MEDecision Reviews

Former Employee – worked at MEDecision full-time

Pros – - Work/life balance - There are some stressful times, but they are predictable
- People - Very talented, helpful, and collaborative
- Casual environment
- Ability to have a say and feel empowered.

Cons – - Too much negativity in remaining employees
- Separation between the worker bees and the executive leadership team. Feels like two separate worlds
- Slow response to adopt new technologies or adapt
- Resistance to change because of fear of risk

Advice to Senior Management – Undoubtedly, MEDecision has had a bumpy road over the recent years. But holding onto the past, pointing fingers, and hoping for the good ol' days is not going to help the company progress. There is much more opportunity at MEDecision for employees to influence change than at bigger corporations where everyone is truly a number and pigeon-holed. Encourage everyone to collaborate and "breakthrough" the walls that separate everyone.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at MEDecision full-time

Pros – Good people and a sense of collegiality in product development teams.
Flexible work schedule.
Casual attire.
Clean and safe facility.

Cons – The future is ever uncertain.
Despite proclaiming candor as a value, Senior Mgmt shows a feigned, pep-rally camaraderie with the workforce, which is dispiriting and destructive over time.

Advice to Senior Management – Be genuine.
Reward innovation instead of dismissing it.
Listen to the teams and give them the time and resources to develop solutions that will make the products more robust, maintainable, and scalable.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at MEDecision full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Flexibility
People (mostly those that used to work here)
Free Water

Cons – Ridiculous senior leadership
Poor job stability
Bad code base
Little/no attention to technical debt
Poor developer hardware
No investment into development, new technologies, software licensing/support

Advice to Senior Management – Start off by firing Deb. She's driven this company straight into the ground, and it's only getting worse. Then, remember that you are a SOFTWARE company. You don't make/improve software without R&D. It's time to invest in it, or this company is going under.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at MEDecision full-time for more than a year

Pros – Good group of people. Good work/life balance.

Cons – Leaders do not know what they are doing. Good managers are gone. Most of the current managers need LOTS of training.
The CEO brought most of her friends as VP's.
Nothing to learn, it is a 9 to 5 kind of job.

Advice to Senior Management – Stop lying to customers and employees.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at MEDecision full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Decent pay. Good teams to wrk with.

Cons – Work day never ended. "On call" most of the time. Management just didn't care about it's employees.

Advice to Senior Management – Reward at least according to industry standard. Make sure front line employees know that you are there and will support them.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at MEDecision full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Great work life balance and flexibility

Cons – Unclear direction of the company

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at MEDecision full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – - Talented co-workers
- Salary
- Flexible work schedule

Cons – - Two layoffs totaling over 100 people in a 12-month period.
- Continual addition of VP-level personnel, while the remaining workforce is decimated
- No accountability among the upper management
- Healthcare benefits were below average at best
- Disconnect between management and workers

Advice to Senior Management – - Hold yourselves accountable for the company's shortcomings.
- Now that the re-branding has been completed, how about focusing on actually building the brand?
- Implement upward feedback so that management can get a sense of their strengths and weaknesses.
- How about career development plans for the employees?
- Don't have a holiday party three days after informing 1/3 of your workforce they are being laid off. That was completely classless.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at MEDecision full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – - flexible schedule
- competitive salary
- people doing the work are incredibly talented, experienced and cooperative
- was employed there for almost 10 years and considered most of the folks I worked with as friends first, coworkers second
- can count on one hand the worker-bee-level people that I had to deal with that were a pain or difficult to get along with

Cons – - almost all those talented and experienced people are gone now
- layoffs the past two years (mini-purge in 11/2011; massive purge (1/3 of company) in 12/2012-02/2013) have decimated the company
- folks left behind are stuck on a rudderless ship; and even if the current management could steer, have no confidence that they know what direction to go
- as others have indicated, there remains a huge disconnect between management and staff, and there appears to be no desire at all to acknowledge this gap, much less to determine a way to bridge it and create a solid company again

Advice to Senior Management – this is a fairly pointless exercise, since the current management has no desire to listen to advice from anyone - and certainly not from a former employee.
however, I will provide this observation --- stop calling the staff a "low performing organization" when they have accomplished all the objectves set forth by management (hitting release dates with all desired functionality and at targeted quality levels). it is not the fault of the R&D, Operations and Support areas that the company is not making sales and bleeding clients.
perhaps an honest evaluation of the sales and marketing objectives - and the overall business plan (what number are we up to? i think there have been four "new directions" since Deb Gage took over) - is in order.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at MEDecision as a contractor

Pros – Still learning the environment and meeting people.

Cons – Unsure what to say at this time.

Advice to Senior Management – working on it

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at MEDecision full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – The company's buildings provide adequate shelter from bad weather and are climate-controlled

Cons – Layoffs becoming a huge part of the culture, enormous disconnect between senior management and the 'worker bees', morale plummeting

Advice to Senior Management – Discontinuing the practice of demoralizing people would be a good idea. Implementing performance reviews where a large segment of the company is ranked as "substandard" simply because it meets some sort of arbitrary metric accomplishes nothing other than to make people want to leave. The recent mass layoff ended up taking care of that on its own. Outside of anyone at the VP level, no one has been given any incentive to remain at the company and there have been quite a few departures even among those who weren't laid off. All the while, the messages from the top are of the "moving in a new direction" nature. Easy to chuckle at that after more than 125 layoffs in the last two years from a company that only numbered about 300 before that.

MEDecision had a solid reputation for over 20 years as a fun place to work with a lot of terrific people. The last two years have basically eradicated that completely and now people are all but dying to leave.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company