Kaiser Permanente offers a challenging environment in an industry that is
rapidly changing so at Kaiser Permanente I can't think of
a better organization by the way to work for we've been here for over 75 years
therefore we have a lot of longtime employees who have built their careers
here and we're continue to bring in new people who want to be a part of this
Kaiser Permanente family and the culture that we have we've been in the top five
companies but over the last 10 years by diversity Inc we're also focusing on
bringing in early career professionals so we bring in interns and this is a
great place to get experience if you're at college coming in as an intern with
us and it's a place that offers such variety you can literally stay here for
a long time and work in different disciplines over time in this
organization what makes CarGurus a great place to work is not just limited to the
perks that we have we have highly competitive perks that range everywhere
from 401k matching daily catered lunches commuter benefits it extends beyond the
quality of the people that work here but what really truly makes working here
at CarGurus unique and special is the structure in which everybody partakes in
the in the creation of a product everybody is owner of the products as we
define them and release them out to to the market there is a huge amount of
opportunity for growth you're going to be working with many different peoples
across many different facets of a product lifecycle at at every stage and
again in this process every engineer and every person is working in this product
is highly engaged what makes Kronos a great place to work
in IT beyond those things so the culture of caring we talked about and I think
that's infectious we take that from our leader Aaron Ain and that just permeates
through the company and certainly through IT but I think beyond that we
have a structure called IT as a service and we've defined all the services IT
performs for the company for a business for our customers within each of those
services people are dedicated to those services and you think that a lot of
companies talk about this but we really hold our leaders accountable every
single employee rates their manager twice a year and that's up to including
our CEO so our CEOs direct reports they rate him twice a year on these things we
ask all of our managers to share that data back with their team so again in
the spirit of transparency and we hold each of our managers accountable for
getting better and working on their development Kaiser Permanente's
headquarters is here in the bay area and this is home to Silicon Valley so it's a
constant war for talent in this market but with the rapid changes in technology
there's an increasing shortage of people who have the requisite skills so one of
the things that we focus on is training our own workforce on these new skills
because we have a very dedicated workforce and we want to make sure that
we're training them on the new technologies so that we can be relevant
you know and providing the skills and the technologies that Kaiser Permanente
needs we have a broad range of positions for which each one requires different
skills to be effective at their job ultimately what we're looking for is can
you actually do the job based on your current role but are you collaborative
are you are you working on a problem that makes sense and can you push back
when it makes sense but what really truly makes working here our Karger is
unique and special is the structure in which everybody partakes in the in the
creation of a product everybody is owner of the products as we define them and
release them how to to the market there is a huge amount of opportunity for
growth you're going to be working with many different peoples across many
different facets of a product lifecycle and at every stage and again in this
process every engineer and every person that's working this product is highly
gauged the secret sauce for us is really the hooks that are going to align well
and fit well with our culture and that means that they can build relationships
that means that they can collaborate well especially across other teams and
that they show a certain amount of humility really recognizing that no
single job that we have here at Chronos can be done in a back room or inside a
cubicle or inside an office in IT at Chronos we look for people that have a
variety of skills and as Kim said the technical skills our table sticks nice
way to put it but beyond that we look for people that are hungry humble and
smart so hungry in terms of they're aggressive they want to learn more they
want to be more they want to move ahead we have lots of opportunity at Chronos
it's easier for people to find that opportunity here because tech
collaboration and teamwork are so important we have a number of programs
that I've support people in being able to build their collaboration and
teamwork skills we have one program called KP cares it's a website where
volunteers can actually volunteer to participate in the community and we
there are community projects that we support and we allow our workforce to
volunteer and go work together in these nonprofit organizations in our
communities now this is an excellent opportunity for people who normally
don't work together to get to know each other in build relationships and also
provide an impact in the community people will talk about Cronos feeling
like a family and it is because we have that trust so how do we make sure that
we hardwire that it's really about setting those expectations right from
the beginning right when we're recruiting new hires and we're looking
for people we look for folks that have demonstrated that they can build solid
relationships that they can collaborate and that's really what makes our culture
great it's the people our relationship with not only with NIT or relationships
with NIT are important but our relationships with the business are even
more on board at CarGurus all your promote
collaboration and teamwork is really baked into the day-to-day processes by
which we develop new products we'd not have a structure by which you have one
team that is responsible for creating all the requirements and the product
definition then hands it off to another team for execution what we have here is
is a much more collaborative environment as an as a start-up many years ago
everything we do is predicated on on a high level of collaboration between
different teams
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