Meditech reviews

2.7

30% would recommend to a friend

(622 total reviews)

Michelle O’Connor

19% approve of CEO

30% positive business outlook

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2.0
Apr 30, 2013

Get out before they suck you in!

Anonymous employee
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Pros

The only reason people work at this company is if they can not get hired elsewhere. This seems to be their hiring method as most employees are straight out of college with little to no experience in the corporate world. The healthcare and dental benefits are great, but besides that, the company leaves a lot to be desired.

Cons

Working at MEDITECH has taught me a lot about inexpensive medical software. Compared to other software, MEDITECH seems to provide an "affordable solution to healthcare" while jeopardizing functionality and user satisfaction. A lot of the software fixes surface after major issues are reported by multiple healthcare organizations. While users complain about the software, specialists are on the front line taking the grunt of development's oversights. When customers ask for updates on issues with development, specialists are responsible for hiding development's lack of progress. Another issue with MEDITECH are all of the false promises that are offered. When I was hired, I was told that raises are given every year. Well, the company is not doing well this year, so some groups will not be receiving raises. This has caused a lot of specialists to begin looking for employment elsewhere as their entry level salary can not afford them a reasonable lifestyle. I have also overheard supervisors who can not afford to buy houses close to the MEDITECH offices; many supervisors live in western MA and have long commutes because the "MT money" will not allow them to live in close proximity to their job. Lastly, supervisors and the management teams here at MEDITECH do not understand how to manage. As other reviewers have stated, management ends up just micromanaging.

5.0
Mar 31, 2013
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Pros

Job security - they have never laid off an employee, in over 40 years of doing business as a software company. That's a big deal. 90% paid benefits - Better than most other options out there, they pay 90% of your benefits, so you're not losing a lot in your check for that. Management understands what it's like to do your job - even the CEO of the company started out, in the company, as a programmer. Upper management all understands what it's like to be on the front lines of this company, because they've been there. That helps in putting things in perspective. Excellent employees get big raises quickly - if you work hard, show aptitude, and succeed, between salary raises and the bonus (see below), you could double your income inside of five years with the company. Yearly bonus - An annual bonus based on the performance of the company is given out, based on a percentage of your last five years' salary. This has even happened during the economic crisis. Ability to buy well-performing stock in a solid company - after a few years with the company, you get the option to buy stock. This stock has historically performed exceedingly well. Great work/life balance - supervisors and managers understand that employees have lives outside of work. This does not mean that you'll never be asked to work overtime - but it is something that they try to avoid unless necessary.

Cons

Low starting salary - you get hired entry level, you get paid entry level. Takes time for title advancement - some companies will give you a 'senior' title after a couple of years. This takes a longer time, and some actual achievement, to earn at Meditech.

2.0
Mar 19, 2013

It's OK

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Pros

Benefits are excellent, they pick up 90% of medical and dental. They are pretty flexible you can star work anywhere from 7 am to 11 am. after 3 years you can work from home 1 day a week, if it snows hard they send you home for your safesty. Free parking, free soda, coffee and tea Their Cafeteria is pretty good and lunch is about $4.50. The best ever summer picnic with lobster, ribs make your own ice cream, gifts, and dozens of rides for the children. A bonus that is usually around 4% to 5% of your last 5 years of salary. The people are overall pretty nice.

Cons

Training is plentiful albeit very mediocre to horrible, the expertise is there the skills are not. It seems like they get the recipe to teach from a manual in a cracker jack box. Many times the training classes they make you take have nothing to do with your "real" job, but they want you to assist i so they can show it off to the regulators and institutions they cater to how studious their workforce is. Their software is way to complicated, and yes it does anything you would dream of in the medical setting but the learning curve is huge. It takes an average of 18 month to become comfortable with an application. And the pressure to learn the application is tremendous. They always low ball their completion estimates, and hence they are always behind the ball trying to complete the software, which in turn is delivered without being properly tested and validated. Since all employees are "Contractors" there are no OT hours and they are quick to ask you to stay extra hours to finish a given project, and harsh when you need some time off, its the law of the funnel a lot for me a little for you. They put emphasis that they have never laid anyone off in 40 years, and although technicality correct they try to make you quit if you do not fit their profile. I have been trying to get in a new group for 3 months and they are telling me that if I do not find a fit I should quit (not with those exact words, but that is what they convey when they speck with you) Management is all from within the Co., good if you are always doing the same old, bad if you are trying to think outside the box. Supervisors are a dime a dozen, most have no clue what management really means and end up just micromanaging their employees. They say that they are below average in employee turnover, and I do not know if this is true, but to me it seem extremely high especially coming from a Hospital background. My supervisor confessed to me that he has been here 13 years and he tells me that his hiring group was composed of 38 individuals, of which only 1 is left working in the company! Cubicles have no walls therefore there is 0 privacy, so making a phone call to your Doctor, insurance company, wife, etc is very uncomfortable, if you are speaking with a client you have to shush the people around you while also bugging anyone trying to concentrate on their work. The hardware they provide you with (except the laptops) is wholly inadequate to the task at hand. most of these boxes are running Winxp and Pentium 4 with 2.4 Ghz procesors and 1 gig of memory (if you are lucky), they started upgrading to mini acers with telephone processors (atom). And 15" monitors!!! They do not take criticism well, and if you dare question the Meditech "culture" they give you a dressing down and let you know in no uncertain terms that "You either tow the line, or leave"

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