As mission- and team-member-oriented as a company gets - Anonymous employee Health Catalyst Employee Review

5.0
Jul 8, 2018
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Individuals aim to keep the mission and team members in mind when making decisions. Innovation in Health Catalyst technology and professional services organizations is critical to enable customers to make better, data-driven decisions. Health Catalyst could truly help improve the healthcare ecosystem

Cons

Still a lot of maturing to do across the company (products, services, operations) as the company scales (but it is fun to be a part of a scaling company!). Need to focus on measuring the performance of team members so that high-performing team members get rewarded and low-performing team members don’t simply get shuffled around to different positions – keeping low-performing team members demoralizes those that work hard and are high performers, especially when everyone is on the same bonus structure

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Health Catalyst Response
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Thank you for your encouraging words and for your constructive feedback as well. Thank you also for contributing to the company's mission for over three years. Your longer-term commitment to the company makes a difference. I share your vision that Health Catalyst can play an important role in enabling meaningful transformation in healthcare, both through our technology and our services. I also agree with your assessment that we have a lot of maturing to do across the company. We are trying to become more "courageously transparent" in dealing with performance issues (this is one reason we as a leadership team are considering adding "courageous" as a modifier to the operating principle of transparency, to emphasize that transparency is most critical in challenging situations, including when there is a performance issue that needs to be addressed, and often requires courage). We also continue to try to think carefully about benefitting from the team-based mindset and bonus infrastructure, while also having ways to recognize extraordinary individual performance. Recognizing extraordinary individual performance has largely come through the promotion process and through off-cycle compensation adjustments. But there is likely more we can do there. I'll visit with Linda (our Chief People Officer) on this topic, and see what we can learn from other companies in this regard. Thank you for your feedback and for your contributions to the company's mission. Best, Dan

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