In the tech side of the organization, It's a lot like being around family... both pros and cons. - Software QA Engineer Health Catalyst Employee Review

5.0
10 Aug 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Everyone is friendly, smart, and hard working. Sometimes people can be transparent to what in other companies might normally be considered a fault. I haven't met anyone yet who I've questioned "Why was this person hired?". Smart, hard work is appreciated over "doing the hours", and providing something concrete and useful is appreciated over providing your weekly TPS reports. Speaking of which, if something is useless, it gets cut very quickly. I've never seen an organization that self evaluates and trims things as effectively as my current team.

Cons

Just like being in a family, sometimes mom and dad can't agree on what the family should be doing. This isn't usually a huge problem, but it frequently means the 'kids' are overridden when it comes to prioritizing 'fixing annoying bugs' over 'Providing more, new content'

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Health Catalyst Response
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Thanks for sharing this feedback, and your 'family' analogy resonates. I agree also with your assessment that foundational stability, in our data platform and in our apps, is table stakes before we'll be in a position to offer up more to our clients. I was visiting with Dale (our Technology President) yesterday, and he shared that the stability scalability of our data platform is on his short-list of organization priorities for the next year, and I completely agree. Thanks also for your continued contributions from Columbus! We have been so fortunate to continue to benefit from our talented colleagues who joined us through the HCD acquisition.

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