Avoid Specialty Care Software Development Organization - Anonymous employee McKesson Employee Review

2.0
Jan 27, 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The mission is of course laudible, helping Oncology care providers provide better faster treatment to Patients that have been diagnosed with Cancer. A noble calling. There are a number of people in the software development organization that ended up there when McKesson acquired US Oncology. Those folks, and even some of the McKesson folks, are competent and nice people. Should you end up there, you will figure out who is who in fairly short order.

Cons

Here is why to avoid this software development organization : * The two guys at the head of the organization are inconsiderate, often not in the building, and do not care about your opinion about how best to proceed. This is the case regardless of the technical depth and experience in your background. These two will make decisions that impact a large percentage of the organization without consulting anyone else. * One of these two guys barely can make it into the office by 2pm some days, if at all. Then, will have the nerve when calling into a meeting with a large number of attendees, ask them all to get closer to the phone so he can hear what is being said. Yes, that kind of inconsiderate. How about getting in the building in the morning and attending the meeting in person like the other 15 people are doing? * The other kind of lack of consideration? Agreeing that you will present some slides at an all hands of your organization to show the staff you are behind the process, then when the time comes, not showing up, not saying anything to anyone at all about process concensus, not apologizing to the organizers, not apologizing to the people that had to end up presenting their slides in their absence. Just unbelievable. * The technology choices made there are poor and end up prohibiting your productivity and thus it takes you much longer to get anything accomplished. That is just going to get worse, and the inconsiderate two guys will be the last to raise their hand and say "We made poor technology choices and have to migrate away from them". * Why these two guys haven't been fired is just tragic for all those under them. I guess the reason they are in fact still in place is because they cannot find anyone else that will hire them. How are you going to identify these two individuals? Ask around about them. Ask who made a certain decision and why. You will narrow them down pretty quickly.

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