Cerner Employee Reviews about "no work life"

Cons

-little direction: like another reviewer posted, Cerner is an IT company so EVERYTHING is online. It is almost impossible to find anything. You literally have a learning curve to their 'uCern' and wiki pages. Their search algorithm seems like it was written 100 BC. Sharepoint is terrible. There really isn't a structure to any type of training (there is a very basic outline, but absolutely nothing in depth). - your knowledge base is determined by the number of clients/type of clients you have -promotions are based on how long you have been there and have almost nothing to do with your ability. They also have to do with what team you are on....so someone who started at the same time as you who knows absolutely nothing could get a 20k pay raise while your still making nothing -pay is awful compared to the industry standard. They just lowered the standard pay as of this year as well because it was 'above the industry standard' which is bogus -The work life balance is completely determined by the team your on and the position you are in. In terms of consulting, there is currently (as of may 2015) an entire corporate restructuring in the consulting field...no one in consulting agree's with this and it's going to be an epic fail. I'm not entirely positive on all of the details, but basically you are going to have build monkeys (delivery consultants) and then the 'architects' that travel to the client sites. This is also going to be determinant based on how much an associate wants to travel. -You aren't fully vested until 5 years -You get so sick and tired of meeting other Cerner employees at the bars

Cons

- Aside from learning the Cerner ticketing system and Cerner in-company resources, 2 week TSA training felt useless as we hardly learned how to prioritize the types of issues and manner of software we will use once we're put on a team - Work culture you experience will highly depend on the department you're chosen for, so you will never know what your day-to-day will be like until it is too late - Some teams are severely understaffed compared to others, putting advanced workload on your table with no one able to make time to assist/guide you - Corporate hierarchy is extremely apparent; work/life balance for technical solutions employees is unpredictable and only gets worse the higher up you go - You will encounter some clients with grudges and gripes held from the previous employee who they worked with - The opposite applies as well; some clients will hold you to a standard regardless of the length of time you've worked with them or Cerner, expecting you to have an answer for anything and everything as an associate employee