Apparently only managers need to improve - Analytics Engineer Health Catalyst Employee Review

3.0
Mar 3, 2021
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Pros

Good pay, good benefits, good coworkers

Cons

At Health Catalyst, only the people managers get annual performance reviews. If you are an individual contributor you don't get any kind of formal review. This is totally ironic. We're an outcomes improvement company and we consult with our clients about how they are supposed to continually monitor their performance and implement interventions to improve. But we don't follow our own advice. How are our people supposed to learn and grow and get better if they don't set goals and check in regularly with their managers on those goals?

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Health Catalyst Response
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Thanks for your review and feedback. We encourage people managers to have 1:1s with team members every two weeks, and to have a continuous discussion about the team member's performance and what is going well as well as opportunities for development and improvement. We have also found it useful to gather annual 360-degree performance feedback on our people managers, and as we've found this to be helpful, we are extending this practice of annual performance feedback, in a more formalized manner, to all team members, starting in 2021. We hope that this addition will address your feedback and be helpful to you and to many other team members in their ongoing growth and development. Best, Dan

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