Kaiser Permanente reviews

3.8

68% would recommend to a friend

(14,822 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 14,822 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).

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15K reviews
1.0
May 30, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

• They take development seriously, and mid-year and year-end reviews are very regimented and enforced strictly. • There are a lot of smart people who work here.

Cons

• Do not work with the Medicare line of business; the environment is toxic. They treat their internal partners horribly; make life difficult to force people to quit, publicly humiliate people in meetings, and treat vendors poorly. • Most managers manage up; it's that kind of culture. So don't expect much support from your manager, and expect to be autonomous. • There's a lack of true team cohesion. You don't really make friends here, there are no happy hours, etc. People work their eight hours and go home; it was the first job where I didn't leave having made any long-term friends. The culture seems cold and people for the most part keep their distance from each other.

1.0
Apr 6, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Kaiser medical are doing amazing things. I believe that upper management are visionaries tha have plans to greatly improve the lives of its subscribers.

Cons

Kaiser IT in Pleasanton is another story, They put 5-7 contractors in a single room, and can fit 2-3 in a closet (literally an IT closet).There is no airflow and hard to work with so much noise and distractions, Yet you are given unrealistic goals and never communicated to. Basically the ITAM program manager works full time on the East coast so you rarely see her, Worse is that she will post a job that says 6 months or 1 year and will often not honor it. This is because of poor planning and strategic direction. The Program manger relies on a few people who have their own selfish intentions to "create issues" and doesn't listen to the operational team. Worse I have seen her put down the operational team in many meetings. So often people on the project team have to feel like they have to "save" the operational team and the operational team hates that these project people come in and ask the same questions over and over. The strategy changes on a weekly basis. It's confusing and not pleasant. Projects close, open and morph about and reasons are rarely communicated to all. They have no problem humiliating contractors, making you work over 8 hours but telling you "no one EVER claims over 8 hours a day", putting you in a dark dingy place then cutting your contract early.

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