Kaiser Permanente Reviews

Pros

Great health and retirement benefits. Flexible work hours and great coworkers. Vacation, sick and time off package in general is great. Salary is decent.

Cons

Direct IT managers have poor management and people skills. They do not follow the company procedures and expect their direct reports to do the same. Information technology managers are not trustworthy. They encourage employees to tattle. They are petty.

Advice to Senior Management

Get training on how to manage people in order to encourage excellent performance. Encourage positive work environment and not devision among employees. People work better when the work enviromnent is less hostile.

Pros

security, current difficult environment for new practitioners

Cons

you become a drone, you occupy a place in a mechanical nonflexible system for providing care. Not at all fulfilling.

Advice to Senior Management

look beyond the current stilting ways of doing things

Pros

Benefits are super rich. The company travels well.

Cons

Great place for the complacent to spend time until retirement; unrelenting and grippingly slow structure makes it nearly impossible to innovate; senior leadership continues to drink kool-aid of their own making, so it tastes extra sweet from their own perspective; lifers are only interested in protecting their own jobs and those that they like; tons of inefficiency and waste; ridiculous focus on things that don't matter but make everyone look good; good people leave or are absorbed into te culture to work side by side with the zombies who just plod from meeting to meeting to meeting.....

Advice to Senior Management

Wake up.

Pros

great benefits, pay, and hours.

Cons

not enough coverage when people call in sick

Advice to Senior Management

hire enough staff to cover others when not at work

Pros

Great benefits. Opportunities to advance.

Cons

Bureaucratic and slow to change.

Advice to Senior Management

Use your common sense to solve problems.

Pros

kaiser permanente is a great model for health care. It has good brand recognition and the environment is a great place to work

Cons

Kaiser permanente is a large organization. Things move slowly, but they do move. You need to get geared toward the KP system.

Pros

Flexibility. Good vacation and good pay.

Cons

Working in research can sometimes poise lots of deadlines.

Pros

I have a great boss who encourages teamwork, sharing of best practices and thinking outside the box. She is quick to praise for a job well done and very appropriately provides constructive criticism when needed. She stands up for her team and realizes that by giving credit to others when due we all win. She understands that by encouraging us to be the best we can be and to be successful, ultimately the whole team is successful.

Cons

Antiquated administrative systems, having to deal with union administrative staff that have no sense of urgency, some upper management that only want to hear the good and do not want to hear about the challenges in the market.

Pros

Pay - You definately get paid well for all of the BS and degradation you receive.
Benefits - Great benefits

Cons

IT Ohio Region is a total joke. The department is run like a kindergarten class/Union shop. Management style is total old school and favoritism comes from doing it their way, length of tenure, entitlement and the Popularity score.

If you have a mind of your own, common sense and good ideas, this is not the place for you.

If you have specific career goals, this is not the place for you.

If you like doing things that don't make sense and can keep your ideas to yourself, you will do well here.

If you like management deciding your career path for you, you will love this place.

They say that KPIT Ohio is the little region that could. I would say it's the little region that can't and just wont die. It looses millions every year and the facilities and physicians are low quality and over worked.

Most people in IT talk a good talk and have great status reports but nothing to back any of it up.

They always say they want change but they never do anything about it and repramand any one that tries.

Advice to Senior Management

Empower your employees. Some of you need to stop micro mananaging them. Stop acting like you know something about the department you are managing just because you read a book on the subject. If you don't really know, let the experts shine. Show respect for your employees.

Pros

Medical and dental benfits excellent.

Cons

Upper management lack of insentitivity toward employees who face bereavement.

Advice to Senior Management

Be compassonate