Premera Blue Cross reviews

3.0

37% would recommend to a friend

(1,005 total reviews)
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Jeff Roe

42% approve of CEO

31% positive business outlook

Premera Blue Cross has an employee rating of 3.0 out of 5 stars, based on 1,005 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Premera Blue Cross employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Insurance industry (3.6 stars).

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1.0
Jun 17, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Easy commute and cafeteria is OK which is good since there is nothing within walking distance.

Cons

Heavy middle-management team that is ineffective. Lots of talk but no walk. Decisions are bottle-necked at middle mgmt level. Teams and individuals have no decision making ability so morale is low and apathy is high.

3.0
May 30, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Overall Company vision/goals is good (minus a few alarming news stories recently with the reform) - Mostly positive atmosphere and culture - Stable - Typically a lot of position openings to get into or move to - A lot of cool and fun coworkers - Good benefits - Good pay once you earn it, has consistent raises in salary

Cons

These are in regards to their standard Operations department, as that is what I have the most experience with: - Middle Management really drags everything down within it's main core business operations - For being a "LEAN" company, there are so many shortcomings in working between departments, complete disconnect between teams that should have a stronger communication line and workflow. Spent years attempting to help fix these issues and nothing came of it. Leads to a lot of issues and headaches. - A lot of cliques, favoritism, and other general issues between team leads and management or regular representatives. Enough to where it's created many issues over the years. - This leads to undeserving or unqualified or just bad people getting team lead, or other advanced positions - This has led to a weak middle management based off of that, which is the ultimate downfall. Makes it frustrating to be a normal joe and having to be strategic in how you approach these people or handle your business to move/grow within the company. - Clear overall vision but completely unclear visions at lower levels. A lot of rash decisions without proper planning causing the rug to be pulled out from under you and the teams, creating havoc, work issues, etc, and then only to be undone a few weeks later because it was the wrong move. Once again a product of bad middle management.

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