Symbria Reviews

New regional manager came in Chicago area and everything has just gotten real bad. Never ending push for concurrent and group therapy which is unethical and treatments that does not just benefit the patients. Started to roll out policies that just does not make sense like working on a weekend holiday and taking a day off during the week. New manager from Missouri just wants to make all the therapists’ lives worse while she sit and work from home. Lots of great therapists left because of poor management. This company really starts to feel like a select rehab wannabe. I won’t be surprised if they are bought out by select rehab. Same unethical people manning the management. Very sad.

There are lots of facets to this company so your mileage may vary. Generally if you work at Corporate or in management be prepared for an incredibly frustrating experience. The company is trying to sustain rapid growth but does not involve any of the staff or management in any kind of decision making or planning for this growth. Growth related projects or initiatives are usually sprung on you at the last minute with no regard for existing workload. Executive leadership makes almost every decision in a vacuum and fails to communicate these decisions effectively more often than not. There are miles and miles of red tape to get anything done. Any initiative you're involved in will likely take longer to get approved/reviewed/signed off on than to actually complete. Symbria hires a lot of very capable staff and ties their hands behind their back with red tape and poor communication. Executive leadership is notoriously nitpicky and impossible to please. There is a clear culture of superiority among the executive leadership that makes many employees feel disrespected on a regular basis. Be ready to spend more time tweaking your work to the random whim of a C level rather than something actually important to the ESOP. Though this company is an ESOP I felt I had less input than any other company I've worked for. Benefits change significantly every year and get slightly worse every year. Work life balance is not a thing here because the only way to meet the absurd demands of leadership is to work constantly.