Little Otter Reviews

2.7

39% would recommend to a friend

(50 total reviews)

Rebecca Egger

44% approve of CEO

35% positive business outlook

Little Otter has an employee rating of 2.7 out of 5 stars, based on 50 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Little Otter employee rating is 21% below average for employers within the Healthcare industry (3.4 stars).

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50 reviews
5.0
May 26, 2022

Great Company to Work For

Anonymous employee
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Pros

This is a female co-funded company with a scientific based focus on providing mental health care to children and families. All of these things are pros in my book!

Cons

It is an early stage company that is growing and expanding. This can be uncomfortable for some people but exciting for others. Also not everyone is comfortable with female leadership.

1.0
Sep 1, 2022

Oh the Irony...

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Great clinicians to learn from and with Decent pay and benefits for full time

Cons

Worked for this start up for over a year. They are marketed as a pediatric mental health company but it’s really just a tech company trying to capitalize on struggling parents. If you feel conflicted about companies that do not offer a sliding scale for families that can’t afford therapy, you will have a hard time here. Working for LO will mean being a mental health practitioner that strives to create a secure space for clients to be open and vulnerable while working under leadership that breeds anxiety, deception, and stress. Ironic. This is also unfortunately a very discriminative workplace, where not all clinicians are treated the same. Psychiatrists are favored and behavior analysts are treated like they are college interns. The best thing about this job will always be the connection with other clinicians, if they can manage to keep them. This is not a safe space for behavior analysts. This is not a safe space for clinicians of color. This is not a safe space for any clinician that values integrity, transparency, DEI values, or people over money.

2.0
Mar 29, 2024

High Demand / Low Reward

Recommend
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Pros

*Genuine attempt to have a high standard of clinical care. *People were generally quite kind in conversations *Their tech generally worked well and it was nice to have a Mac for a work computer

Cons

*Pay is low and based on productivity, which makes it not that different from the community mental health agencies most therapists got their start in and want out of. Of course, compared to non-profit agencies, LO has millions in VC funding and wants more. *There is zero transparency about company finances to clinicians and yet they want us to share clinical successes with future VC funding backers to support fundraising (dubious ethics here TBH) *The burden for having a high standard of clinical care is placed on therapists (which makes sense to a degree), but overworked and underpaid people are not going to be able to do this for very long or very well *

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