Good starter company - Child and Adolescent Therapist InStride Health Employee Review

I had the greatest manager I've ever had in my life here. From day one, actually even before that during the interview process, I felt like this company cared about me as a person and not just as an employee. This carried on throughout my time with InStride.

Things changed quickly and there was a lot of miscommunication. No one ever blamed other people it was just hard to keep up with all the changes and updates. It is a start up after all.

There is a lot of independence to do your job on your own

First, the pay: atrocious. At all levels. Many directors and higher get bonuses, but none of the other employees do. At our retreat, I spoke with some folks on other teams, and they mentioned their salaries barely qualifying as minimum wage in some states with almost no opportunities for compensation raises. This seemed especially true on the patient/clinic side of things. Directors also never know what they are doing, they spend most of their time being negative and micromanaging other employees. In some tech meetings, directors have even talked down about their direct reports publicly. The company is also so focused on whether everything is HIPPA compliant that we can't even get products out the door. Example: We built a poorly functioning internal version of Slack rather than spending the extra money to purchase Slack Pro (which comes with HIPPA compliance). So now folks are left struggling across two different messaging services, making work fractured. Also, profitability seems to be questionable. A lot of folks getting quietly laid off, and almost no one received a positive review this year. Most of us who received negative reviews had negative remarks with no evidence provided. HR is also against the employees. Every time I raised an issue to HR, it was met with hostility and then immediately reported back to the person I was reporting.