Kaiser Permanente reviews

Driving change at KP is like trying to ride a bike through molasses. It takes an extraordinary amount of effort to change the way things are done and adopt modern innovations, partly because within health care, half baked processes can cause people great harm. However, KP's culture extends this conservatism and "analysis paralysis" into all of its business practices, not just clinical ones. To work here and make a difference, you have to be very patient, and figure out which execs have the organizational power to move your ideas forward, and then work through them. Some employees have been defeated by the inability to make progress, and there is somewhat of a free-rider problem in which a few employees take on most of the work while others do the minimum.

Overworked; understaffed; punitive (and lack of direction) from management. Management favors discipline over education. Toxic morale and environment. Literally no one wants to come to work, and when they do, they are filled with dread.