Best company for a reason - Technical Director Health Catalyst Employee Review

5.0
Oct 5, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

I have worked at a variety of companies throughout my career and I can firmly say that Health Catalyst is the best company I have ever worked for. Catalyst treats it's employees with incredible respect. As an employee, you feel as if you are valuable to the company, not just another employee there to help top management succeed. They are extremely open in their communication with employees in almost all company decisions. One of the greatest attributes that Catalyst has is their trust in their employees. I have been at companies where there is so much micro-managing and a tight grip on their employees that moral and turnover is through the roof. As an employee here you do as much as you can because you truly want the company to succeed as where in some companies, you do as much as you can so you won't get fired.

Cons

No cons that I can think of

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Health Catalyst Response
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Thank you for your thoughts and advice. Please know that we as a leadership company talk and think about this issue of sustaining and strengthening our culture often, and that I personally feel like this is a major (if not the major) plank in my platform as the Chief People Officer. I think about (and work on) how we can do this every day. The bigger we get, the greater and more complex the challenge becomes from a messaging/communication/ internalization standpoint, but it is a challenge worth tackling everyday. A company where all team members contribute because they truly want the company to succeed (to use your words), is a company that will see great, great success over a long period of time. We plan to be helping to improve outcomes for our partner organizations for decades to come, and to do that we need to maintain the aspects of our business that "cannot change". Thank you so much for your contributions to this important effort!

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