Amazing company with a great mission - Analytics Engineer Health Catalyst Employee Review

5.0
Apr 26, 2019
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Pros

Health Catalyst has a great leadership team that is transparent and employee focused. Company has great benefits: generous 401K match, great health insurance coverage, generous education reimbursement policy, etc. Coworkers all seem to embody the company cultural attributes. This is the first place I have worked where being humble is a sought out attribute. Everyone I work with is humble, smart, and hardworking. Plenty of opportunity to expand your skillset and grow with the company. Each client has different needs and its been great getting to work on several projects where I am able to learn new things! Great flexibility of working hours as long as team members are contributing appropriately. We are encouraged to have a meaningful work life balance and I appreciate the ability to work off hours if needed to attend things like children's school events.

Cons

Initial training/onboarding could use some polishing. I believe this is being worked on and am confident that newly hired Analytic Engineers will have a more robust training plan. Remote work can feel lonely at times

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Health Catalyst Response
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Thank you for sharing this review, and for your encouraging words. I also appreciate your observations and suggestions. We are working to make the onboarding process as strong and robust and effective as possible. And we know we can always improve. Also, we just discussed the education and training plan as part of our most recent board meeting last week, and we'll summarize those plans in today's all team member meeting. I was really excited and encouraged to see the robustness of those plans. Finally, regarding ways to build camaraderie between remote workers, and in general, this topic has been on my mind of late. We have a few ideas we're working to implement, one of which is to more pervasively utilize video in our meetings. We're doing this in leadership team meetings each week, and it does seem to improve the connectedness. Further, we're considering ways of "gathering" more often -- around "hub" locations, for activities and events. We have a significantly flexible, remote-friendly approach to our work, which we want to preserve, but we also sense the need to gather and feel more connected as well. One concept we're considering utilizing is more company-sponsored "lunches" for team members, on a more regular basis, across the company. We're still working on it. If you have additional ideas about what we can do here, please feel free to send them to me or to Linda, our Chief People Officer. Thank you again for choosing to join Health Catalyst, and for contributing in such a critical role as an Analytics Engineer. I appreciate the work you do, on the front lines, with our clients, to accomplish our mission. Your work matters a great deal, and I'm grateful to try to support your work each day. Best, Dan

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