Senior Software Engineer - Senior Software Engineer Ascension Employee Review

1.0
13 Sept 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

If you're a mediocre or below average software engineer or developer, and you just need a place to hide out and get an easy paycheck, then Ascension Health Information Services is the perfect home for you.

Cons

Incompetent leadership, at multiple layers, is suffering from severe cognitive dissonance and extreme arrogance. Their implementation of SiteCore via a third party vendor is pathetic, and worse yet, undocumented. This is a classic case failure of leadership. Also, if you're going through the interview process here, please be very careful, do NOT believe in any of the technologies that are advertised by the recruiter and the job ad. During my recruitment process, I was told verbally as well as in writing that they were using or wanted to use: Docker, Kubernetes, NodeJS, Angular, ES6+, VueJS, TypeScript, React/Redux, .Net Core, etc. When I showed up for work, it was the complete opposite, they weren't interested in any of the technologies that I listed, (which THEY had advertised). They don't even have a Confluence page setup for onboarding, but yet they bought Jira from Atlassian. They're using Jira with Microsoft Team Foundation Server. On my 3rd day on the job, I had to show their developers how to do a code review and give feedback on the code file diffs, these are very fundamental skills. Their Agile process is a joke, scrum takes almost half an hour to complete for only about 6-7 developers reporting. I can go on and on, but I think you get the gist.

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Pros

Health Benefits PTO Work Life Balance

Cons

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Pros

The patient population can be very rewarding to work with, and there can be lots of different job opportunities but very limited advancement with mainly lateral department shifts if a person is looking for change.

Cons

Raises are almost non-existent. The "raise" is a yearly COLA of between 2%-3%. There is no ability to talk to anyone regarding a raise, even the admin staff are fully stonewalled in the overlly corporate monolithic HR style of maintaining "fair" wages. I have worked here for several years and I actually earn less now because my "raises" do not keep up with inflation and the actual cost of living. They maintain their functionality on squeezing as much as they can out of one employer by slowly shifting more job responsibilities called "opportunities" onto you without extra pay or change in title that would get a pay increase. They look to higher level licensed staff to provide more coverage for roles that they won't hire for or cut in departments. They do "organizational restructuring" every 6 months because more staff quit, they don't replace the staff, and tell others to absorb the former FT employees job responsibilities without pay increase and being told not to go into OT.

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