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API Healthcare

Acquired by GE HealthCare

Is this your company?

they are kidding themselves - Developer API Healthcare Employee Review

1.0
Dec 15, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

you get to say you work at "GE" because you do on paper (but you dont get to work on any cool ge stuff. you just inherit all their processes and corporate BS) good place to work if just interested in collecting a consistent mediocre paycheck after working here you can leave one day and sit around at lunch with family, friends, or new coworkers and laugh and point at / feel sorry for everyone still working at api healthcare and losing at life

Cons

developers and qa are in denial about how good the tech industry is outside of their bubble because it threatens their comfort zone architects dont have any unique skills transferrable to modern software companies because api Healthcare does not innovate upper mgmt asks employees to stop writing glassdoor reviews and says 'trust your mgr and give them feedback directly. trust us. trust us.' but they are forgetting their own accountability training: experiences have led to the belief in the truth that mgrs look after themselves first. problems with the team are assumed to be developer's problem instead of mgmt hack days are really just ways to get devs to do stuff on the product roadmap, not innovate in denial about the fact that they don't really do agile anymore terrible office- an entire floor of a large building filled with male engineers all sharing two toilets. so much pee on feet always. desperately needs subject matter experts, but experts only willing to do contract work because they can smell the stink that is api healthcare from a mile away and take comfort in the fact that their time there is temporary while getting paid alot QA department is not engineers by any standard and thrive off meetings and talking fancy devs and qa are in denial about how HORRIBLY under market they are being paid app quality sucks mobile app quality sucks even harder teams never heard of any JS library besides jQuery, ExtJS, or angular. that is their idea of modern- and even then no one really knows what they are doing with any of those. wat? toxic interpersonal problems hr violations up the wazoo every day

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5.0
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Pros

Affordable benefits and compensation comparable to other companies same size

Cons

Inexperienced management holding company back

5.0
Apr 22, 2013
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

API is a fast growing company in a promising market. What started out many years ago as a small, close-knit community business is rapidly growing into a large software company. For employees that remember the good old days, this is probably disconcerting. For those that are newer, it's just a great chance to catch a company on the upswing. Senior leadership is definitely committed to increasing sales - that's how a company grows. But they are also refreshingly open to change and suggestions on how to do better. The CEO is open and accessible, as is the rest of the leadership team. The company has invested heavily in agile development (scrum), and is very committed to making it successful. There are the firefighting challenges that all software companies deal with, but when the fires are put out, the process and expectations seem quite reasonable. Overall, it's a good small-ish company that is learning how to be a good big-ish company. There aren't a lot of politics to deal with, not a lot of red tape, and leadership seems open to change. That's not a bad place to work in my book.

Cons

The company commitment to customer satisfaction makes it seem like saying 'no' isn't in our vocabulary.

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