Pros
Beautiful campus and a strong sense of product value and commitment to members. Most teams strive for work/life balance and work cooperatively between each other. You can work at Premera for years and find it a wonderful place to grown and learn without experiencing the cons listed below. Or, you might run right into them.
Cons
The company is great at setting a strategic vision and poor with actually executing on that vision. There is a strong insecurity among the leadership caused by general lack of strategic clarity. Everyone is jousting for a place at the table and to be the one with the bright idea that steers the ship through health care reform, causing general confusion over who is actually steering, who should get credit for steering, when to take risks and when to play it safe. There is an atmosphere of fright and paranoia hovering over most major initiatives as the company has a culture of idolizing a manager or leader one season, to then have an initiative change ownership, be deemed a failure, and that manager or leader be forced to resign. Depending on your team, this has a trickle down effect to staff.