Blue Shield Of California Employee Reviews about "upper management"

Pros

Benefits are great for me! There is a substantial discount on my health plan, as well as awesome benefits such as free undergrad and graduate degree programs from Ashford University, a paid sabbatical every 5 years and more! Management puts a lot of effort to make it a "great place to work" and I have been very happy for the last 4 years with their efforts!

Cons

Like any place, there are pockets/silos with some teams and departments. Upper management has been working to re-organize and that seems to have helped. There also are some pockets of politics, but again that is with any where you go. Overall, the good outweighs the bad. I feel my direct manager is genuinely interested in my growth and really fights for his team, and that is worth its weight in gold for me.

Pros

Flexible work hours and location

Cons

No opportunity for growth, promotion, or development for minority employees. Leadership and upper management lack diversity

Pros

We get to help Californians receive healthcare.

Cons

BSC is not kind to many of its employees. Upper management states they want to be recognized as a Great Place to Work yet they continue to send work off-shore during the COVID crisis. I'll never forget how we were micromanaged and distrusted with our time when we started working from home due to the shelter in policy. The additional anxiety this created during this time of crisis was unjustified. We have been dedicated employees for years, yet treated like excess collateral.

Pros

Opportunities for advancement, decent benefits and great people to work with

Cons

There have been layoffs every year for the past 6 years usually between Jan - Mar. During Jan to Mar, everyone is on edge wondering if we'll be the ones to get the ax this time around. There have been several instances where entire teams have been let go only to find out they were needed and having to reallocate employees to take over the work. BSC also decided a couple years ago to do away with our pension plan. They did increase the 401k contributions, but this doesn't make up for the pension a lot of us were counting on for retirement. The pay is decent, but competitors pay much more for the amount of work that is expected of us. Some of us do the job of 4-5 people, but we are not compensated for taking on additional duties. Favoritism is also a huge problem starting from the upper management level such as Director. They will try to say that they do not play favorites, but it's pretty apparent.

Pros

Generous PTOs. Flexible hours, flexible work from home policy. There are some good structures there for new employees, and different employee networks you can join.

Cons

There's decent amount of bureaucracy. Some decisions made by upper management are just not innovative. For folks doing analytics work, data integrity and data availability seems like a unresolvable issue.

Pros

Decent pay. Decent benefits. Team building.

Cons

Tons of upper management turnover. The directors and managers who have stayed lead by fear. No job security. Any time you ask a question about direction of company you get targeted. Not a healthy environment. The janitorial services are abhorrent, the bathrooms and break rooms are disgusting and often not even stocked with the bare minimum (t.p). Desks, monitors, chairs are all outdated and broken.

Pros

Flexible work schedule including opportunity to work from home, good managers, great people/teams, inclusive of different cultures including LGBTQX, focus on helping women lead, nonprofit helps focus on customer needs. People truly want to do the right thing by members.

Cons

Can be hard to get things done. Bureaucracy, particularly in IT and purchasing makes me want to tear my hair out. Upper management not connected with workers very well. Mistakes not tolerated well. HR consulting difficult to obtain.

Pros

Great company, flexibility, good pay and benefits. Great people. Great group of people to with with. Company had a great mission. Great career opportunities available. .

Cons

Bad hiring in TA department at upper management level seems to be an issue. One of the TA leaders in Talent department has trouble building relations, and managing personal and highlighted his favorites. One of his favorites was inappropriate relation. He dismissed serval good staff members to keep a member he admired who had trouble with the role.