Premera Blue Cross reviews

3.0

38% would recommend to a friend

(1,007 total reviews)
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Jeff Roe

42% approve of CEO

31% positive business outlook

Premera Blue Cross has an employee rating of 3.0 out of 5 stars, based on 1,007 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Premera Blue Cross employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Insurance industry (3.6 stars).

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2.0
Feb 13, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

Good food and prices offered in building 4 cafeteria.

Cons

Cut out middle management, look at the processes in place. You want to save paper, but you aren't utilizing the phone to get answers. Just sending out letters that document you made contact with the insurance applicants. It's wasting time, to people who clearly need coverage sooner not later. You have contractors telling other contractors what there job and duties are. This is causing errors and mistakes and mismanagement of the contractors to not perform as well as they could be - if they were managed by Premera permanent employees. It is not a fair situation. If I had known I never would have taken the position. It ended abruptly with a lack of consideration from middle management not even having the decency to explain why. It left me cold. I can only wonder the impact of how the customers who look for getting health insurance here feel. There is a disconnect here from management, Premera employees and the contractors brought in. This could be more successful, but it fails because you don't counsel the temps as to what is being done incorrectly. You just remove them and don't tell them why.

2.0
Feb 8, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Leaves time for family life Wages plus bonus make it hard to leave. It's located north of Seattle. Reasonably easy to escape the concrete Jungle

Cons

Leadership isn't looking for employee contribution. Managers have their pets who have been there a long time and been following bad practice since they started. Thus, the rest of the employees are beaten down left to push the button. Many of the employees that have been doing the job are even hired internal are not qualified to do what they do. Their idea is as long as everyone is following the process then everything is happy, happy. They scoff at industry practice. Push the button with a smile.

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