Steady decline for past 3.5 years. - Engineer Health Catalyst Employee Review

2.0
29 Dec 2020
Recommend
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Pros

Its been an great place to coast and pursue my hobbies.

Cons

Holidays, benefits, and pay have been slashed and-or frozen. No foreseeable end date or reinstatement. Best talent has left or is in the process of leaving. Technology is a joke. For a company specializing in data warehousing our “etl” tools are irrelevant. Platform is more of a monolith that even internal teams can’t play well with it let alone any true third party.

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Health Catalyst Response
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Thank you for sharing your feedback and perspective. I'm sorry that your experience has been negative these past five years at Health Catalyst. And I'm sorry we've never had the opportunity to visit 1:1. Many of my skip-level 1:1s each year, particularly in the last few years, have been devoted to getting to know team members who have joined us through acquisitions -- of companies or of departments of health systems that have joined Health Catalyst. Over the past couple years this has included over 400 new teammates. But I still try to hold skip-level 1:1s across different functional areas of the company -- two weeks ago I spent the day meeting 1:1 with about a dozen engineers, and I learned a great deal from those interactions. Also, I would invite you now to meet with me, 1:1, by reaching out to my assistant, Jenn Howard, and we can schedule some time in the next few weeks. I'd be happy to visit to better understand your perspective of how we can improve DOS, which is a focus area of our strategic planning, and discuss together the rationale behind our compensation framework decisions. I apologize that we've needed to make some reductions here, but I'm also hopeful to see improvement as we get through the pandemic and continue to grow. Regardless, I hope for your success and happiness in work and in life. Best, Dan

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