Kaiser Permanente Employee Job Reviews in the United States

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

"Management, being understaffed and overworked, high turnover rate, limited vacation time availability (priority times given to senior nurses)."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Value the nurses as they are the backbone of the hospital. Try to better accommodate regular scheduled days and time off."

What do you like about working at Kaiser Permanente?

"Given a change to expand skills in related but new areas, Actualization and Citrix. Has good process and procedures you could rely on."

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

"Found the the management did not know what was going on above them, which left us have a false scene of job security."

"The direct supervisors can be harsh, but when they are good, the policies are wonderful."

What do you like about working at Kaiser Permanente?

"I liked the non-profit status, this does make it so the company invests in helping patients rather than making the share holders happy. They do try to walk their talk."

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

"The lower level managers seem to want absolute control. The ones that are good are quickly promoted but the bad ones stay and float around to cause unhappiness."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Less micro-managing. Believe it or not, you do not know how to do the jobs better than your employees, let them have more autonomy."

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

"Too many senior level manager re-orgs. Culture of negative labeling staff as poor individual contributors."

"Common knowledge about Kaiser."

What do you like about working at Kaiser Permanente?

"The people are great to work with and the work is stimulating."

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

"Stay positive and relate your experience to their staffing need."

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

"It can be very process driven."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Streamline where possible."

What do you like about working at Kaiser Permanente?

"Job security and benefits."

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

"Be patient."

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

"At times understaffed, although this could be seasonal, as economy has changed."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"More interaction with staff."

"Kaiser Permanente - Adequate, not competitive salaries."

What do you like about working at Kaiser Permanente?

"People."

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

"Working conditions."

"Kaiser is a good place to work."

What do you like about working at Kaiser Permanente?

"Team work and resources available."

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

"Be persistent."

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

"Lack of security."

What do you like about working at Kaiser Permanente?

"Great experience, great training program."

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

"Politics."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Support the team."

What do you like about working at Kaiser Permanente?

"Everything."

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

"That it relocated to Novato."

What do you like about working at Kaiser Permanente?

"Everything."

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

"Be prepared and have a solid resume and a connection to the company, even if just as a patient."

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

"Nothing."

What do you like about working at Kaiser Permanente?

"I loved the experience working the Emergency Room. Learning and working closely with the doctors."

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

"All the employees were very supportive while I was in school obtaining my nurse degree."

What do you like about working at Kaiser Permanente?

"I liked my position."

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

"The hospital was sometimes a challange to arrange meeting at."

"Kaiser outsourced their IT dept but I loved working there the past 8 years."

What do you like about working at Kaiser Permanente?

"Working there was challenging and felt like home, the people felt like my family."

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

"Their decision to outsource IT to overseas."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Not to renew the outsource contract."

"Good benefits."

What do you like about working at Kaiser Permanente?

"I like working with my team. They were a bunch of good guys."

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

"Be who you are."

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

"The way they terminated a collegue."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Don't fire someone and their first notice is their badge not working."