Jan 5, 2022
Aledade Sr. Software Engineer reviews
3.9
97% would recommend to a friend
Farzad Mostashari
100% approve of CEO
92% positive business outlook
Sr. Software Engineer employees have rated Aledade with 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 15 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Sr. Software Engineer professionals have a good working experience there. Aledade is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Sr. Software Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Healthcare industry (3.4 stars).
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5.0
Oct 13, 2021
Genuinely the best job I've ever had
Current employee, more than 3 years
Bethesda, MD
Recommend
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Pros
Note that all of these points are from the perspective of Engineering, and may not apply to other departments. - Phenomenal work-life balance. I hardly ever work over 40 hours, on call time is minimal and fairly rotated, and after-hours incidents are rare. - 100% remote if you want to be, for most roles. The company has always promoted remote work where possible and our remote tooling, VPN, cloud, etc. are excellent. - Job is exactly as was described in the interview. No bait-and-switch with unexpected roles/responsibilities. - We _know for a fact_ the code we ship does good work for society, often saving patients' lives. - Our tech stack is modern, and the company is willing to spend money on good tooling if it gets the job done better. - Management is knowledgeable, setting a course but letting us determine how to execute it. Very little micro-managing. - Company culture is friendly, welcoming, and rewarding. Hard work and major contributions are recognized and shared with the whole company. The CEO will know you by name. - The company at least tries to care about social issues and under-representation in tech roles. In particular, we have many women in director roles, something that was rare at my old jobs. - Compensation is competitive. - The company's financial future looks solid. - I haven't even considered looking for a new job since starting.
Cons
- While the company tries to recruit under-represented people for tech roles, we still could do better. As we're rapidly scaling, we should be hiring more women and ethnic minorities, but I haven't seen representation improve in the several years I've been here.. - When I started a few years ago, the company had about 100 people, about 20 of them in Engineering. We're now at something like 600 people, and still growing. Growth and scaling are good; I just worry the company culture might change with our success. I sure hope it doesn't.
4.0
May 11, 2021
Great people, great mission, mixed bag of other stuff
Current employee, more than 3 years
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros
You'll work with a bunch of really empathetic and kind people dedicated to making the American healthcare system better. Work-life balance is respected, and the company has a mature remote work culture. As an engineer, you'll have no problems getting the tools needed to do your job, and middle management is pretty good at taking care of us and helping us get better at our jobs and advancing. Internal promotions happen often, and you can really grow here as an engineer. Despite any cons, the company is successful, and will be in for an interesting ride over the next few years.
Cons
Life on a product-facing engineering team can be tough. You'll be told your team has areas you're responsible for, but there's a good chance you'll be bouncing around from project to project every few months, with little to no time given to dig into and really own a feature or a domain. And those projects you were told to work on? They're rarely well-scoped, the outcomes are almost never data-driven and the problems rarely well-defined, and by the time you and your team understand what you're doing, it'll be time to slap together something real quick, and move on to the next thing. As a product engineer, you'll have little to no input as to what your team works on, but you'll be held accountable for anything that doesn't go right, even as your stakeholders seem to face no consequences for delivering a barely-baked idea. There also isn't a ton of innovation happening in the product engineering space, and leadership can be resistant to change, even if it brings improvement (or brings the software in line with modern technical standards). Benefits are starting to feel skimpy, especially if you're in a major metro area. The company still has no sick leave, the education benefit is small and hard to use, and HR seems totally out of touch (to the point where they just implemented a new, god-awful PTO and payroll management system with zero feedback from employees). Salary is lower than what you'll make at similarly-sized and "tech-y" companies. Despite a lot of talk, engineering leadership has totally failed to make any real inroads at hiring a more diverse team.
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