I was very impressed with Health Catalyst when I first heard about them and eventually became hired here. I will say as time continues to pass I am becoming less and less impressed and the benefits and the perks are eventually not going to be enough to keep people.
• While I know the company is working on career paths for individuals, it does appear that it really is all about who you know and not what you know to advance with the company. There is a lot of value placed on the work you have done solely for Health Catalyst and who you have had the opportunity to work with versus years of experience and knowledge. I recently interviewed for a different position and I did not advance to the next round of interviews. I was told I needed to introduce myself more to others in the company and get my name out there. This can be hard to do remotely and when you are an introvert and when you are limited in the work you are working on by your manager. Everyone does not have the type of personality that can just go up and start talking to people and try to get them to like you. Everyone’s personality is different and that should be respected and we should not be forced to be someone we are not to advance.
• Some employees are placed in better positions and given more opportunities to meet others across the company and to be a part of work more visible to others. I have even stated the type of work I would like to do with my manager and their manager and I have seen others in my group who I have not heard express this get those opportunities.
• The people I had interviewed with for the internal posting I had not worked with in the past. Those who advanced had worked with them for at least a year; therefore they already had a relationship with them and knew them better than they knew me which I felt was a disadvantage for me interviewing for the position. The interview was solely around the work I had done with Health Catalyst and nothing about the many years of experience I had in the field. Again, it is about who you know or the fraction of the time you have been at Health Catalyst and not about prior work. There are a lot of young people with the company who do not have as much experience, but there are some of us who have a lot more experience than the amount of things done at Health Catalyst. That experience can be leveraged and help Health Catalyst, but it does not seem to matter when trying to advance.
• I have also seen that those that are moving up in the ranks are people who started with the company earlier on and it seems do not have as much experience, but they were in the right place at the right time. Someone like me with years of experience in the industry can be over looked because I have not shaken enough hands here. This can be very discouraging to want to continue working here.
• There are some positions that managers of those positions force to only be done in Salt Lake City which is hard for a remote employee to feel they can truly work in different areas and advance with the company when the list of opportunities has already been condensed.
• Lack of Diversity
