Still a great place to work! - Senior Data Architect Health Catalyst Employee Review

5.0
Jun 14, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

Greatest part of working at Health Catalyst is the senior leadership. They are continually asking for what can be done better. After several years, they still ask how they can improve. From what I experienced, they have implemented nearly all suggestions that would really improve the company and culture. From improved benefits, life balance, health improvement, employee recognition and opportunities to innovate. Today the company is a lot larger than when I started. Yet, they are looking for what needs to be improved and they implemented minority groups to address their needs in our company and community. Really supportive and encouraging of team members to support and contribute in our own way.

Cons

Organization changes are disruptive and have caused a few unfortunate employee turnover. We still need more minority groups, like latino and potentially religious affiliations. I think it will be hard to give every minority group a voice. It would take a lot of executive time away from keeping the company moving in a financially responsible direction, but the concepts will help encourage and address where discrimination wasn't intended, but is happening. Team cross pollination doesn't happen as much as it could. We could leverage synergies between different teams and with new teams being developed, it would be nice to hear their vision, what that team is hoping to accomplish this year. Personally, I was interacting with clients more regularly, but with the new organization changes, I am removed from building those relationships and it can be harder to do my job. I feel the stress from other team members and they may divert their anger to me, which makes my life less satisfied. Adding value on project work is restricted/forbidden as others are responsible. I have a feeling of powerless to really support both client and others. My personal work is less satisfying. The situation at times makes me think of the blind leading the blind. Or we are speaking different languages and have no interpreter. After a few mishaps, both of us are frustrated and have less trust in the other.

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Health Catalyst Response
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Thank you for sharing these thoughts, I really appreciate you taking the time to share your perspective. I've read your comments a few times, to try to ensure that I'm understanding your perspective. Let me offer a few thoughts in response to your feedback. First, thank you for sharing the positive experiences you've had at Health Catalyst. I hope that we will always retain the "continuous improvement" mindset, and proactively seek out ways we can become better. This requires careful listening, along with being good learners -- both elements of the attribute of humility. I hope also that we as team members can work to welcome feedback, and look for the truth and the learnings in the feedback, rather than becoming defensive. The more we can exhibit these positive behaviors, the higher my confidence level in our future. I agree with your perspective regarding the positives associated with the affinity groups, and we continue to be supportive of additional affinity groups being set up by interested team members, including the ideas for affinity groups that you suggested, so long as the focus remains consistent with the principles we described in the all-team-meeting where we introduced the concept of affinity groups. Linda Llewelyn has this material if you'd like to reference it. And this reinforces how critical it is for every team member to treat their colleagues at work and in every setting with respect. There is no room for discrimination of any kind, in any circumstance. And I would invite you to reach out to me, Linda (our Chief People Officer) and/or Clara (Our Chief Compliance Officer) to discuss any situations in which you feel there may be any form of discrimination occurring. We are completely committed to no discrimination of any kind. I also appreciated your perspective regarding the challenges associated with the reorg from a year ago. We are still making our way through some of those challenges, and we have more work to do there. We will discuss your perspective in an upcoming leadership team meeting to see what we might be able to do or emphasize to improve the working relationships between Tech and Pro Services, including contributing to meaningful client interactions and engagements. I see evidence that there is commitment and desire to make additional improvements there, so we'll try to emphasize how important this will be. Further, I want to concur that regarding career opportunities at Health Catalyst, there are clear and positive career paths through multiple functional areas and roles at the company. We've worked hard over the past 12months in particular, to establish consistent job families and levels, with a primary objective of emphasizing and communicating to every team member that they can have a bright future, through many paths, including meaningful compensation expansion, at Health Catalyst. While I think we've made meaningful progress, I also acknowledge this is the first time we've introduced this level of structure at the company, and so we're still learning how to leverage this structure in the best way possible. We're working on additional manager training to try to help emphasize these and other critical elements, all as part of a broader effort to help our managers be best-in-class in their effectiveness. These initiatives take time and consistent effort and emphasis to really see improvement (just like outcomes improvements at our clients take time and are difficult to achieve and then sustain). We remain long-term committed to this improvement. Finally, thank you for your >5 years of service at Health Catalyst. You have contributed over a very significant and important part of the company's existence--you've been here for more than half of the company's history, and for the period of highest growth and maturation. Thank you for staying with us, for contributing every day to the success of the company in achieving its mission. And I sincerely hope that you will decide to continue to contribute to the company's success for five or ten or twenty more years! Best, Dan

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