Terrible management and outlook - Lead Software Developer Meditech Employee Review

1.0
May 14, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Co-workers are cool, most supervisors are good but above that level the majority of management should be fired if I'm being honest. There is way too much management in this place and it takes forever to get things done correctly because of all the red tape.

Cons

The pay is embarrassingly low. Lead Software Developers with 10-15+ years of experience make less than 80k. They raised the starting pay to 58k from 40k because they couldn't get anyone to accept a job. Any new computer science degree graduate should never accept an offer from this company. If you do, I suggest you keep applying to other places and leave within your first year. Believe me when I tell you, it will take you over 20 years working at this place to make 100k. They do not like paying people more than 100k its a magic number to them. Not only does the pay suck, the tech stack is probably even worse than the pay which says a lot. The system has horrible performance issues and can't scale. All they do is add band aide fixes on top of the terrible database and programming language which makes the code even more horrible to support. Once you are there for a few years you realize a few things. You are trapped because you have no real world experience programming in mainstream programming languages. The pay, profit sharing and non-matching 401k are so bad that you could work at McDonalds and make almost the same amount of money. CEO - Not sure how this person was promoted to CEO. She has no management or people skills. They pay out dividends in the amount of their net income each quarter. This means that even if they wanted to pay the staff more they cannot do that because they would have to cut the dividend. By the way 99% of the current staff do not own company stock, that is reserved for the people who haven't worked there in 10-20 years who are living large at the expense of the current employees who are making just above a starbucks barista.

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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
Jul 12, 2026
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Pros

MEDITECH is surviving, which wasn't a certainty ten years ago. Considering the low starting salaries for greater Boston, the company tends to be less selective in who they hire compared to other employers. Even with the effect that AI is having on tech hiring.

Cons

The market was MEDITECH's to lose, and they lost it. Without HCA as a customer MEDITECH would be finished. Considerations for job applicants such as inclusiveness and work/life balance are largely irrelevant, as the company's long-term prospects for success are doubtful. MaaS subscriptions don't bring in enough money to make up for the business that was lost to market leader Epic Systems. I am a MEDITECH shareholder, so I see the financial reports. Although I'm pleased that dividends continue to be paid, they are draining the company of badly needed cash to fund a turnaround.

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