Kaiser Permanente reviews

3.8

69% would recommend to a friend

(14,828 total reviews)
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Gregory Adams

54% approve of CEO

62% positive business outlook

Kaiser Permanente has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 14,828 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
3.0
Mar 11, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The pay is good in general for RNs because KP only uses a few CNAs as runners....(but they don't really help the RNs with VS and always seem to be "busy" or nowhere to be found when you need them !!

Cons

No help, no teamwork, no CNAs only runners, KP is only preoccupied with their profit, KP doesn't care about their staff and their patients, understaffed most of the time, favoritism with CN, managers have no clue about what is going on in their own unit (depends on the unit), people are talking in their foreign native tongue on the units, different unions in different units.....some still bargaining a contract after two years, KP wants to cut its only pension plan for RNs, staff (RTs, some RNs who get better assignments than others are on the Internet all night and don't help others who are running around), most RTs don't even suction the patients and do the minimum, the supply rooms are not well supplied and some supplies are put in the wrong places all the time, some supervisors are biased, not multiethnic but mostly Phillippino,, stressful, always busy, too much to chart and not enough time to spend with the patients, charge nurses are treated much better (favoritism) no matter what mistake they do, good nurses are not rewarded but are actually depreciated, etc....

1.0
Feb 20, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Some areas have work life balance, other areas expect long hours. Kaiser has been laying off employees but the work grows. Hence long hours for many remaining employees.

Cons

Political, favoritism, management is more concerned with managing up than managing and growing their employees. Hard to move up unless you excel in politics. This is not the place to work if you believe that being smart, adding value and doing the right thing will help you move up in the organization. Marginal employees are constantly promoted because they are political, not because they improve the company or are good leaders.

3.0
Feb 2, 2013

Salaried IT employees

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

good benefits and bonus for management

Cons

Salary. Less staff and more absorption of work trying to fit 70 -80 hours in a 50-60 hour work week is stifling First started working ave 40-45 a week and now ave in excess of 60 per week because of no backfills

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