Kaiser Permanente reviews

3.8

69% would recommend to a friend

(14,809 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 14,809 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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2.0
Oct 3, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

Kaiser has great benefits, especially generous paid time off (vacation) and, depending on your location and union (if any), generous retirement plan. Also, judging from the incompetent idiots I work with, it appears that once you manage to actually land yourself a job you are pretty much guaranteed a job for life. I've never seen anyone fired, and that includes the incompetent f***-ups.

Cons

Kaiser treats their employees miserably. They have little sense of a proper work-life balance (their "Thrive" commercials are just a bunch of feel-good propaganda, if one judges by how they treat their paid staff). Also, if you are a performer and not a slacker, working at Kaiser can be kind of demoralizing when you see that the slackers never get reprimanded for their lack of ability or participation in the total work effort, and they get the same annual review rating and salary bump that you, the always achieving super performer, get.

4.0
Oct 1, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The benefits! Kaiser has some of the best benefits available. Where else can you get a free MRI or a $5 surgery. The pay is pretty amazing as well. I make about 1.5 times more than anyone else working for another company would make in my position. Add that with the benefits and the number increases to 2.5. Did I mention 120 hrs sick leave, 40 hours life balance, and 40-160 hours vacation a year?

Cons

Some departments are very heavy on micro-management. Managers do not think things through. They simply get ideas and implement them without getting feedback from their employees. The company does not treat their employees as assets and does not have a very good recoginition program in place.

4.0
Oct 1, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

I'd have to say the best reason to work for Kaiser Permanente is the benefits. My daughter and myself have the best coverage imaginable. No copays for anything... office visits, surgery, hospital stays.... we only pay $5 for prescriptions and that is it.

Cons

I don't know how it is in other areas, but the Service Area that I work for does not do a very good job of showing their appreciation for a job well done. They make a lot of promises and then don't back them up, and it's always someone else's fault. I have received nothing but excelent reviews and taken on more work than I was hired to do, but the promotion that I was promised never came. And their explanation, someone else said that they don't have the budget for it right now. Obviously they have the budget, but why spend it if you don't have to?

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