Training is paid, but toxic environment and low pay - Patient Care Technician DaVita Employee Review

1.0
Jun 29, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- The training is paid.

Cons

- The Facility Manager (FA) and your Preceptor will openly lie to you to see how you respond. - You will also be constantly reminded that you will most likely be terminated. - The FA will pull you into a meeting and ask you inappropriate questions about your age, family, and social life. - You will be marked as "Under performing" if you show any emotion or not enough emotion. - They skirt around the number of hours you will be working. - You do not receive the required breaks for working 15 hour shifts. - You will constantly be told you are not doing this for the money, and that is true, The pay is horrible for everything you are put through and expected to do.

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DaVita Response
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We always appreciate the opportunity to improve, and we’d like to talk to you more about how we can do this. Please reach out to us at guestservices@davita.com or 1-800-400-8331 option 8 when you have a moment so that we may discuss your review. Thank you in advance for your time.

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-Work-life balance -Company culture -Supportive team -Good benefits -Meaningful purpose driven work -Career growth opportunities

Cons

-There can sometimes be a disconnect between frontline workers and upper management

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DaVita Response
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Thank you for your kind words! Reviews like this mean so much to us.
2.0
Jul 1, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Patient connections is rewarding work, great hands on experience, paid on the job training, training for PCTs is at least consistent.

Cons

12+ hour long hours, emotionally and physically taxing, unqualified management, poor communication, inconsistent scheduling, high turn over, very little amount of opportunity for movement within the company despite preaching that they encourage it. The culture and values are heavily spoken about with little to no enforcement. The position requires significant dedication to learn all the moving parts of the clinic.

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