Intellectually stimulating work but watch out for landmines - Senior Analytics Engineer Health Catalyst Employee Review

3.0
25 Jan 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

* Pay and benefits are competitive and at par with rest of the industry. * Occasional spot bonuses and RSU grants keep people motivated * Efforts in diversity, inclusion, equality on all fronts from senior leadership. * There are various areas that TMs can try their hands. The size of operations and client base make access to different tools, methodology, and techniques possible. * Vision, mission, and culture is very well defined. Makes you want to believe in the company. * Generous time off and parental leave * Senior leadership team does a good job in conveying the market challenges and opportunities of the company. Plan ahead is well defined.

Cons

* Burnout is real. Several team members have already left. The ones that work hard usually get more work dumped at them. Pay attention to employee churn. * Pay is good but not above and beyond what market pays for the skill that you will make available. * Hands off management only applies to senior leadership. There is no way to change your direct manager if you end up in a team of micro-manager. SLT encourages to speak up, but humility weighs you down to not make a big deal. * Promotions and raises are harder to get. Only applies to individuals that are preferred by direct managers. * Flexible time off = no time off, and only take time-off if your manager or fellow team members do. It's much simpler math when you accrue PTO and use your own judgement on when to use it. Company mandated TO during religious holidays are very unnecessary. Let the TM decide when they want time off and for how long. * Post-Dan Burton company is very hard to imagine. There is no one that can champion the vision as well as Burton does.

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Health Catalyst Response
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Thank you for this detailed review and feedback, and for your more than four years of service at Health Catalyst. I appreciate the positives that you shared around compensation, benefits, DE&I, and leadership communication. I also appreciate the constructive feedback you shared in some really important areas. Regarding burnout, we are hopeful to make meaningful progress and improvement here in 2022 as part of our operating plan, which includes much higher investment levels than in the prior two years which were negatively impacted by the pandemic. We've also appreciated your feedback and others' similar feedback about "flexible/unlimited PTO" which has sometimes translated into very little PTO, and in today's all-team-member meeting we'll be providing a new updated "time off" framework, which we'll emphasize with every people manager and repeat in future all team member meetings, incorporating the concept of a "minimum" time off of just over 5 1/2 weeks -- every company holiday plus minimum PTO, to add to 28 days or just over 5 1/2 weeks per year for every team member. We've also included meaningful other compensation elements in the 2022 operating plan, including base salary increases, a meaningful promotion allocation, increased 401(k) match to 4%, above-market annual equity grants, etc. I hope these items, together with a much larger incremental R&D investment in 2022, will bring more help and enable less burnout moving forward. Thank you also for your kind words directed towards me, personally. You're not getting rid of me any time soon, so I'm excited for us to be on this journey together for years to come! Best, Dan

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