Kaiser Permanente Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Kaiser Permanente

Pros – good benefit with higher pay

Cons – mopping the floor all day

Current Employee – been working at Kaiser Permanente full-time

Pros – Free benefits is great. Opportunity to rise to other jobs, regardless of where you start. Plenty of entry level positions. Kaiser also helps pay for schooling if your career is going to be with them.

Cons – Quality of work varies from department to department. While maintaining the highest patient satisfaction, my department has so many internal problems that it makes one wonder why they haven't quit yet. Management doesn't do much to help the situations either.

Advice to Senior Management – Be harsher on employees, being a good manager doesn't necessarily mean you have to be a bad guy to your workers.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Kaiser Permanente full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Generally fair management, great pay and benefits.

Cons – Expectation is to work 60 hrs per week, on average,if you are a manager

Advice to Senior Management – 3 words. Life work balance.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Kaiser Permanente full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Very good benefits, especially health benefits. Management strongly encourages employee learning and development

Cons – Some managers show too much favoritism overlooking qualifed staff with years of experience and training. Some fail to take the necessary corrective action steps; leads to low morale in some departments

Advice to Senior Management – Need to to recognize when some supervisors/managers need additional leadership training and/or correction themselves. Acknowledge/promote qualified employees more often.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Kaiser Permanente full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – You are but a speck on the radar with 190k employees. You need to choose your projects wisely to get attention. Stealth mode can pay off handsomely if you spring your project on the right person.

Cons – Now I know how passengers on the Titanic felt. I've never work with a company so large and fearless that it moves in a direction regardless if you think it is sane or not.

Former Employee – worked at Kaiser Permanente part-time for more than a year

Pros – Fun people, and good working environment.

Cons – Can be boring, and people always want to complain to everyone even if in a completely unrelated department.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Kaiser Permanente as a contractor for less than a year

Pros – people here are kind and committed to that the work they do. they sincerely believe in team work and strive to support one another with all tasks. work really is 9-5, they honor your life outside of work and don't expect you to give more than is outlined upon your initial hire. in that regard, there is honor and respect for one another as co-workers and it breeds a certain type of "can do" attitude.

Cons – people are overweight and unhealthy which is sad and ironic given kaiser is a healthcare organization. seems kaiser is not concerned with supporting the health and physical well-being of their employees. office environment is drab and uninspiring. for these reasons it is an attractive place to work.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Kaiser Permanente full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Employee health benefits very good.

Cons – Management disconnect with frontline staff.

Advice to Senior Management – Shadow employees to get in touch with reality.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Kaiser Permanente full-time

Pros – Good benefits, great co-workers, challenging work. Innovation highly encouraged.

Cons – Management would tell you to speak up and provide feedback to make it a better place to work...but if you do, you will feel the heat. Be quiet and just do your work. Also, no matter how hard you work, if you are not liked, manager will find a way to force you out. Balance of work / life on a decline.

Advice to Senior Management – Please be serious about listening to employees' feedback from the annual survey. Your "fixes" do not target the geist of the feedback.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Kaiser Permanente as an intern for less than a year

Pros – NOTE: Worked at company HQ in Oakland.
Good office location, close to downtown Oakland, Lake Merritt, BART, and other transit options.
Great people who truly care about their company's mission. My boss brightened up an otherwise boring job.
Enjoyed weekly email "Messages from the CEO." He seems to truly care, as well.

Cons – NOTE: Worked at company HQ in Oakland.
Limited outlets for creativity.
Claustrophobic work environment full of cubicles, artificial light, and secluded offices. You'd think a health-focused company would place higher value on employee health & happiness at the office...
Tightening budgets appear to be limiting opportunities for innovation and concentrating funding on core services.
Very bureaucratic at times. Old systems (think pre-digital) can make it difficult to find the information you need. But I know they're trying to digitize the massive business...

Advice to Senior Management – Remember that the "Thrive" campaign mission can apply to employees, too.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend