How are career development opportunities at Smart Data Solutions?

1. Every developer will be ready to help and share their knowledge which is good 2. One can gain healthcare domain knowledge to some extend. 3. There was flexible WFH policy but they are changing that now

1. The salary is low for the work load that's given 2. The company grew a lot in the last two years but the workforce haven't expanded. Neither our pays were increased. 3. The ceo sets unrealistic expectations, not knowing how much workload each team is taking up, which is now turning the environment a bit toxic. 4. The technology is very old. 5. Night shift 6. I'm noticing that internal switch is not possible here. They would rather take up someone new than providing more career opportunities to the current employees

There are some good people who work here doing the hard work in the trenches

The development work done is quite simplistic and you won't learn much. It's almost just busy work. There is also extremely limited career opportunities to be had. You basically need to cross your fingers that one of the small group of experienced developers quits and pray they don't hire from outside the company to have any upward mobility. SDS is effectively a dead end job for developers and you'll regret working here and feel like you wasted years of your life. Sounds like it could just be chill to not worry about trying to be promoted? Wrong! It is a constant game of whack a mole. Your plate of tasks will be constantly overflowing and you'll be stressed out of your mind. The second you complete something, three more things will be dropped on you to finish. Need some help with something? Everyone else is too busy to help you so good luck! "I'll just read the documentation" you say? Well surprise surprise there isn't any. It's literally just the code explains the code strategy. Fun stuff! I'll just power through and employ strategies to keep up with everything. Nope! The amount of red tape you have to navigate is astounding and they're only adding to it. Only a small handful of the busiest people in the company are able to review and approve almost any request or project for a client. If none of them are able to get to it, then guess what it's your fault for some reason! Everything is breaking constantly. Always embarrassing being on a call with a client and our services go down. Clients will ask for RCA documentation and internal teams are always like which one? Company backburners system integrity and growing tech debts frequently and focuses on bringing on more clients onto a shaky platform. At least the work is fulfilling right? Wrong! This company perpetuates a healthcare system that ruins lives. Their sole mission is to help health insurance companies make more money and take a cut of it. During a company wide townhall meeting, upper management bragged about how a new client was able to lay off an entire team after SDS automated their jobs then clapped their hands after like those people didn't have families or anything. The CEO? I bet you, yes you dear reader, could do a better job by just googling "How to be a CEO" and winging it. There were at least two occasions where I've seen an article pop up on a feed with a title like "Why CEOs are now pushing for xyz", then magically the next day the CEO is preaching that xyz is now a company focus like it's this amazing new idea he had. Additionally, he is hilariously tech illiterate. Maybe not super relevant to be a CEO, but funny for a tech company with a tech illiterate leader. Also the company holiday party disappeared after he came along. Kinda tells you all you need to know right there. Well maybe I'll just jump in anyway and work hard and it'll be rewarded? Don't! Do the bare minimum all year? Your raise is 3%. Work super hard all year? Believe it or not, 3% At least I can work and make friends amongst some diverse coworkers. Wrong again! Outside of the offshore employees they pay starvation wages to, the roles they deem must be done onshore are filled by 98% white people. Also you'll never not sound like a nerd telling people you work at Smart Data Solutions. A nerd in a bad way though. Nerd stuff is cool and there is something for everyone, but sheesh not like this please

Lenient, not as strict as most places. Originally we did not have benefits, but eventually we got some which were nice. I appreciated that.

Pay is low and raises are rare. Any sort of benefit we receive means no raise for like two years. As inflation is outpacing pay, coworkers are looking for opportunities elsewhere. Moral is pretty low because of this. There is NO opportunity for career growth in this company. Due to OCR (marketed as AI) takes a chunk of the workload now, we are expected to process things that are harder to discern in the same amount of time. So now we have been running into constant teetering of quality and through rate issues. Extra projects we are put on have little or unclear documentation, or there are some odd exceptions not stated anywhere. The constant checking and going back and forth on projects as we run out of work means processing has slowed down, and harder to get back to optimal speed and mentally taxing, but still expected to have the same output. It is a good entry level job, but expect to move on if you want more pay or to advance your career.

Lenient, not as strict as most places. Originally we did not have benefits, but eventually we got some which were nice. I appreciated that.

Pay is low and raises are rare. Any sort of benefit we receive means no raise for like two years. As inflation is outpacing pay, coworkers are looking for opportunities elsewhere. Moral is pretty low because of this. There is NO opportunity for career growth in this company. Due to OCR (marketed as AI) takes a chunk of the workload now, we are expected to process things that are harder to discern in the same amount of time. So now we have been running into constant teetering of quality and through rate issues. Extra projects we are put on have little or unclear documentation, or there are some odd exceptions not stated anywhere. The constant checking and going back and forth on projects as we run out of work means processing has slowed down, and harder to get back to optimal speed and mentally taxing, but still expected to have the same output. It is a good entry level job, but expect to move on if you want more pay or to advance your career.

1. Independent working 2. Remote 3. As long as work gets done there is usally no issues.

1. Less career growth 2. Limited scope of work

A growing and exciting company in the healthcare, AI, and automation space. Working at SDS provides you with opportunity to make real impact to the business. They encourage growth and a good work life balance. Great workplace culture and people.

Occasionally experience short term growing pains.