Kaiser Permanente Reviews

I worked at Kaiser Permanente full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – Great benefits; great salary; practically every sort of field, job, or discipline under the sun; brilliant people; my job allowed me to foster relationships with hundreds of people throughout the US.

Cons – Depending on the department, there may be little chance for advancement opportunities. Salary increases tend to be small - typically 2-4%. Highly regulated organization (Federal, State, Local), so there are strict limitations on business processes, etc.

Advice to Senior Management – Consider increasing "rank & file" staff in your department - those who must handle the daily work to keep everything running - in addition to creating and filling senior leadership roles.

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

I have been working at Kaiser Permanente full-time for more than a year

Pros – + very competitive starting salary and annual increases (I received two raises after 1.5 years on the job)
+ industry-leading benefits - PTO that really adds up given your years of service, and top notch health insurance, vision and dental
+ management really wants you to learn and develop, and encourages you to take classes to get where you need to go professionally
+ if you are willing to be pro-active and take the initiative, there are many things to learn and it will make you look good for other jobs later on or if you decide to transfer to another facility
+ large enough organization so that there are opportunities wherever Kaiser has a presence

Cons – - because it's such a large organization, things tend to move slowly, there's a ton of red-tape, and sometimes you need to wait on approvals from higher-ups just to get anything done
- IT sometimes leaves alot to be desired - long hold times to get help and unexplainable lag in order to get certain software installed or to be provided access rights to data systems
- frequent excuse-making for low-performers/lazy employees
- sometimes management and staff lose sight of the fact that we are here for the members and instead these same people act in their own self interest in order to make themselves look good to upper management
- way too many meetings! sometimes people have to work (unpaid if salary) OT just to get work done.

Advice to Senior Management – > cut down on meetings. seriously, if you cut 50% of meetings, you'd be amazed at all the things that can get accomplished
> call out those people who make excuse after excuse and make them accountable to fix the problems or you'll find someone who can
> other than that, keep doing what you are doing to keep this a great work environment.

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

I have 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

I have been working at Kaiser Permanente full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – Great Benefits, Good Pay, Lots of opportunities

Cons – Heavy Work Load in patient care areas.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I have 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

I have 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

I have 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

I have 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

I have been working at Kaiser Permanente full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – Flexible hours and pay and benefits.

Cons – I don't really have anything negative to say about Kaiser.

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

I 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.