Cambia Health Solutions Reviews

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Seattle is boring, pretty boring.

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The company isn't organized to fulfil the mission and vision. Cambia actively waste millions of dollars on unvalidated products and service assumptions in addition to the overlapping efforts of siloed teams that never communicate with each other. The management teams (including marketing) aren't great at creating strategies. They are good at creating powerpoint decks, numerous meetings to talk about doing work, then leaving teams of people out to figure it all out on their own. There is no upper management accountability. Amazon Health, Google Health, Apple Health, Kaiser, United Health, Microsoft, etc are positioned to eat Cambia's lunch within 2-5 years.

"Person-focused" should mean that the business is informed by the customers & consumers' needs. These needs should drive the strategy, not some good 'ol boy's opinion or a poorly devised product roadmap!

Finally, all businesses in Cambia should learn how to set success metrics and measurable outcomes. All they care about are sales, product output & features, and "consumer engagement" campaigns that push people to irrelevant or unwanted content and experiences.

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If you're a woman, work here ONLY if you're okay with men and women (equal opportunity harassment!) continually winking at you, people putting their arms around you, suggestive comments from all managerial levels, a sexist, bro culture. And if you comply and go along with all of this-- there is no guarantee it will help you up the ladder. You must know how to navigate this morass.

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Can be difficult to get assigned to interesting projects

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I have never worked in a company where there is so much pressure to find ways to work with the Catholic church. It took me by surprise. I struggle to find the best way to support my LGBTQ direct reports. I had several people pull me aside to suggest I be careful with how visible I am with my efforts. I sense there is an interest in becoming more inclusive but some values still have a strong undertone set and allowed to continue by executive leadership. When I started two years ago, I was excited to hear a great deal of talk about servant leadership. It was one of the reasons I accepted the position. Unfortunately, there is little I can point to where this is practiced. It is not something that is done overnight, but would like to see more proof points this is something Cambia is leaning in on for the long term.

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Not enough hours and protocol could be better

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Can be a bit conservative but that is market norm. Progressive on digital

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Dysfunctional management, broken culture, harassment of employees by managers is condoned.

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Poor execution of vision, saying all the right things then deciding to address issues 'next year'. If every year we're going to fix things next year, we're not really ever going to fix anything.

Lack of peer accountability and interdepartmental coordination is making Cambia a synergy black hole. Many people seem interested in fixing that, but none of them are actually willing to innovate or challenge the status quo to do it.

The company also seems to be more interested in the pet projects of senior manahement than improving health plan operations. Technological infrastructure about five to ten years behind other major insurers.

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Middle management is a political s---hole. Minimize exposure and life is good as an individual contributor. I have had 4 outstanding managers, 1 good manager, and 2 terrible managers here (lot of re-orgs and manager turnover plus couple of job moves I made = 1 new manager per year on average...would prefer 2-3 years per manager).