Kaiser Permanente reviews

3.8

69% would recommend to a friend

(14,800 total reviews)
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Gregory Adams

53% approve of CEO

62% positive business outlook

Kaiser Permanente has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 14,800 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Kaiser Permanente employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Healthcare industry (3.4 stars).

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15K reviews
2.0
May 31, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great pay, great free benefits for you and your family. Great starting pay with intensive training prior to taking calls. Clearly outlined "raise" map defined by years of service and also has a yearly "cost of living" raise.

Cons

Oh where to begin. Management is a joke. Hypocrites left and right. Have to be willing to kiss operations/team managers behinds to get ahead. Very much like high school drama environment (with grown middle aged women and men). Micro managed down to the second. Need to go to the bathroom? Be careful, you'll have 3 managers waiting at your desk when you return asking where you were. Quality assurance is also a joke, most of them have never taken calls or are a million years old and are dumb as rocks. Pleasing them is impossible, you always have to take time out of your personal time to fight them and most reviews are denied. Extremely stressful. So stressful there are workers compensation and FMLA claims left and right. Super common for employees to experience GURD or stress induced irritable bowl syndrome. Not fun. Super high turn around rate. Retaliation is definitely a thing here. Even though they stress it shouldn't be. Having union on your side only helps slightly. Once you're on their bad side, they will literally try everything humanly possible to get rid of you. Overall the morals and beliefs of management, ops, and upper management are so messed up I would never reconsider working for this company again. I did it for way too long and the pay/benefits were no longer worth my happiness and mental stability.

1.0
Mar 4, 2016

Not very minority friendly

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Decent pay and benefits.

Cons

No room to grow. During my three years there, my supervisor never approved my requests for professional development. I had a micromanaging bully of a supervisor, and unfortunately, the higher ups were deaf to the workplace problems within the organization.

1.0
Sep 17, 2015

Technology and practices from 2001.

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

If you're a "sit down, shut up and tow the party line" type person you'll work here for a really long time. Much of the company has been employed there for 10+ years.

Cons

KP is just starting to think about solving the IT problems and implementing the practices every other company solved a decade ago such as patching, rebooting, OS images, application sprawl, virtualization, ITIL/PMI standards, etc. KP still uses Lotus Notes. There is significant resistance to technology change by those who have been there a long time and the business has no interest in adopting industry standards for IT management. KP IT suffers from a complete lack of vision and principles.

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