Love the Company! - Analytics Engineer Health Catalyst Employee Review

5.0
Jul 22, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

I love working at Health Catalyst! I feel that we are doing meaningful work and that, in a lot of ways, we are changing the healthcare industry. The one greatest motivator for me is that HC is able to hire and assign managers that genuinely care about us as team members and about our clients and about helping them to achieve their goals. As long as that continues, I believe our success will continue.

Cons

About the only con I see is that we are not doing as much "ignite outcomes improvement" work as we would like. I know we have the talent and other resources to do it, but in some instances, our clients default to the most urgent -- not necessarily the most important -- projects, such as work on compulsory reporting projects (quality measures, etc.), rather than work on pure improvement projects. To the extent we can help our clients catch the vision of how we can help them in these projects, we will really solidify our strong relationships with them.

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Health Catalyst Response
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Thank you for sharing this review, and I'm so happy to hear that you have had such a positive experience with your manager. As I have studied the data on the drivers of team member engagement, it is clear to me that a team member's positive experience with their manager is central to enabling very high engagement levels. We will continue to focus in this area. I also appreciate your feedback regarding the central importance of keeping our improvement-focused mission at the center of everything we do. We are working to find ways to consistently accelerate this focus at each client, and I acknowledge the challenges we face where clients often have other needs that are pressing that, in order to be a great partner to them, we often need to help with. So it is a balancing act, to be sure. And finally, thank you for more than three years contributing to the mission of the company, in such a critical role, as an analytics engineer. You are the face of Health Catalyst in important ways, with our clients. Thank you for representing us and for being so committed to our mission! Best, Dan

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