Was a fantastic workplace but concerning issues manifesting this year - Software Engineer Health Catalyst Employee Review

3.0
Aug 18, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Used to be a 5-star rating company - so the potential is there - CEO genuinely cares about employees - Wonderful coworkers (see cons) - Admirable company purpose and goals - Work from home available - Accessible and pleasant new office space - Low stock price (would have been a great time to buy)

Cons

- Transparency and communication have deteriorated recently - Disfunction between business units - Coworkers actively looking to leave the company. - Low morale due to lack of clear deliverables, radical shifts in products/direction, client churn

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Health Catalyst Response
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Thank you for your review and your feedback. I read and reread your review, and we have been working to strengthen and reinforce principles of transparency, love and respect for every team member over the past six months, even as we are required to make some important changes in order to continue to earn the right to be an independent, mission-focused company moving forward. I'm grateful to see much progress made, and a reacceleration beginning in our growth and in our profitability progress as well. We have also striven to follow the Health Catalyst Way even as we've needed to streamline our cost structure, but use many levers before layoffs in order to achieve that cost structure. I'm grateful for the team member positions that have been preserved as a result of this strategy, even though it took more time than a more layoff-heavy approach would have taken. I'm also feeling meaningfully optimistic about our future as a company, and am excited for a strong 2023. I hope that these positive changes and signals will be persuasive enough for you to choose to stay with Health Catalyst, and I recognize that it is our responsibility as leaders to provide a compelling place for team members to want to work and to want to stay. I appreciate your more than six years of contributions to Health Catalyst! Best, Dan

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Cons

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Great Talent & Culture: The people here are highly capable, collaborative, and committed to helping each other succeed. The partnership between onshore and offshore teams works well and is a real strength. There’s a culture of grit and stability that has helped the company navigate multiple major transitions over the years. Mission-Critical Engineering: The work involves complex data infrastructure that requires deep technical expertise. It can be demanding, but seeing these systems run successfully and support real-world operations is consistently rewarding.

Cons

Wage Compression and Retention Risk: Compensation for tenured and high-performing staff has not kept pace with the market for specialized data engineering and support leadership. In practice, tenure can feel undervalued or even penalized. This creates risk around losing institutional knowledge and operational continuity. Stagnant Career Progression: Contrary to stated expectations, strong performance ratings do not consistently translate into meaningful, market-aligned compensation growth. The process of how compensation is benchmarked lacks clarity in practice, obscuring how compensation decisions are made and what is required to advance.

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