Driven by people and culture - Senior Software Engineer Health Catalyst Employee Review

5.0
3 Sept 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Leadership runs Health Catalyst with the people in mind. I feel valued and it shows through policies and the priorities management gives me. In my roles I have had good relationships with my direct manager and felt very valued and productive and I think those values were trickled down through senior leadership. I just got back from a generous paternity leave where I was given sufficient time to not worry about work and take care of the new baby. It says alot about a company that I didn't worry too much about work.

Cons

A few years ago, I submitted a glassdoor review stating that the large teams within health catalyst didn't communicate nor collaborate very well. This has improved significantly and I have seen large steps taken to break down barriers and collaborate better. This is still an issue but I am optimistic that it will continue to improve. Survey fatigue! I can only answer the questions "Would I recommend working at Health Catalyst to a friend?" so many times! Senior leadership does let us know they read reviews and use the results of surveys, but I have a hard time caring when most of the questions are the same and get over a dozen surveys a year. It seems they value being "Best company to work for" more than utilizing the answers and improving. It is important for recruiting, but I think if the employees are fatigued, they will give less accurate answers and just give what they think senior leadership wants.

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Health Catalyst Response
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Thank you for your review and feedback, and I'm very glad to hear that you feel appreciated and valued, and that you had a positive experience being enabled to take paternity leave -- congratulations on your new arrival! I also feel grateful for your 5+ years of work contributing to Health Catalyst's growth and success, as a senior software engineer. Your role is critical to our success and I appreciate your long-term commitment to the company. I am also encouraged to receive your feedback about cross-organizational collaborations. We certainly still have room for improvement, but I also see progress. We'll keep focusing here, which I believe will help us continue to improve. Thank you also for sharing the feedback regarding survey fatigue, particularly as it relates to "Best Place to Work" surveys. We probably do need to reduce this, so we will take that as an action item. We can keep a focus on those surveys where we study the responses and take action in order to work to continuously improve and/or make an important decision. We'll discuss one such survey during today's all-team-member meeting, where we would like to have the benefit of team members' perspective before making a strategic decision. Finally, thanks for the suggestion regarding support for Open Space. We'll discuss your suggestion as a leadership team, for an Open Space day once a year. Thank you again for your 5+ years of contribution to our company! Best, Dan

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