CalOptima reviews

3.3

47% would recommend to a friend

(40 total reviews)

Richard Sanchez

65% approve of CEO

46% positive business outlook

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1.0
May 23, 2018

Please Make Change!

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Pros

Mission, great hardworking co-workers, opportunity to help our wonderful clients

Cons

I am a leaders at CalOptima and I don't feel I can speak up in the organization. It's too bad the senior team doesn't have effective enough relationships with their leaders so disappointments and frustrations can be shared. Instead people resort to social media. Something needs to be done about the culture at CalOptima! We hope the Board will find out how bad it is and finally do something. They appear to believe the finely crafted messages the CEO and top attorney provide them. If they only knew the people hours that go into preparing communications for the Board so they don't know the truth. It causes enormous stress and completely unrealistic expectations by the legal team as Board document after document is revised and not even discussed openly with leaders that have to have their name on it. The COO and her attorney have a punitive approach to our employees. Throwing policies at people all day doesn't work! So sad since I have worked here for many years and it used to be a great place to work. Please, it is 2018 and other organizations "get it" and know you need to care about your employees. Please do something with the senior team!

1.0
Mar 27, 2018

Worst Company to Work For!

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Pros

The CalOptima Emploees are the best ever! Great benefits.

Cons

The Leaders of this company are running this company into the ground. The Board of Directirs need to wake up and take control of this organization before it’s too late. The CEO has no involvement in running this company. The only thing he cares about is keeping the board happy by manipulating facts and hiding the horrible things that are going on here. Legal calls all of the shots and controls the CEO and COO’s every move! The Legal Team is supposed to be a neutral, unbiased resource that makes decisions based on facts when they are in fact the most biased people in the company. The COO has no idea what she is doing and needs the Legal Team to make all of her decisions for her. Employees and terminated employees have filed harassment, retaliation, bullying, hostile work environment complaints against the COO and the Legal Team and the complaints are never investigated. The Legal Team/Leaders say they are looking into the complaints, but does nothing with the them. They make decisions on those complaints without investigating or considering the facts. The Human Resources Depatment has the worst turnover in the company because of the COO and Legal. Everyone in the company blames Human Resources for how screwed up everything is. When the truth is CalIptima has had some amazing HR people over the years. They are asked to do unethical things, they are instructed to carry out decisions that are not legal or compliant with labor laws. If they do not allow themselves to be puppets and they actually stand up for themselves, they either quit or are fired and paid to keep quiet. The Executive Team has no respect for many of the C Levels. There is no consistency with how the business is run and money is thrown around loosely to give large bonuses and increase to the higher ups and people who don’t deserve it. Decisions to promote or give increases are made based on popularity and not based on production and quality of work. The lower level employees are undervalued and treated as if they don’t matter. This place has the worst reputation for how they treat employees. Countless public dollars are wasted each day. Employees are encouraged to report fraud waste and abuse, but if you do you will be retaliated against and fired! The COO recently used her power to bully several employees into signing an agreement to pay back money they should not have owed. The list goes on and on!

3.0
Oct 19, 2017

Bleh

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Pros

I work for the CalOptima PACE program. It's an amazing program and fun place to work. Management on the other hand?

Cons

Silos, Morale is very low due to management nit picking at dress code.

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