Conservative company in a tough industry with a steady talent drain in progress
Pros
• Good benefits with a focus on employee wellness and health. • Strong charitable contribution to the community. • Free parking and easy commute. • Lots of Admins everywhere, mostly you won’t have to handle your own calendar. • The company is trying to do the right thing to change how healthcare is utilized, making moves to control what costs they can.
Cons
• Stagnant company in an industry under fire. Before joining Premera ask yourself what will happen to the company when healthcare reform is completely implemented in 2014? • Old fashioned corporate culture. Limited new technology, most outside ideas die, rigid dress code, flexible schedules and working at home are discouraged, corporate values are used as meaningless slogans. • Heavily hierarchical and patriarchal organization with strict command and control. • Ability of management to think strategically varies widely by group, you will be micromanaged. • Many employees have never worked anywhere else. That should be healthy but somehow it isn’t. “Us versus them” is the name of the game with the lifers. • Endless staff meetings, work group meetings, subgroup meetings. 6+ hours of meetings a day is normal. • Collaborative culture run amok. Employees are not empowered to make decisions. If you like waiting for management or an entire group to decide every small point then this is the place. • Upper management talks about promoting internal changes while line level employees meet actual change with anger, fear, and sabotage.
