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Jonathan S. Bush
400 Ratings
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Superb work culture with good work-life balance (in 76 reviews)
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work from home option is given for all (in 20 reviews)
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Work life balance can be difficult to achieve without setting boundaries (but possible (in 59 reviews)
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Health Insurance high deductible (in 17 reviews)
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"Programmer"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at athenahealth full-time (More than a year)
Pros
Work Culture, Work Life Balance, Beautiful Office
Cons
Old technology Stack (Perl), Bad Cafeteria
Advice to Management
Should focus more on salary
athenahealth 2017-05-19 23:48 PDT -
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"Associate"
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RecommendsNeutral OutlookApproves of CEOI worked at athenahealth full-time (More than 3 years)
Pros
Wfh option available and cab
Cons
Work life balance depends on the managers
athenahealth 2017-06-02 06:03 PDT -
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"Programmer"
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Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookDisapproves of CEOI have been working at athenahealth full-time (More than a year)
Pros
- Bug fixing in less time(in development teams).
- Agile Methodology(Leading to layoff for testing people).
- There is some skilled developer, can learn a lot from them.
- Year-end parties, even its duration is reduced nowCons
- Management plays politics!!! Not respecting the employees work.Doing good for the people who they like
- As Athena grows, it has forgotten about its positives such as work-life balance. Yeah!! No Work Life balance at present.
- No hikes anymore.
- Promotions.. for fresher... Great question?
- Micromanagement is the worst thing here.
- Development work given (especially in India) is not great.
- Everyone in India is forced to work on support oriented roles.
- Most of the managers have been brought in from service oriented companies and they try to adversely impact the culture of the company
- Perl is the main technology used here, which doesn't have any scope to learn new things, hard to seek a job after getting experience in Athena.Advice to Management
- Give respect to people's work
athenahealth 2017-05-15 01:39 PDT -
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"Software Engineer"
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RecommendsApproves of CEOI have been working at athenahealth full-time (More than a year)
Pros
Good work-life balance. And there is a lot of freedom to explore.
Cons
Not much of development work is happening in India.
athenahealth 2017-04-06 01:49 PDT -
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"Company to settle in later part of career"
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Disapproves of CEOI worked at athenahealth full-time (More than 5 years)
Pros
Work life balance
Decent pay
Occasional US visits
Team outings and year end partiesCons
So many incompetent middle managers either hired or promoted in recent years. They're even afraid to speak up to the US counterparts and just shake head for everything they say.
Visitors from US and local employees are treated differently, but the vice versa is not true.
The only company which has been doing so much product development using perl, so it is quite difficult to get a job outside if a person has spent more than 2 years here.
US office sees Chennai office as a place where it can dump work which it doesn't want its developers to work on, so most of the teams either do bug fixing or work on adhoc requests.
Depending on the relationship with the manager either a person gets promoted too soon or growth gets stagnated. I've seen people with 5-6 years experience promoted to manger who couldn't get a job outside because of this.
To summarise, if all you want is work life balance and don't care much about technical growth or a manager who wants to have stress free job, this is the place for you. If you want to have a good technical career growth, this is not a place for you.Advice to Management
Increase the standards for giving promotion. Don't give promotion just becauae a person has served x yeras in the company. Because of this there're so many middle managers without much experience and competency.
To keep the developers engaged bring in cool projects from US and not support and maintenance.athenahealth 2017-04-15 00:13 PDT -
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"Awesome Work-Life Balance. Decent pay"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at athenahealth full-time (More than a year)
Pros
1. This organization has an awesome work-life balance. You will feel cared.
2. athenahealth doesn't pay too high salary but it would be above market standards. If you are a workaholic and ready to compromise work-life balance then you may feel underpaid.
3. It started with an unmatched culture. But now, it is getting diluted because of wrong leadership. Gradually adopting service based culture. But still, it is way better than 80% companies out there. Work culture here is addicting. I am sure people who left this company must be missing athena for its culture.
4.Free cab facility, food coupons, lots of parties, disco, free food, and drinks.No dress code as such and reimburses gym membership fees up to 10K.
5.Flexible timings.Cons
1. The cafeteria is pathetic. Serves boring meals. Nobody looks into this matter
2. Leadership is changing and culture is also getting diluted. Not an American culture totally.
3. Annual hikes are poor.Advice to Management
Please do something for retaining employees.Management tries to retain them after they put their papers, which is useless. Give hikes, promotions, awards and recognitions to make them stay. A company is made by its employees so please retain them. Attrition rate is very high nowadays.
athenahealth 2017-02-16 13:12 PST -
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"A nice Company"
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Neutral OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at athenahealth full-time (More than 5 years)
Pros
Good Work Culture and Lot of Holidays
Cons
Technical Challenge . Though its imrpoving
athenahealth 2017-02-15 04:59 PST -
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"Athena health India comprises predominantly bug fixing teams in all products who have little scope for development"
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Doesn't RecommendNo opinion of CEOPros
- Learning the art of bug fixing in less time and patching up.
- Learning from people from cross functional backgrounds and different skill sets.
- Some people demonstrated excellent developer mindset and can learn a lot from them.Cons
- Mostly bug fixing work, less respect from US fellow employees and unrealistic expectations. Expect mails about top to bottom changes in architecture without any notice or discussions.
- Outright obsolete technology ( Perl & Webservices) and extremely difficult to find a job outside with the same skill set. Many switched companies just for this one reason.
- Frequent calls during the evenings and nights which will DESTROY your work-life balance.
- The MICRO- Managers are workaholics and expect employees to stretch on par which leaves the employees stressed
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- Managers not the company have the SUPREME authority to take decisions over any employee. HR team is spineless.Advice to Management
- Please learn how process are adhered strictly from CMMI Level -5 companies. People are not fools anymore to follow your oppressive policies.
- Please work on creating work related policies and standardize them by keeping up to date with the process followed in CMMI Level -5 companies.
- Please don't be biased and take highly subjective decisions instead of establishing rules and norms.athenahealth 2017-02-28 01:47 PST -
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"GOOD work life balance"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOPros
good work life balance, cab facility,
Cons
no cons i found as of now
athenahealth 2017-02-10 00:46 PST -
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"2 Years in athena India"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at athenahealth full-time (More than a year)
Pros
1. Superb work culture with good work-life balance.
2. Appreciations and promotions.Cons
1. Not so challenging work.
Advice to Management
Keep it up
athenahealth 2017-02-06 19:26 PST -
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