Premera Blue Cross reviews

3.0

37% would recommend to a friend

(217 total reviews)
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Jeff Roe

42% approve of CEO

31% positive business outlook

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2.0
Dec 13, 2012

Culture of importance

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Good health insurance coverage; some nice perks, including gym discounts (though they should have their own gym on campus!); good work-life balance; nice reverse commute from Seattle; Casual dress code is nice to have, but it took a decade to get to it.

Cons

Horrible culture of "who's more important than who" there. Underlings are not allowed to mingle with or contact upper management directly. Senior Executives expect the lower-wage people to respect their decisions and keep their mouths closed if they disagree. Disgusting disparity of wages from the executives to the people who have to clock in and out each day. The conservative climate is also very discouraging. Strong anti-Obama, anti-health care reform sentiment in the leadership. The "tobacco-free" campus has only lead to streets littered with cigarette butts on both sides of the company. The majority of the associates are morbidly obese. Seems like we should practice what we preach if we want to promote a "culture of health."

2.0
Aug 27, 2012
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Pros

Premera has a nice physical workspace, cafeteria. There are some very good people there. Good integrity with regard to their products (despite what people think of insurance companies).

Cons

There is a culture of not sharing knowledge so that one can feel like they are "needed". Salaries are low, and as is typical with health insurance companies, they are slow to embrace technology. Remote working is discouraged, and a general sense of distrust with employees is felt. (I am not talking about employees at an entry level position.) The CEO and executive level salary discrepancy is outrageous and disheartening when bonus time rolls around and you see how wide the gap is between the haves and have nots.

1.0
Aug 24, 2012
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Pros

easy commute. There were some nice people who work there. Nobody works all that hard so the work life balance is good.

Cons

Fear based culture. Nobody follows processes so there is a lot of duplicate work going on. People are treated with little or no respect and the salary and benefits aren't very good. My experience of going through the interview process and actually working there was vastly different. I was told things about bonuses, benefits, advancement opportunities that didn't exist in reality (particularly for women over 40). The place was a huge disappointment.

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