Willamette Dental Group Reviews
Updated May 26, 2019
Found 206 reviews
Pros
"great benefits/401K match/lots of options/family team" (in 26 reviews)
"Good benefits, Vacation time, Opportunity to grow" (in 23 reviews)
Cons
"Long hours, limited professional autonomy, micromanagement" (in 12 reviews)
"Overworked dentists and hygentists - noncompetes make it hard to leave" (in 8 reviews)
- Helpful (2)
"A permanent stain on your resume"
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Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookDisapproves of CEOI worked at Willamette Dental Group full-time for less than a year
Pros
Benefits, PTO, and a clinically focused role.
Cons
Impossibly full schedules, micromanagement, unattainable performance metrics, contracts built to force retention, legacy focused CEO/owner, limited scope of practice, low tech equipment, and a tendency to fire anyone who dares to ask tough questions or make suggestions. As the rest of the profession moves towards digital dentistry, implant restorations, hybrid dentures, same day restorations, etc. you will get really...
Show MoreAdvice to Management
Be honest when recruiting and work on retention like your future depends on it.
Willamette Dental Group2019-05-24 - Helpful (2)
"Good benefits and pay!"
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RecommendsI have been working at Willamette Dental Group full-time for more than 5 years
Pros
Great benefits, great pay! Time off is nice! The company philosophy is great!
Cons
Working Saturdays and not being able to flex your schedule
Advice to Management
Let us flex our schedules a little more so we can be there for our families and childrens' sports events!
Willamette Dental Group2019-05-01 - Helpful (1)
"It’s an insurance company first"
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Doesn't RecommendNeutral OutlookNo opinion of CEOI worked at Willamette Dental Group full-time for more than 3 years
Pros
Benefits, paid time off, predictable work in competitive markets
Cons
Long hours, limited professional autonomy, micromanagement. The insurance is the income, dentistry is an expense.
Advice to Management
Be flexible and modernize your workplace environment and culture
Willamette Dental Group2019-05-07 - Helpful (1)
"Don’t ruin your resume"
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Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Willamette Dental Group full-time for more than 5 years
Pros
The company has a great philosophy and I love the patients and most staff. Amazing Doctors.
Cons
Very poor management. Ignore office bullying and harassment. Micro manage the hard working employees and reward the lazy, incompetent employees. Employees are afraid to speak up as they will be reprimanded, given warnings or let go. I have never seen anything like this. Long hours and brutal schedules. Quality of care is questionable.
Advice to Management
Only way it would change is to remove and replace management. Harsh but needed.
Willamette Dental Group2019-05-27 "Great benefits"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Willamette Dental Group full-time for more than 5 years
Pros
Great benefits, medical, dental, vision, PTO, holiday pay etc
Cons
Can feel stressed to meet metrics
Willamette Dental Group2019-04-16Willamette Dental Group Response
May 16, 2019 – Manager of Talent Acquisition
We appreciate your feedback and want to thank you for your 5+ years of service!
- Helpful (1)
"Room for Improvement"
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Doesn't RecommendNeutral OutlookNo opinion of CEOI have been working at Willamette Dental Group full-time for more than 3 years
Pros
Good pay, full time hours, three day weekends, overtime opportunities.
Cons
Quantity over quality, worked to absolute death with jam-packed schedules, hard to balance work/life, old technology.
Advice to Management
Management needs to take care of their employees first and foremost so that we can give the best possible care. There's too much emphasis on getting people in and out the door and it makes quality seem like it's not the primary goal.
Willamette Dental Group2019-04-25Willamette Dental Group Response
May 16, 2019 – Manager of Talent Acquisition
Thank you for your feedback. We’re proud of our electronic health record and digital radiography solutions. We’re sorry to hear you don’t feel like you have a good work/life balance. We understand it can be challenging for some to work 10 hour days, seeing patients from 7 a.m. – ...
Show More "Must be ready to be efficient, busy schedule"
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Doesn't RecommendNeutral OutlookNo opinion of CEOI have been working at Willamette Dental Group part-time for more than 10 years
Pros
Great benefits, able to focus on patient treatment without the stress of management. Group practice setting.
Cons
Frequent policy changes, both positive and negative. No salary adjustments to match lnflation. No benefits for seniority.
Willamette Dental Group2019-04-23Willamette Dental Group Response
May 16, 2019 – Manager of Talent Acquisition
We appreciate your perspective and years of service. Innovation is one of our core values, and because we practice evidenced based dentistry and follow the medical model, this requires us to change and embrace the new science and literature. Our Associate Dentist compensation is ...
Show More"Low salary, but guaranteed money"
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Pros
Guaranteed money and guaranteed hours
Cons
Low wages, no incentive to produce
Willamette Dental Group2019-04-17Willamette Dental Group Response
May 17, 2019 – Manager of Talent Acquisition
We appreciate your feedback. It’s true that we don’t focus on production but instead on getting, or keeping, our patients healthy. Associate Dentists compensation is based on Pay for Performance metrics and not the traditional fee-for-service and/or corporate insurance reimbursement.
"Just ok"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookNo opinion of CEOI worked at Willamette Dental Group full-time for more than a year
Pros
4 day work weeks, Decent benefits and numbers of patients seen wasn't overwhelming.
Cons
Long working hrs on saturdays
Willamette Dental Group2019-03-29Willamette Dental Group Response
May 20, 2019 – Manager of Talent Acquisition
Thank you for your review. Our 4 day (40 hour) work weeks with 1 Saturday per month enable our employees a better work/life balance while meeting our patients needs and desires to have Saturday appointments.
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"Micromanagement is the new normal here"
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Doesn't RecommendNeutral OutlookDisapproves of CEOI worked at Willamette Dental Group full-time for less than a year
Pros
They are able to spend money on upgrades and people that are needed at times, some good processes in place
Cons
Micromanagement and inability to listen to employees were the main factors that made me leave. I worked with a good team of people there, but the new management made me stressed out 3x more than I should have been as I was always worried about losing my job. Kept holding my 'annual review' over my head as a threat, and was always commenting that I wasn't doing my job (spoiler alert: I was doing my job+ more).
Advice to Management
Listen to what the employees say. If they go over their bosses head to tell you that there's an issue, you should take that. especially if you have several people telling you the same thing.
Willamette Dental Group2019-04-11Willamette Dental Group Response
May 17, 2019 – Manager of Talent Acquisition
Thank you for your feedback and we’re sorry to hear about your experience. If you’ve not done so already, we encourage you to complete an “Exit Interview” with our employee relations team or email wdgemployeerelations@willamettedental.com for a confidential conversation.
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Willamette Dental Group Response
May 16, 2019 – Manager of Talent Acquisition
Thank you for your feedback and we’re sorry to hear that you didn’t have the autonomy you were seeking. With more than 500,000 members and 52 practices we strive to provide continuity of care to all our patients through evidence based dentistry.