HMSA Reviews

3.1

24% would recommend to a friend

(285 total reviews)
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Mark Mugiishi

32% approve of CEO

28% positive business outlook

HMSA has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 285 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The HMSA 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
24 Jul 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Working Mon-Fri, off on weekends

Cons

Micro-managing Over worked Lack of support No transparency-even though they say they are transparent Low pay, high expectations You’ll find yourself developing serious mental health issues because of the position. Specifically as a CR rep, you’re the bottom of the list with the hardest job bc essentially you pretty much have to do a bit of everyone’s job to get stuff done, to get answers and resolved-remember-CR is not only the “face” but also the punching bag, lab mice for experiments, and the slave of HMSA. Nothing is good enough, even when you give your best. “8min per call from 8a-415p and a max of 2 mins to breathe in between each call to meet your metrics” keep that in mind when thinking about applying-calls are non stop and back to back, members are mean and more irate than usual. Don’t believe all the “good things” you hear about HMSA. Alot has changed significantly from when I first started and now. What seemed like a dream initially- everyone very welcoming, so much support, employee appreciation, positive vibes and mostly happy employees, incentives, realistic work goals took a turn real quick when the new CEO Mark M took over. While he enjoys the perks of his position and the money we make for him, gives himself and his other corporate friends HUGE BONUSES, sits at his desk writing dumb friday emails bragging about all the traveling, partying, going to musicals and being invited to Super Bowl-amongst other extravagant trips and events he partakes in. The rest of us are overworked, overwhelmed, and barely holding on but we do it because WE care about our people of hawaii, We are the ones that do the actual work while he reaps the benefits. The pay isn’t worth it-up to 2% raise(that’s like .10 increase btw) after your employee review-if we’re even lucky to get it and the occasional mini Pepperidge farm cookie with a sticker that says we are “soooo appreciated for all our hard work” There have been soo much intelligent, supportive, hardworking individuals who helped make everything flow so well to be successful and they were laid off and replaced with first source, India based employees who 1. Don’t know what they’re doing, 2. Make our jobs harder bc they rely on us to do their jobs too, 3. No longer have the same type of communication or relationship as we did with the ones that were laid off so the flow is gone. But hey, “we should be lucky we still have our job and wasn’t affected” news flash-if you haven’t noticed by now, we are affected and the seasoned reps who poured soo much of their lives into this company are dropping like flies and getting out as fast as they can. I can only wonder what exactly will be done to improve company moral as apparently that’s a new goal, But I honestly dont see that happening anytime soon based on how bad things have gotten in the last 2 years. And no, it’s not because of covid-That excuse is overplayed and over used. Its the CEO and his other corporate buddies doing. That expensive meal you eat, nice car you drive, and trips you take should be a huge pay raise for the hard working employees of HMSA. . But you’re welcome I guess.

1.0
10 Mar 2016

Where Everyone is Treated Equal

Anonymous employee
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Pros

If you're the type of person who likes to coast by, collecting a paycheck, while doing as little work as possible this is the place for you.

Cons

While it may sound great that everyone is "treated equally" in reality what it means is that 10% of the company does 90% of the work because some are allowed to do absolutely nothing of value and still collect a pay check. Salaries are well below market rate. The only people who get close to market value are executives who are recruited more for "who they know" than for the value they bring to the company. "Raises" are no more than 3% without SENIOR EXECUTIVE APPROVAL! And 3% is for you scoring near maximum on your performance evaluation. Bonuses are like mythical creatures (thanks but no thanks to the meager holiday bonus, which is more insulting than it is rewarding). Everything is for show at the executive level. A lot of middle management truly does care about their employees but they have no power to reward you or empower you to do great things. Once you get to the AVP level or above the level of apathy skyrockets and everything is politics and making sure you say the right thing, rather than actually DOING the right thing. HMSA loves to tell you it has the best interest of members at heart and many employees come to HMSA because of that, taking less pay, based upon the promise that they can contribute to the future of Hawaii in a positive manner. At the end of the day though, the decision that come from executives are all lip service. The partners they choose and pump millions of member's dues into are cronies and nothing more. They ask internal workers to vet vendors and then pick whoever took them to the best dinner or had the nicest suit. HMSA leadership is nothing more than talk and has zero accountability because they're "too big to fail."

2.0
9 May 2022
Recommend
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This is a company without an identity, searching to be something its not and never will be. With only the very rare and occasional exception, HMSA attracts average, marginally productive staff with rather unremarkable previous experiences and skills. This is true at the very top SVP/CEO to the entry level Analyst/Examiner. We tried to be Agile and "Cool" like Twitter and Instagram in 2014 .... Insta-Fail... we're not that smart, and our culture is more top down, ask for permission, and slow like a sloth - think State Government. But that's ok, we could have been a great company despite that. The staff here used to always surprise/impress you with their hard work, dedication to the company, good cheer and willingness to work weekends for free. The job always got done, even though it was not sexy. We celebrated our wins together and consoled each other when we failed. We reflected, dusted ourselves off and got back to work again. Our Culture could have been the 1980 Olympic Hockey Team....The Underdogs that Won, the Bad News Bears, the guys who nobody wanted, but we showed them all. We could have embraced that. Recruited for that. Promoted and Compensated for that. I tried to explain this to a former executive who has long since left Hawaii. But no. We tried to be a Mainland NFL team , but with only 10th round draft picks on our roster. The first sign of trouble came when our stern struck the reef in July 2020 when the company decided to terminate employee pension effective 12/2024 and also reduced our vacation hours to 400 (from 600). This was the primary reason for accepting decades of lower than market rate salary at HMSA. Listing and now taking on water, most employees stayed on board to steady the ship. I guess we wanted to help. The second sign of trouble came when our main sail tore and the staff received no pay raise in 2020 and it was blamed on Covid, which NO ONE believed, but like a good CCP dictator, maintained the bold face lie to us anyway and thus, lost more respect from the rank-and-file. Jaded, and still a bit numb, most employees stayed around even after this. Heck, we average 2% pay raise for decades and virtually no promotions at HMSA to speak of anyway. We are very accustomed to this type of treatment. This sucks, but we can take it. What was the fatal blow however was to come 4 months later. A blow that not even the most jaded and dedicated HMSA employee could put up with. In October 2021. We ran around off the coast of India while the captain was drunk on cheap wine from Sri Lanka. We think during late night party with other SVP's celebrating the fat bonus they granted themselves for the work we did for them. The alarm sounded when huge gash along the port bow that made the Titanic Iceberg Crash look like nothing more than a cosmetic scratch. The decision was made that we are no longer a "Non Profit" Local Health Insurance Company. We are more like JP Morgan, or CitiBank - Full, For-Profit, And buddy, we take no prisoners'. We contracted with an Indian Outsource Company and HR started firing people. Good , hardworking people who had burned the midnight oil and did the work while taking the abuse and the lickings during the entire voyage. Who were the same folks who as recently as 2020 and 2021 saved the company a great deal of money by moving us off of legacy systems and getting us into better, more favorable, advanced IT configurations, lost their teammates and friends. Curiously, some of the best were inexplicably tossed overboard themselves. Keep in mind, none of the got more than a 2% annual pay raise their entire career here! As the ship is listing severely, and taking on water at an alarming rate - the crew are heading for the lifeboats. Good people. One and all. This secondary effect of mutiny and all hands abandoning ship as a result of watching your shipmates being tossed overboard like so much flotsam and jetsam is all seemingly unexpected and surprising to the 11th floor. Well, shipmates are jumping. Good folks have woken up and are leaving and getting jobs that appreciate them, with proper companies which correctly compensate valued employees, provide challenging and engaging work, and actual career possibilities and with managers who inspire, lead and bring out the best of them. To you shipmates, I wish you the very best and the brightest future one can have. If one day you see me from your magnificent vantage point later in life, I hope you'll remember the battles we fought and say "ahoy!".

Cons

Not a single reason remains to stay here.

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