Kaiser Permanente Reviews in Los Angeles, CA Area

Pros

Benefits, location, opportunity for younger job seekers

Cons

Aging workforce
Aging IT system

Advice to Senior Management

Hirer younger people

Pros

Pay and benefits are very competative

Cons

Not as easy to move up within company

Advice to Senior Management

Lean off on the mircro managing

Pros

Great Benefits
Work/life Balance is good

Cons

Contract positions prevents growth only lateral moves
Management tries to work you like a slave if they can
Brought in tons of consultants who did just as much as everyone else but got paid a buttload more money.

Advice to Senior Management

Get rid of the consultants and pay FTE's a decent wage

Pros

Good work/life balance and friendly environment

Cons

a lot of dead weight around in the company. They never fire anyone.

Advice to Senior Management

n/a

Pros

Healthcare is an exciting area to work in. As an integrated provider with both Provider and Payer services Kaiser provides the best of both worlds. As a large organization with many members Kaiser tends to be quite stable. Kaiser sees IT as strategic and has steadily invested in it.

Cons

As with any very large organization it is easy for good ideas to be lost. The sheer size requires a lot of levels of management.

Advice to Senior Management

It is easy for creative talented people to be lost or buried in the organization due to it size. This is a loss for kaiser and for the people involved.

Pros

Kaiser Permanente has great benefits. It also really subscribes to the work/life balance. People are very understanding if things come up.

Cons

Salary raises and bonuses are small.
There is no incentive to perform well.
Promotion opportunities are far and few. Even if you do get promoted, chances are that someone coming from the outside will get paid a higher salary.

Advice to Senior Management

Foster a culture of excellence. Highly political place where people are afraid of stepping on each other's toes at a professional level.

Pros

I think they have great benefits and a great place to work

Cons

The employee reviews were not as frequent as i would have liked.

Advice to Senior Management

Give bigger raises

Pros

Very nice place to work. Cool and calm environment

Cons

A little lower in salaries that competetiors

Advice to Senior Management

More experienced people needed and less re-orgs

Pros

Good pay and benefits, compared to the industry, good traning programs and some work hour flexibity.

Cons

Lack of recognition for good performers, many management reorgations (20+ in 8 years), lack of communication among group and divisons, thus duplication of efforts.

Advice to Senior Management

"Thrive" is great slogan. Recognize and reward the achivements from all levels of staff. "Thrive" will have a new meaning to KP staff. Communicate to staff. Promote new ideas and innovations, rather than just keeping the lights on.

Pros

Benefits, longevity, raises, family orientated

Cons

not being recognized in a big sector

Advice to Senior Management

consistant with employees