No Place Better for Meaningful and Rewarding Work! - Technical Director Health Catalyst Employee Review

5.0
Sep 12, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Health Catalyst is my sixth Health IT experience and it's, bar none, the best. Some of my previous experiences have been rewarding but not compensated well. Others have been well compensated but with companies that were overly profit driven. Still others were with actual healthcare providers that just didn't know what to do and wasted time and resources with indecision. Health Catalyst is all about driving a mission of improving healthcare, making a great firm by keeping staff happy, and delivering great products that disrupt what we expect in healthcare. There are certainly other places you could make more money at, but what they lack in financial compensation they more than make up for in staff perks. Unlimited vacation, paid maternity/paternity leave, great benefits, the list goes on and on.

Cons

The company moves too slowly. They operate by consensus which is often times difficult to come by - especially with customers of varying sophistication and product mix.

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Health Catalyst Response
9y
Thank you for the very nice write up! I agree that the pace of change can feel slow some times. I think this is a combination of our increasing size and the fact that we value consensus as a leadership team. That does;t come without potential downsides, and this may be what you are feeling at times. We are always open to figuring out how we improve and move more quickly. Thanks for your thoughts and willingness to contribute!

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