Customer and Employee-centric organization - Anonymous employee Health Catalyst Employee Review

5.0
Mar 3, 2017
Anonymous employee
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Pros

This company has an open approach to engaging customers to achieve better outcomes. They want to be a true partner and they want their employees to feel the same way.

Cons

The detailed tracking of hours is a little distracting and difficult to get right. It reminds me of how lawyers have to track and bill their time which can be very difficult. It is understood that some of this information will be useful for planning company's financial statements.

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Health Catalyst Response
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Agreed on all fronts, and we recently made some adjustments/improvements to our system for time tracking, which hopefully will help. Also working on some additional metrics for tracking some of the items you mention above as well. Thanks!

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