BJC HealthCare reviews

401k matching is minimal at best. Management is lacking any managerial skills. Politics are thicker here than when I worked for lawyers, politicians, or the state. You must love being a groundhog in cubicle land. You must love deafening silence while you work. You must be prepared to keep to yourself at all times. Most cubicle neighbors don't even know who sits on the other side of the partition. Be prepared to witness what is known as "failing upward" when it comes to promotions, management, and generally bad employees. Pray that you don't work here when a minor disaster actually occurs. Management does not invest in employees because they feel it enables them to leave. Executives don't know anything about Healthcare and are a large percentage of the employee budget for less than 10 people. Very few people are actually willing to correct a problem because it tends to validate their job. If you work salary expect to be abused unofficially. Management refuses to admit to any problems and will spend a lot of time and money to reinvent a problem into at least a neutral issue if they can't simply sweep it away.

Senior management is clueless. The CEO (Steve Lipstien) of this non for profit company makes 1.9 million a year. He makes 1 million dollars a year more than the second highest paid CEO in town (president of Enterprise Rent-a-Car). Also the company is a hospital management firm. Which mean they get 10 year contracts to manage the hospitals. There are 14 hospitals in the system each one with it's own way of doing things. Senior management is so weak that a concensus can not be reached regarding corporate policies about software and systems. This results in endless amounts of money being wasted on duplicate purchases or incompatible software. Also promotions in IT are based on nothing more than a vote of senior management. Most of whom you will have never met. Essentially it is a good old boys club and only the friends and lackeys of management getting promoted. Many many tallented people leave the company each year for lack of fair treatment with regards to advancement. Stay away from this place if you have self respect. Part of my job was employee satisfaction surveys and if this was a bigger company I assure you they would be tops on the list of places not to work!