Turnover in IT positions is slightly higher than most companies in the area. A lot of tribal knowledge walks out the door every month. Biggest complaint seems to be lack of direction and lack of work/life balance - which is odd since Davita is supposed to be all about being purposeful and also emphasizing the well-being of the employee. Unfortunately, those values and the catch-phrase that go with them sort of get used to justify a lot of questionable management decisions at the team level. "This is for the good of the Village" (what Davita calls itself instead of a company) gets used to justify going to pointless meetings, working late, dealing with the occasional abusive co-worker. There have been some very quiet layoffs in various parts of the company. After the massive payouts to the feds for (alleged) fraud and the expenses of building a new skyscraper in downtown Denver (some of the most expensive real estate in the American West) - those are almost to be expected. So far - these seem contained in areas outside of IT.
Perhaps most tedious on a daily level is the lack of meaningful and effective project management in IT. They've got some folks trained in Agile Scrum who don't have tech backgrounds and they sort of try to wrangle every project with Scrum terminology and processes without ever getting into the nitty gritty - or, in some cases, without even documenting a thorough project plan. It doesn't seem to work in most cases - but they sort of march bravely on despite any visible progress -reverentially talking about grooming sessions and sprints without ever catching a sight of what their end goal should look like and how to get there.
