day-to-day processes; fitness facility located on-site; ample parking (provided you can physically get to the facility, only one way to get to the building). Cons: Micromanagement style work environment; poor benefits; communications are almost always done through email, which can sometimes create erroneous errors and miscommunication; information consistently gets lost because no one takes responsibility for it because it is such a big company; if they don’t like you, they will inevitably push you out.” —Former employee