Great Place to Work - Anonymous employee Health Catalyst Employee Review

5.0
Sep 20, 2021
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Team members are open, thoughtful, and enthusiastic. Senior Management listens to everyone. Best CEO I have ever worked with. Health Catalyst knows how to help team members feel connected when working virtually. The company's Operating Principles of client-centered Outcomes, team member Ownership, common sense Pragmatic Innovation, and client/employee/management information Transparency are the best I've seen. The technical and strategic personnel make up an outstanding place to work and thrive. Meetings used to tend too run over; this is diminishing as we work to maintain a policy of ending meetings at 5 minutes before the nominal times; for example, 2:00pm to 2:55pm instead of 3pm

Cons

Work can at times be slowed down in the search of consensus and inclusion of a broad group of team members involved in projects. However, leadership strives to keep people on track. Projects are completed well and on time more often than not.

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Health Catalyst Response
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Thank you for your review and feedback and for your 3+ years of contributions to the company! Thank you also for your kind and generous words towards me. I am grateful to hear of your positive experiences with the culture, with your teammates, the the virtual experience, and for the connection to the Health Catalyst Way. I agree with your assessment that our consensus-oriented approach can sometimes take longer, but am glad to hear that in your experience we're managing this downside fairly effectively. We'll keep striving to be respectful and transparent in what we share with our teammates and fellow owners moving forward, including in tomorrow's all team member meeting. Best, Dan

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