Kaiser Permanente reviews

Because they like to promote from within, they sometimes put highly unqualified people in positions thinking that this will result in something good happening. The result is usually disastrous. They sometimes promote people to high positions without making them learn everything about the positions the new managers will oversee. This results in the managers asking for and demanding statistics which in the reality of the job, mean absolutely nothing. You have to keep quiet otherwise you could be talking to the person who will go to HR and report you. Even those that do their job well, their heads roll from time to time for some bizarre reason. It's a very unpredictable place with reorganizations taking place in departments for the entire time I was there, and I was there for four years. Not a good place for minorities even though the company boasts a lot about diversity. They still have a long way to go to stop making this diversity just window dressing.

Can be a very high stress work environment. It's very difficult to shine in a culture that is primarily not meritocratic. But if you are a high producer eventually (if you have the patience and can deal with the politics) you'll be rewarded. Highly Political Environment. Easy to get branded.