UPMC reviews

3.2

48% would recommend to a friend

(5,445 total reviews)
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Leslie C. Davis

36% approve of CEO

41% positive business outlook

UPMC has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 5,445 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The UPMC employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Healthcare industry (3.4 stars).

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1.0
Mar 3, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Cheap benefits, some colleagues were good to work with, emphasis is placed on providing patients with good care.

Cons

Poor upper management, over 50% turnover in Internal Audit, company is losing a lot of money and not holding financial executives responsible for properly managing their divisions, department is very understaffed to properly handle an organization with over 60,000 employees (UPMC grew too quickly and management is unable to keep up), employees are not treated well and HR does not help or support employees, rather, HR is only interested in supporting upper management. Parking is a hassle enterprise-wide. UPMC does not disclose that you must be there 3 years in order to be vested in PTO prior to starting working there. Instead, this is made known after you start working there... so if you leave before 3 years, you lose all of the PTO you accumulated. Upper management takes forever to get anything done, they are very indecisive and there is a lot of red tape for getting anything done. When the company loses money, they make cuts with staffing all over, rather than fixing the problem with upper management and bad practices that are causing these losses. When going to UPMC healthcare providers, their billing messes everything up and charges for services that should not have been billed to their patients (such as items that should have been covered by the health plan or products that the patient never ordered or received), and it takes months for their billing department to resolve these issues. UPMC is constantly putting their competitors down and has made business decisions that exclude other health plan subscribers away from their providers. This ultimately hurts patients and doctors and does not put their needs first, but puts the needs of UPMC before anything else.

3.0
Jan 16, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good pay for corporate employees with some growth opportunities. The benefits are decent though expensive for being an EPO. If you are in with management, you are set.

Cons

Men have the upper hand in negotiations, and certainly have higher salaries and bonus potential. If you don't play managements game, you will be punished and eventually guided out of the organization.

3.0
May 21, 2016

ISDR

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

If you don't already understand how a corporation works you will have a chance to develop multiple perspectives. There are many great people at UPMC, you will have a chance to meet and network with some genuine folks who have been around a long time. If you want to be at UPMC for a very long time, this is a great way to embed yourself with the managers and start the political maneuvering that's required for a long career with a large corporation. If you're a fan of the Microsoft Stack UPMC is basically converting to a MS shop. There were never any standards. At one point I just stopped doing work and walked around Oakland for a couple weeks. No one asked any questions. No one wondered about projects. I went 100% Office Space and it was awesome. You'll never have to study or re-learn. Tired of staying relevant in your field? This is perfect for you. Modern tools are shunned. Best practices abhorred and open software is a dirty word. Never again will you have to worry about what the smart people in your field have contributed - because you'll never learn or use it here. Meeting the people is the best part of UPMC.

Cons

Run like this is the plague. After two years the only experience you have is with UPMC and you will not work on your college discipline during this time. To date, this experience has been the most difficult to explain and quantify to employers. E.g. "This is great to UPMC but it does not bring anything to the table for us" Pay is very low. This is marketed as a retention and advancement program. It retains you because you won't be able to find a job for at least two years post-program. This is anathema to your career if you want to work anywhere but UPMC in the first five years after graduating. Doing IT in healthcare makes you a permanent second class citizen. You will repeatedly have to sacrifice standard and form to accommodate for the business needs of other systems. Which sounds reasonable, until you find out you won't be working with a REST API because when the healthcare system was made SOAP was all the rage. Or how you'll have to drop everything to do Meaningful Use or some HIPAA program because last person had 48 months and did nothing for 47 of them. Don't even get me started on the number of silo'd engineers who can't transition work because UPMC has no code review or standards. This will not develop your career. Oh right, also the CIO has an insurance background. He's a nice guy but your division's top leader probably asks his grand kids to turn on his phone for him. It's not an ageism thing, it's willful ignorance - and most management follows this pattern.

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