Kaiser Permanente reviews

As in other large companies I have worked for some people stay after they have burned out and become bitter. They contribute little to nothing and skate by on the coattails of others. That's a drag when it's your coattails they are skating on and you don't want to be seen as turning someone in. Management doesn't communicate enough. In doing one's job necessary information can be closely held by those leading the project and not shared, as if it were confidential when it is not, slowing down one's progress. Executives have free reign to spend extravagantly on meals and travel (well of course! they should be treated like special people) and scrutinized and even refused at the lower levels. That just seems wrong to me.

Kaiser treats their employees miserably. They have little sense of a proper work-life balance (their "Thrive" commercials are just a bunch of feel-good propaganda, if one judges by how they treat their paid staff). Also, if you are a performer and not a slacker, working at Kaiser can be kind of demoralizing when you see that the slackers never get reprimanded for their lack of ability or participation in the total work effort, and they get the same annual review rating and salary bump that you, the always achieving super performer, get.