Blue Shield Of California Reviews

Pros

Great culture and work-life balance. Generous compensation and benefits. Mission-driven, non-profit organization who is trying do the right thing in our complicated US health care industry.

Cons

A large, older company in a highly regulated industry can be a little bureaucratic at times. Lots of great employees but it can be a little hard to get things done or innovate at times.

Pros

If you're motivated by money, there is an annual cash bonus. But it comes at a tremendous personal and professional cost.

Cons

I spoke up about some alarming problems, illegal behavior, and unethical actions from management. HR did nothing, which is expected since they are hired to protect the employer. The problems are so numerous I had to file with the Civil Rights Department, who is now investigating. There is no amount of money (pension, bonus, salary) that can substantiate this kind of behavior. It's ironic that there is an internal whistleblower hotline, which doesn't serve as anything except a check-the-box feature that was dead on arrival.

Pros

I love the team I work with and my manager does his/her best to make us feel happy at work.

Cons

Upper management has no clue what we do and no appreciation for the work we do such as by giving nurses pay raises to keep up with inflation or at least half. We are told to hold on that things will get better, but depending on whether you live in the rest of CA or bay area where corporate is, nurses don't get increases to keep up with cost of living.

Pros

Great benefits especially Holidays, PTO and 401K

Cons

Most of the folks are trying to please the leadership instead of focusing on work. This is pretty common with few folks reporting to CIO, also lot of undeserved self promotion. In IT people are always trying to put positive spin on things that have not gone well especially failed initiatives. There is fair amount of fleecing by vendors who have several hundred of contractors, BSC is not getting its money’s worth. The hourly rates are 20-30% higher then smaller vendors providing technical resources.

Pros

The 401k match is good

Cons

There is a lot of inconsistency in the way jobs are leveled. I've seen PMs within the same business unit and similar type roles get hired in as senior or consultant who have more experience than some principals (for any external readers, the levels for PM go senior, consultant, principal). I've also observed some principals who require quite a bit of hand holding from the consultant/senior levels. There's also a lot of inconsistency in what you need to do to get promoted. When it comes to pay, BSC keeps talking about "equitable pay" and there being no gap when it comes to gender and race. Ok great, but how do we know you are doing that? Employees ask what is being done to make sure current employees aren't being punished for staying a long time by having new hires come in at a higher rate and the response is always that it's not happening and everyone is paid fairly based on experience. That is objectively not true. I've had several referrals who have similar or less experience than me interview at BSC for the same level role and they told me what they were being offered and it is always way higher. I wish there was something that could be done to remedy this as I'm getting to the point where I may have to start looking externally just to be able to keep my standard of living.

Pros

Some coworkers were friendly and helpful. Summer Fridays were nice when we had them. work from home was nice.

Cons

more lines of business required to learn w/o pay increase, no cost-of-living increase. no formal training. they had us create process mapping and document our workflow and then laid us off. Great place to work survey was sent out after they would bribe us with pizza parties. Give you projects to work on, when you apply for the job related to the project, you don't get the job. They just give it to someone else.

Pros

nothing good about this company

Cons

poor communication, gaslighting supervisors, for a company that has been around it acts like everything is new and they have no idea what they are doing. very poor training. constantly changing things with out notice and making them mandatory. can't us PTO when u want until you have been there for 5 years.

Pros

Benefits , can reimburse for tuition

Cons

Blue shield is pretty hard to transition into other departments. A lot of great leaders but needs to raise pay. PTO is calculated to 3 hrs including and additional 3 hrs for wellness time off. Only benefits the company.

Pros

Stable job as long as your competent.

Cons

No room for growth. Stressful, too many people have their own way of doing things instead of just following one method to get things done.

Pros

Great work-life balance if you take it; good supplemental benefits such as sabbaticals, working remotely, allowing time to balance personal life.

Cons

The company as a whole lacks strong leadership. Direction constantly changes; requests are made and expected to be turned around immediately, then results discarded and a new ask. Lower level leadership (Manager/Director levels especially) speak negatively about other levels (VPs, SVPs, C level) and confirms lack of clear direction.