Sinking Ship being looted by executives
Pros
OK health insurance Fairly easy job Can be a good entry point for recent graduates who are stuck in the "need experience to get a job; need a job to get experience" loop. But, emphasis on entry point. This is not somewhere you are meant to stay, nor is it somewhere to transition to if you already have a career.
Cons
Just read all of the reviews. And not just the recent flurry of them in the last year or so. You can go back to the beginning to see all of the problems this company has. You can go back to about mid-2019 to see where the latest disaster in leadership started to become apparent. But here's a lightning round of reasons you should not work here: Terrible Pay. Like, a joke. People who've started their careers here and stayed a long time don't realize just how underpaid they are. And no the health insurance does not make up for it. Nor do any promises of bonuses or profit sharing. Leadership is NOT keen on sharing their profits. More on that in a moment. Forced, meaningless in-office requirements. You aren't paid enough to live near their offices. Your coworkers are probably in different offices anyway so you're still collaborating virtually. MEDITECH is mostly a commercial real estate company masquerading as an electronic health record vendor, so it makes sense why they're scrambling to get people into the buildings. But wow is it pointless and disrespectful to the employees' time and quality of life. Lousy product. Yes even the newer stuff, but the fact that they refuse to EOL products from the 80's doesn't help either. Have fun supporting decades of clunky spaghetti code written by developers who've never been told what a refactor is. (A lot of the devs are good people who are good at what they do, but the organization doesn't enable them to make a good product.) Here's the big one though, that ties all the other problems together: Horrendous leadership. At best, you've got semi-competent but well meaning dinosaurs who don't know how to run a business. Only promoting from within means you don't really have people with management experience coming into the company. You're just run by people whose experience is "existing at MEDITECH for a long time." The best ideas you're going to get from this crowd is to reorganize their own titles, and spin up a role of sycophantic "ombudsmen" to just toe the company line whenever criticism comes up. Oh and to give themselves raises and "emeritus" roles when they retire but still want to take money from the company. At worst, you have people like the current disaster of a CEO, Michelle O'Connor. MEDITECH was already a lousy place to work before she got the top job. But we truly may never know how the leadership back then looked at the human embodiment of the phrase "because I said so" and thought "yeah put her in charge." It's not even that vaguely sociopathic trait that some argue is an asset to CEOs, because if that were the case at least she'd be calculating and competent. Instead you still get the narcissism, tone deafness, and condescension, just without the perks of a company that actually has a chance of surviving the next 5 years. Look, it's clear as day what's happening under this batch of leadership. They took stock ownership away from employees and gave it only to themselves; they slash holidays, bonuses, profit sharing, etc. while reaping huge dividends for themselves; they take six figure raises while freezing raises for their already criminally underpaid workforce; they mandate a return to the office buildings they own and have a major financial stake in their valuation; they lay off employees for the first time ever and flush their claim to job security down the toilet -- formerly the one solid thing I was going to add as a Pro in this review! This is a smash and grab job by a group of retirement-adjacent people looking to enrich themselves off of the product employees have sunk their time and labor into, before this sinking ship of a company goes under. Employees report feeling like cattle because that's what this group sees you as. If you're thinking of applying here, you probably do still have a couple years to get some easy experience under your belt before this place fully sinks. You'll be working for people who hoard all of the value you create for themselves and are, frankly, insufferable. But you'll get a foot in the door and work with some decent albeit exploited people. After a couple years though, at this rate, I wouldn't chance it. Look elsewhere.
