Kaiser Permanente Employee Job Reviews in the United States

"Below average."

What do you like about working at Kaiser Permanente?

"People are courteous."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Make sure you are reporting to a manager that has taken classes on how to manage."

What don't you like about working at Kaiser Permanente?

"Worst finance managers with no measurable goals and objectives."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Have measurable goals and objectives for finance managers."

"Take a look first!"

What do you like about working at Kaiser Permanente?

"The employees are very friendly."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Sell you skills in process improvement and communication. Technology is also limited."

What don't you like about working at Kaiser Permanente?

"The communication is poor. Leadership in some areas cannot be trusted, especially in Medicare."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Look at the trends for failure and identify the root cause. The breakdown is the process, not the people."

"I still consider Kaiser a good place to work with improvements needed."

What do you like about working at Kaiser Permanente?

"Kaiser has been on the forefront for many innovating ideas to do business and has embraced diversity in the workforce."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Always go back to your own personal work ethics and remember to keep an open mind; we can always learn, especially in an interview situation."

What don't you like about working at Kaiser Permanente?

"Kaiser has become such a large organization that I feel it has often times lost the ability to be flexible in various areas of business."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Get back to basics. Learn to take advantage of the team concept that has worked so well in so many ventures of business."

"It was a great start up job!"

What do you like about working at Kaiser Permanente?

"Everything."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Once you get the opportunity, you'll never want to leave."

What do you like about working at Kaiser Permanente?

"Opportunity for growth."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Have knowledge about the healthcare industry."

"Horrible."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"If you need the money to pay the bills and get health insurance and you are desperate, then work at KP. But if you have options, run as far away from this organization as you possibly can. KP is all about relationships and politics and who you know and how well you brown-nose with the higher-ups. It's not about how skilled or how good you are at what you do."

What don't you like about working at Kaiser Permanente?

"Considering Kaiser Permanente is in the healthcare industry, I find it odd that of all my employers, I have never felt my healthcare privacy was violated and invaded until I worked at Kaiser. In addition, my safety as an employee when I filed a complaint against a senior manager who intimidated and harassed me and had me followed by one of his staff - was never addressed and fell on deaf ears because the offender is a senior manager. Another time I had an employee spit right in front of me and barely missed me and another manager just ignored the report I brought to her attention."

"Good environment and fellow workers and managers."

What do you like about working at Kaiser Permanente?

"Access to health care."

"Variety of assignments, but politics are brutal."

What do you like about working at Kaiser Permanente?

"Variety of assignments."

What don't you like about working at Kaiser Permanente?

"Politics are brutal."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Mentor underlings on political strategy and stakeholder management."

"Stressful at best."

What do you like about working at Kaiser Permanente?

"Nothing. I was outsourced."

What don't you like about working at Kaiser Permanente?

"Outsourced."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Don't micromanage."

"This is the worst company in the world to work for."

What do you like about working at Kaiser Permanente?

"Absolutely nothing."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Schedule the interview but don't show."

What don't you like about working at Kaiser Permanente?

"Everything."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Fire yourselves and get real managers in there."

"Kaiser Permanente was a wonderful company salary and benefits but they outsource."

What do you like about working at Kaiser Permanente?

"Benefits."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"It's a great place until they don't need you anymore."

What don't you like about working at Kaiser Permanente?

"Too big of a company to notice what you accomplish."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Stop outsourcing."

"KP, while sporting great benefits, is a heavily political environment with little opportunity for advancement."

"Excellent working environment."

What do you like about working at Kaiser Permanente?

"Well run organization with ample resources focused on providing superior healthcare."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Experience counts more than education or certification - many of the senior managers are not masters prepared, making it difficult for those that do."

What don't you like about working at Kaiser Permanente?

"Very large bureaucracy."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Don't defer responsibilities."

"It's a good place to work."