Is Kaiser Permanente a good company to work for?

Kaiser Permanente has an overall rating of 3.8 out of 5, based on over 16,839 reviews left anonymously by employees. This rating has been stable over the past 12 months. 68% of employees would recommend working at Kaiser Permanente to a friend and 62% have a positive outlook for the business. The best reviews about Kaiser Permanente have been left by employees working as Intern - Hourly , Graduate Intern and Pharmacy Intern .

Does Kaiser Permanente pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, Kaiser Permanente employees rate their compensation and benefits as 4.2 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at Kaiser Permanente. This rating has been stable over the past 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at Kaiser Permanente?

68% of Kaiser Permanente employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated Kaiser Permanente 3.5 out of 5 for work life balance, 3.4 for culture and values and 3.5 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Kaiser Permanente?

Registered Nurse (778) , Medical Assistant (299) , Registered Nurse, BSN (276) , Customer Service Representative (252) , Project Manager (251) , Director (161) , LVN (148) , Staff RN (143) , Pharmacy Technician (136) , Physician (131) , Licensed Vocational Nurse (LVN) (130) , Intern (122) , Manager (114) , Administrative Assistant (111) , Consultant (111)

What are the pros of working at Kaiser Permanente according to real employee reviews?

"Great benefits and they work with my schedule while I am in school applying for my RN." ((in 3288 reviews)); "Great pay and resources for time spent" ((in 1880 reviews)); "As the saying goes "KP is great for people who don't need doctors...."" ((in 624 reviews)); "Great work life balance and peaceful" ((in 484 reviews)); "Good salary only and cab facility" ((in 325 reviews))

What are the cons of working at Kaiser Permanente according to real employee reviews?

"Poor management and lots of demand" ((in 781 reviews)); "Impossible for them to adequately represent you when they have the same supervisor you do and managers have access to 100% of your calls." ((in 358 reviews)); "Reactive and micromanager style senior leadership." ((in 217 reviews)); "Company does not give you access to the vacation and CE time off that you have earned." ((in 187 reviews)); "Poor customer/staff service and uninformed upper management" ((in 150 reviews))

What are employees saying about Kaiser Permanente layoffs in 2026?

Explore Glassdoor’s employee reviews to understand what current and former employees are saying about Kaiser Permanente layoffs and their outlook for job security at Kaiser Permanente in 2026.

What are the top reviewed Kaiser Permanente locations?

Oakland , Los Angeles , San Diego , San Francisco , Pasadena , Portland , Pleasanton , Sacramento , Atlanta , Denver , San Jose , Santa Clara , Fontana , Riverside , Walnut Creek , Seattle , Downey , Burbank , Rockville , Roseville , Honolulu , Vallejo , Duluth , Anaheim , Corona , Washington , Santa Rosa , Irvine , Aurora , Woodland Hills

Kaiser Permanente reviews

3.8

68% would recommend to a friend

(14,822 total reviews)

Gregory Adams

53% approve of CEO

62% positive business outlook

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Kaiser Permanente has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 14,822 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).

Reviews by job title

15K reviews

4.0

Jan 10, 2013

CSC in San Diego is a great place to work

Account administrative representative

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

The pay and benefits are good. You have an option to opt out of Kaisers benefits and receive a percentage of pay increase by doing so. There is quite a bit of training that you are allowed to take as many times as you feel the need to. Kaiser is represented by a union so the rules are really strict, but on the reverse you have to really mess up in order for them to be able to fire you. Kaiser does a lot of promoting from within. After 15 years of working with the company, upon retirement , you get lifetime benefits. The only reason I left was due to relocation.

Cons

Being part of a union, you are in trouble if you are a minute late, and will be written up after so many times. This is just one of the strict rules. You will be held accountable for your work, so it's best that you really get all you can get out of training. If you do choose to opt out of benefits, this also includes your paid vacation time. You will receive some vacation time, but it will be unpaid, including maternity leave.

2.0

Oct 22, 2012

Kiss Your Privacy Good Bye

Medical social worker

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Good referral system. Good computer system for documentation. No need to take work home with you.

Cons

Sick Sadistic compnay politics as follows: Company forces you to have Kaiser health insurance. Company policy is to provide you with confidentiality. However, there are ways to bipass this and at will, managers allow your colleagues access to your confidential medical record and the information in it is used against you.

1.0

Sep 11, 2012

Tonnes of backstabbing, not for the spineless folks out there

Data entry clerk

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

If you are one of those who can manage to pass blame to others in order to keep your job, this environment is conducive to such behavior. Once you have your foot in the door, it is easy to be given a chance to try a job and learn it in the process. If you are still on the outside, it's very hard to get in. Start with a really low position then show your other qualifications, it's easy once you are in. If you learn to stay out of trouble and stay under a good boss, there's a high chance you can remain protected. If that boss leaves, you might want to get a new one who can protect you. Like seriously, your keeping your job depends more on who can protect you than your actual work.

Cons

Because they like to promote from within, they sometimes put highly unqualified people in positions thinking that this will result in something good happening. The result is usually disastrous. They sometimes promote people to high positions without making them learn everything about the positions the new managers will oversee. This results in the managers asking for and demanding statistics which in the reality of the job, mean absolutely nothing. You have to keep quiet otherwise you could be talking to the person who will go to HR and report you. Even those that do their job well, their heads roll from time to time for some bizarre reason. It's a very unpredictable place with reorganizations taking place in departments for the entire time I was there, and I was there for four years. Not a good place for minorities even though the company boasts a lot about diversity. They still have a long way to go to stop making this diversity just window dressing.

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