Great Company - Senior Software Engineer Health Catalyst Employee Review

5.0
Jan 24, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Transparency, Management, Employee Care

Cons

Benefits, commute, surrounding areas maybe

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Health Catalyst Response
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Thank you for sharing these thoughts, and thank you for being with us for more than five years! You've played a role through a massive period of growth and change at the company, and your role as a Senior Software Engineer is critical to our company's ability to accomplish its mission. Thank you for sticking with us even as we've stumbled occasionally along the way. If you have some specific elements of feedback related to the benefits, and perhaps how we could improve, I'd welcome the chance to better understand this by visiting directly with you, or you could also share your feedback with Linda Llewelyn, our Chief People Officer. Also, if you have further thoughts you'd like to share about the commute and office location, you could share those thoughts with me or with Patrick Nelli, our Chief Financial Officer. Over the next year or so we'll be considering office location options moving forward, and we'll certainly solicit team member input as part of that process. Thank you again for your more than five years of work at Health Catalyst. Best, Dan

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