Meditech Reviews

Pros

Meditech is a stable company, with 40+ years in business and noone laid off, EVER. A 40 hour workweek is legitimately a 40 hour workweek, you aren't expected to work overtime, weekends, and the like. Since all external hiring is strictly entry level, supervisors, managers and the like most likely worked, at some point, in the same job you do, keeping them in touch with your responsibilities. It feels a lot like a family environment, the summer picnic is superb, and the cafeteria provides decent (not great) food at a very reasonable price (which is discounted for Meditech employees relative to what other tenants in the same building pay). A significant amount of time right off the bat is spent with training and mentoring to prepare you for your responsibilities, rather than throwing you directly in the fire. The job stability, combined with the way that benefits (including bonuses) scale based on tenure make this a company that you can work for an entire career at. This is not a fly-by-night startup - they've shown a long tradition of maintaining slow, steady growth, which only adds to the stability.

Cons

As you'll see as a common theme with other reviews, entry level compensation is low, and in an area with an extremely high cost of living. As the negative point of the job stability, not everyone you have to work together with will have the same level of skill and work ethic that you may have. Some information necessary to accomplish your job duties may not be easy to find - having strong interpersonal networking skills is very important to be truly effective at your job. Different groups within the company have different rules, guidelines, and ways of working, so depending on which group you end up in, things can be entirely different from another.

Advice to Senior Management

Improving access to internal information will make it easier for a lot of people to do their job effectively. Standardizing rules and guidelines across groups would be beneficial. Otherwise, maintaining the strong focus on customer relationships is going to be the key to continuing to thrive in the industry.

Pros

The company provides great benefits and has an annual bonus. The work environment is great; people are friendly and there is open communication.

Cons

They do not pay enough. If they paid their employees more, the quality of the products would increase exponentially, so would their customers' satisfaction.

Advice to Senior Management

Offer higher salaries and hire externally for upper management positions if necessary. Some supervisors are just not competent enough but were given the position because they stayed at the company for many years.

Pros

-Excellent Benefits
-Fairly relaxed environment
-Good people/young workforce
-Locations throughout Boston
-Fairly flexible on vacation time as well as sick time

Cons

-Reluctant to change
-Old Software and practices
-Poor management (they only promote from within, which makes for poor leadership)
-Poor knowledge sharing within the company
-They try to milk as much as they can from you for the short time they know they will have you.
-Poor pay

Advice to Senior Management

I believe that the management team at Meditech could use some work. After talking with many other managers from various other companies it is easy to see that Meditech leadership can use work. They promote from within and this is their problem. What ends up happening is that people are promoted based on tenure rather than leadership skills.

Pros

Management at Meditech have all been promoted from within. With that said, it's truly the luck of the draw and you MAY end up with one of the good sales directors who are involved with their sales people, providing them with the support in order to ensure success. If this is the case you will no doubt be challenged with the lack of solid opportunities, but you will at least be treated fairly, work with your team, and your job will be palatable.

Cons

Because of the "promote-from-within" practice, a "civil-service" type environment exists, and many of the sales directors are/have been promoted simply due to seniority. When this happens, the people underneath suffer, and a successful sales environment does not exist. Ideas are held "close to-the-vest, information is not shared among team members and there is a severe lack of mentoring. A real attitude also exists when it comes to supporting customers who have invested millions, as if they are "daring" to ask for something. Meditech cannot afford to continue to behave in this manner in order to succeed in the current, frequently changing HCIS marketplace.

Advice to Senior Management

Look outside your four walls, update your business practices, and bring in help from "the outside", it can actually be a good thing! Quit "grabbing: people on the cheap and search for experienced developers, software engineers and REAL sales people. Reduce your 15+ rep sales teams so there is equal and measurable opportunities available to all. Lastly, pay a competitive, if not above average, salary to your employees, so the "bonus" each year is actually a "bonus", and stop asking your people to pay out of their pocket for YOUR business expenses.

Meditech COULD be among the best places to work in the Boston area....but even with their multi-multi millions in revenues and multiple sites...it's not surprising at all that they've never been (and never WILL be) on the list.

Pros

Good benefits

Fun work environment

Very stable industry

Good leadership & coworkers (depends on the group - mine was young and laid back)

Great career path after getting a few years experience and leaving MT.

Cons

Salary is horrendous (and no the "great" bonus does not compensate for this).

Gossip dominates this place

Little room for growth/advancement unless you relentlessly kiss ass or are friends with your
supervisor)

Advice to Senior Management

Be open to change !!! Not every policy made in 1981 is still relevant today!

Pros

MEDITECH offers a flexible work schedule, great health care benefits, and a relaxed atmosphere. Theoretically, you could work your entire life with the company and never really have to work hard a day in your life.

Cons

Here is the thing: No one cares. It is a total slacker environment. The pay and raise structure is terrible. Promotions are purely tenure based. It is a total high school culture. People read your emails and they count how many pencils you take from the stock room.

Advice to Senior Management

Make promotions merit based and reward talent with decent raises.

Pros

5 cent soda, good food that you are not allowed time to eat.

The caf is good but they encourage you to eat at your desk.

Cons

The worst company I ever worked for, I quit during training period.
The turnover is unbelievable, the owner made his own method to calculate employee turnover that does not count people that quit before working a full year. Pay is a joke, I was the highest paid recruit in my class by far and still quit. They track your every move as you must sign in every time you change areas. The product is in the stone ages. There is little upward movement and managers make half of their pay recruiting new people.
The owner will not let you use real office software, as he insists that this is a "software company" and makes you use in house developed word processing and other programs that are straight out of the 1980's and cause many hours of extra work.
They will not let you use any sick days, they say that is your "long term disability".

I heard that they offer as low as 24K a year to start, they make you travel 2 weeks of the year for that slave wage.

The owner forces employees to buy private company stock, he lost most of that money investing in real estate.

Advice to Senior Management

Stop being a yes man-women, the company is a joke.

Pros

1)Benefits are untouchable by any other company. The is 90% paid Blue Cross medical, dental, and vision, gym facility, discount lunches, free coffee, tea, and soft drinks, discount dry cleaning, etc..

2)Most of the facilities have a lot of young professionals so the atmosphere tends to be very laid back and social.

3)Time off/Vacation is usually approved

4)The experience will get you a dream job with dream salary

Cons

1)Because they on hire internally you will start at the bottom of the barrell at an entry level position, which is not ideal for anyone who has a grad degree or has 5+ years experience. The reasoning is that most employees who have a senior level position never leave and thus you will never move up in the company. Also, just because someone has a moved to senior level position doesnt mean they are fit to manage...they may know the software very well, but have not capability of using effective managerial skills to motivate and train employees well.

2)Entry level = the most embarassing salary I've ever had. I am completely insulted by their offer, which is non negotiable.

3)Sometimes the social factor will backfire on employees. Try not to get caught up the "Meditech" lifestyle, because it will easily consume you. Everything about your life will change as far as friends you hang out with, possible romantic relationships, your scedule for personal life. Things like this will bring out rumors and other drama in the work place. I dont know from personal experience, but Ive seen it happen.

4)Training process is boring at first and then it will hit you like a lead brick. Also, those who train you can be quite cocky and intimidating when trying to relay the information back.

Advice to Senior Management

Take plenty of management courses, because you have no idea what your doing.

Pros

The benefits, such as health insurance and vacation/sick time, are unparalleled. Management is very receptive to employee feedback and the group setting is very personal and friendly. There is ample training provided. The food is awesome!

Cons

Starting salary is low compared to other companies in a similar industry (but this is outweighed by the generous benefits). The company is dead-set in their ways and are somewhat reluctant to change.

Advice to Senior Management

Be more receptive to suggestions from employees about how MEDITECH can change or evolve to better compete in the industry.

Pros

Meditech trains their employees well to get them good experience. Management listens to their employees and helps them with their career.

Cons

Meditech does not pay their employees what they are worth. Employees can gain experience at Meditech and then go elsewhere for better pay.

Advice to Senior Management

If you want to keep your employees you need to pay them for what they are worth. Unless you will always have unhappy customers and unhappy employees.