Kaiser Permanente Reviews

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

Pros – Kaiser provides good pay and benefits. Unions represent most employees.

Cons – Because of the unions, staff gets away with not doing work. Salary is not based on merit. Prejudices run wild.

Advice to Senior Management – Recognize top performers with more than a star on a chart. Remove lower and middle management that allow or instigate trouble within the staff, such as petty fighting, racial prejudices, gossip instead of work, etc.

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 less than a year

Pros – high pay with great benifits

Cons – union labor and management is okay

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 3 years

Pros – Lot's of opportunity if you work hard

Cons – Large, complicated and departmentalized organization

Advice to Senior Management – Walk the operations more

Current Employee – been working at Kaiser Permanente full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – Salary
Decent Benefits
Diverse
Community Involvement
National Company with Opportunity to Transfer

Cons – Treacherous Management
Micromanaging from HR to Supervisor
Heavy -handed and unevenly dispensed disciplinary actions
Varying Expections from Facility to Facility and Department to Department
Tremendous Redtape
Understaffed by Design
Ivory Tower Out of Touch Administration in Georgia Region

Advice to Senior Management – Listen to those who actually work in your frontline, clinical, important healthcare positions. HR department is inept and completely out of touch with those of us who actually work in healthcare. Your Medical Office Administrators are given more power than those who supervisor departments. Some of us feel as if we have multiple supervisors. Those who are in meetings all week, at the computer and detached from the action cannot fully know what's going on in your company. We are exhausted and feel like the sparingly given "pat on the back" is merely lip service. We are not thriving in the healthcare positions that make your company what it is. The constant knit picking, computer based training, etc. that never seems to end along with all the everchanging paperwork makes for a worn out workforce.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

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 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 full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Great benefits, diverse company, many opportunities. Flexible schedule.

Cons – A large, complex organization with a lot of politics. Too many processes.

Advice to Senior Management – Communicate. Listen to your employees.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Kaiser Permanente full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Great pay compared to other entities.

Cons – Non-union means lower raises and higher co-pays

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 as an intern

Pros – Friendly environment and the management really invested into the interns.

Cons – Other interns had managers that were too busy to give them work, but mine was great! They should probably implement a way to monitor the value of the internship program to both parties (the intern and the company).

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

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

Pros – Good Working Environment
Telecommuting supported by management
Great co-workers

Cons – As any company Politics plays a role in certain things

Advice to Senior Management – Think outside the box

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend