Lost It's Way - Anonymous employee Health Catalyst Employee Review

I have struggled to put my finger on what has bothered me as time as gone on. I have been here a while and have seen many changes and honestly the direction is very, very discouraging and disappointing. The culture is gone, plain and simple. This is just another run of the mill company. The company cares about billable hours and not actual outcomes. That's secondary, billable hours is the priority. This means wild west on solutions being re invented over and over. You have so many leads assigned to a client, TD, AD, CSL, SAE, and whatever other billable acronym you can think of. And they all want to be in charge. It’s a gigantic mess. So much fighting for hours and credit with no focus on the outcomes. Praise and promotions are given to those with the loudest voice, not those with the skills or ability. Just the loudest voice and boy, are there some loud voices, and they get promotions. They are destroying high functioning teams by trying to move to a shared, consolidated resource system or even talent pools. This is to save the teams that are failing while causing a disruption to those teams that are functioning. Trying to consolidate and resource pool talent is never a good idea, loss of productivity, ownership, focus and specialization as well as morale. For very little to no return. Product managers are also being subjected to the same structure, and there is also this notion that a product manager should not be a subject matter expert in the area their product. I liken that to a Ford project being led by someone who has never been in a car. To me, it makes no sense, but this is how it is. They are hiring new positions with the purpose of overseeing and micromanaging other positions on other teams, such as product managers. It’s micromanagement at its finest. In addition to the job promotions, hiring for high level positions is very shady. They post a job with qualifications that appear to be copied from the resume of the person they have already planned to hire. Recent reviews have surfaced similar concerns and the reply has been "feel free to look elsewhere" I think my road at Catalyst has come to an end. Which is sad, I am deeply committed to the team I am on. But they consistently throw more and more morale killing red tape. This company is not running lean. Almost everyone has two bosses, this goes along with that whole shared resource thing. It doesn't work.