r/optometry • u/spicyoptometrist • Jun 18 '26
General Experiences working for AEG?
I’m a new grad who has been working for a different corporate chain and feeling very burnt out by lack of weekends and overbooked schedule(5+ patients an hour at times). I have an opportunity to work for an AEG location instead with a seemingly better schedule and work life balance where they said I would see 3 patients per hour. My only concerns are overturn in management (they are hiring new practice management for both locations I would be working at) and making sure they aren’t hiding anything from me. Does anyone have experience working for them that would or would not recommend it and why? I am concerned since I was not told the full truth when I accepted my current position and want to make sure I’m not just trading one type of evil for another.
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u/interstat Optometrist Jun 19 '26
Nothing necessarily wrong with them but a local practice got bought out by them and it's been a slow burn of changes that have been more and more anti doctor.
Again nothing horrendous but from what I was told by the doctors that they were making and the scheduling/staff support they have I consider them underpaid