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Balancing Act - Anonymous employee Maxwell Health Employee Review

5.0
Jan 12, 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Overall I had a great experience at Maxwell, it's a culture embedded by young ambitious millennials. Your team and the people around you will be highly motivated to achieve goals. * Great place to accelerate career * Decent 401k match for a startup * Bonus incentive at the end of year (payout happens at end of Q1) * Open to using new solutions if it fits business goals * Flexible PTO * Communication driven organization

Cons

I worked in engineering, and you will burn yourself out if you struggle with time management. There are several unrealistic goals and deadlines placed on engineering, this has however improved. Many people commit themselves to 50-80 hr work weeks and management kindly turns a blind eye on this. Not providing enough supervision creates a culture of promoting burnout. Implementation Consultants and Services members seem to face the brunt of the immense workload. Investing in small in-house automation tooling would ease workload. Tough to get a break unless you have a team that promotes a healthy work life balance. Although there is a communal sense to go on more breaks. Ideally there would be a push from management or HR to go on more breaks.

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Maxwell Health Response
8y
Thank you for the review. You're right that here at Maxwell, we're surrounded by energetic and ambitious employees and it makes it a great place to work. I agree with you about burnout being a concern, and that is at the top of our radar. We have been working on actionable ways to ensure more balance for employees and will continue to do so. Kathy

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Cons

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5.0
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Pros

I've worked at a lot of places over the years so I've developed a strong sense of "red flags" over my time. Before I accepted a position at Maxwell I wanted to meet the founders because I've learnt the hard way that the culture of a company generally starts from the top down. Luckily for me the founders at Maxwell are both incredible and honestly, truly, want to build an amazing company that makes benefits better in America. They are both incredibly passionate about Maxwell, and the mission, and they live up to their own values constantly. If you're reading this you probably already know how rare that is, and how often values disappear when money is on the table. This is not the case at Maxwell and it makes me proud to be here. The other big pro (and when it comes down to it what else really matters) are the people at Maxwell. Incredibly smart, hard working, and just downright nice people surround me every day I'm at work and it's a constant pleasure to work with them. Everyone is genuinely committed to doing whatever it takes for our customers and I've witnessed people really going out on a limb to help in any way they can. Oh, and a minor point but we're starting to build up a really strong remote work culture which I personally think is incredibly important.

Cons

I honestly don't have a huge amount to write about here. Our problems are similar to any company of this age and size, some tech debt to fight, struggles to get conference rooms because we've grown so fast, and touchy wifi! Nothing major to complain about.

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Maxwell Health Response
9y
Thank you for providing your perspective and insights. I echo all your feedback Maxwell Health is a company that is passionate driven and focused on building great technology with an amazing team. Kathy Breslin VP People
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