Kaiser Permanente Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Kaiser Permanente part-time

Pros – Great environment. They cater to their employees

Cons – hard to get on to begin with.

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

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

Pros – Job security. The ability to work in different cities and still work for the company. Always on the Cutting edge for what's new in healthcare in America. I'm proud to work here and proud to be associated with an Organization that works towards being the best place to receive care and the best place to work. Excellent pay, benefits and stability if you work hard and care about our mission.

Cons – Internal IT systems that need to be upgraded. I'm not referring to Electronic Medical Records. Autonomy for different medical centers. The pro is the ability to be innovative and the con is there is, at times, inconsistency in business practices.

Advice to Senior Management – Continue to believe in the ideas and suggestions from the staff that have the most direct contact with our members. Staff can be innovative...tap into that resource as we embark on a new era in healthcare delivery.

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

Current Employee – been working at Kaiser Permanente full-time for more than a year

Pros – Fair benefits--although they bundle sick and vacation which is not a great offering, Also they have a fair amount of outside of work discounts like gym memberships. Desk ergonomic options are great and available--so take advantage and seating is often very crowded. Values are fantastic but.....BIG but they don't translate. THRIVE is wonderful but its an ideal customer they seek rather than a culture they foster. The Thrive patient is healthy and is independently managing their health--which is great because getting more than 15 min in front of a gatekeeper Dr. is as easy to manifest as an act of God. Nice matching in 401K and retirement but you have to be there 5 years and very few people--stay the course except the ones well over 12 years in--seems they have resigned themselves.

Cons – Very politically run company. All parts work separately from HQ because of the politics and as such-- very disparate. Management is not transparent at all. They will work you to death. Do not allow or acknowledge partner family death as time for grieving nor for taking time to attend services. Pay is extremely low-end and they will do everything they can not to negotiate with you.

Advice to Senior Management – Transparency! Practice what you preach and if you are going to work your employees to death then separate sick and vacation days. 401k vesting at 2 years as few stay for all 5.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Kaiser Permanente

Pros – Very diverse work group with great pay and benefits.

Cons – Recruitment for internal employees can be challenging. Must network if you want growth

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

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

Pros – Kaiser is out to make people healthy. It's great to know the work you put in is going towards making peoples' lives better.

Cons – Some of the office work away from the hospitals can be boring and routine, but when you hear the stories from the front lines, it's inspiring.

Advice to Senior Management – Try to keep the atmosphere fun. Laughter is good medicine, too.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

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

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.

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 10 years

Pros – Good benefit packages for their employess. Being a Kaiser member and an employee allows for your health and medical expenses to be a lot less than those who aren't Kaiser employees.

Cons – Immediate supervisors and mid level management were often heartless and seem to only care about productivity these days! They don't really know how their staff can be more productive nor are they able to model how to increase productivity in the time alloted for work. It is interesting that their motto is "Thrive" because their desire to work their employess as hard as they can to increase productivity while they strongly discourage employees from requesting overtime, even if folks have to work extra hours to complete their work, is not conducive to a "thriving" work environment. It doesn't seem to really matter if it is illegal to not provide overtime pay when employees are forced to work overtime because of the nature of their job. Management strongly discourages their front line staff from requesting overtime and make you feel like something is wrong with you for not being able to be more efficient and productive with your time even though more and more is expected from you in job responsibilities and duties. It saddens and angers me to know that this non-profit HMO can push their employees this hard and get away with it and still have a billion dollar surplus at the end of the year...it is no wonder that they have this much money at the end of the year given how they aren't really paying for the countless hours employees have to work overtime without pay. If you like volunteering during your typical workday this is the place for you (I'm being sarcastic!).

Advice to Senior Management – Stop being so top down in your decision-making process. Listen more to your employess and they might truly "Thrive" more. Let upper management know that your employees need to be paid for the many hours of unpaid overtime they put in so Kaiser members can indeed "Thrive." You should "have the backs" of your front line staff rather than always only selfishly caring about yourselves and doing what uper management tells you to do...stop being so spineless when it comes to tryly caring about the employess you supervise!

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Kaiser Permanente as a contractor for more than 7 years

Pros – Good benefits, no other pros.

Cons – Poor quality health system. See as many as you can &do not ever complain

Advice to Senior Management – Do the best YOU can & GOOD luck

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