Pros
Lots of industry experts were employed there during my tenure. Great resources and experience to learn from early on. Get what you can quickly. A great place to network for a better job on the outside. Fresh grads are welcomed and it's a good place to determine if Healthcare IT truly interests you. Newbies are usually welcomed warmly.
Cons
Management change after hostile restructuring introduced a level of distrust that was seriously toxic. Employees were turning on each other to try and save their own jobs. Entire teams and critical resources and teams were annihilated leaving bare bones staffing to shore up massively failing products to a dissintegrating client base. Not to mention the mass exodus of their best resources. One huge layoff of many in 2 years, consisted only of those of average age of 45+, most all with either their own or familial severe medical issues and expenses and even with child. For a company who is self-insured this was a way to devastate employees lives while helping their bottom line, while hoping to sell the company off to the highest bidder. Multiple employees died of cancer and each of them shared stories with many others of how the company helped destroy their health completely. One employee stated that every cancer cell in her body had the company name stamped on it due to the abuse she received even while very sick. Now factor in that there were no bidders seriously interested in buying this toxic machine and their largest flagship clients were leaving by the dozens due to a 20+ year old code base on an antiquated platform, you quickly see how the company had no choice but to go into huge debt by acquiring companies who do everything better, and try to piece meal them into a marketable product. And it's still not working remotely as planned. Worst of all, this was all at the expense of their best talent and it's still happening. People come and go in all businesses as that is the nature of business evolution to a degree, yes. Though the company developed a cyclical way trying same old methods, one after the other, over and over while achieving the same results which is desperation in a market they once dominated and they are now watching the waves slowly suck them into an undercurrent. 'Most Improved' was recently awarded to one of their products which more appropriately put would have been coined 'From Rags To Ripples' in a huge sea of superior competition. Every company and great idea has a shelf life. From my previous manager, 'This company has seen its own shelf life come and go, just watch' The most recent 're-branding' is yet another attempt to beg its employees to stay while the iceberg continues to rip through the hull. Ladies and gentlemen, please proceed to your muster stations. Even the current situation isn't looking well.