Kaiser Permanente reviews

3.8

69% would recommend to a friend

(14,788 total reviews)
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Gregory Adams

54% approve of CEO

61% positive business outlook

Kaiser Permanente has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 14,788 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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5.0
Jun 13, 2008
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Pros

To be able to practice medicine without worrying about the overhead costs ... The job is very stable, with built-in intermittent raises and guaranteed salaries (salaries are not at risk or dependent on external forces). Good predictable hours. Relatively rare on-call hours @ nights and weekends. Excellent colleagues and team work. Plenty of educational time and opportunity to enhance yourself on personal and professional levels. Nice nurses and staff to work with. Good lunches if attending meetings. Top of the line technology, including electronic medical records at your fingertips - - never need to worry about not finding the patient's lab or radiology reports ...

Cons

Sometimes there are the necessary big company politics ... you just need to know how to work around it. Just need to be flexible and avoid certain personalities...

1.0
Jun 13, 2008
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Pros

People often join as unemployed temps. People join hoping to obtain medical care for hard to insure relatives.

Cons

KP's management is dominated by doctors and nurses. You are stepping back 25 years in corporate standards of conduct. Most software is old. Very poor benefits. Educational benefits are reimbursement of $1000/year, paid only for a class that is directly related to your current position. Dental $1000/year. Vision - all promised savings lost to the markup in the KP optical shops. Medical...Kaiser doesn't provide the quality of medical care of other medical systems. You will find you have no recourse if mistreated. Your contract provides for "arbitration". Supposedly Kaiser patients cannot sue for malpractice. You will be scolded by your friends and strangers for Kaiser's deficiencies.

4.0
Jun 12, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

Provides as secure position in a large healthcare company with ample benefits. Highly recommended to a family oriented person due to a good work-life balance. Movement within the company is generally not very easy so make sure that you enter the company at a position that you can be happy with for a long time. Kaiser has a great amount of resources and you will have plenty of opportunities for exposure to a variety of technologies and significant amounts of training and internal resources. The benefits are very comprehensive and will make it difficult for you to want to leave.

Cons

Sometimes it fails to have the excitement of working or a smaller or more nimble company. Has the red-tape of a very large company or the government.

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