Health Catalyst Reviews

Pros

Amazing compensation and benefits...but they pale in comparison to the chance to work hard with smart, humble people who want to transform healthcare. This company is serious about erring in favor of the team member...and it shows by the low turnover and high engagement.

Advice to Management

Keep the focus on the people and success will continue to follow. It has proven itself already and will certainly continue.

Pros

Truly unlimited PTO and 3-month parental leave
Transparency from the management team
Great compensation with visibility into decision-making criteria (how to become more valuable)
Company actually trusts team members to do the right thing

Advice to Management

Continue to reinforce Health Catalyst's operating principles

Pros

This company is positioned to do great things for the healthcare industry. The mission is real and the company leadership seems committed to fulfilling that mission. There are among the best colleagues I have ever worked with at all levels in the organization.

Advice to Management

Keep investing in fundamentals - good people and good technology.

Pros

Excellent benefits for and integration efforts aimed at remote employees. It's a mission-driven company that cares about its clients and its employees. Leadership is very transparent. Salary and benefits are very competitive. I don't think I could find a better company to work for.

Advice to Management

Some of the Analytics Accelerator apps could be simplified. If the intended user is an analyst, they are great. If the intended user is someone without a strong skill set in data analysis, some of these apps are seen as too busy or overwhelming because there is too much in them (both in terms of charts and tables and in number of fields and ways of slicing and dicing). These apps could be simplified and more focused to guide towards outcomes measurement and improvement and not analysis paralysis.

Pros

Great place to work. We do meaningful work and the corporate culture is positive and professional. I believe I am paid fairly and really appreciate my direct manager. I've worked here for almost 4 years and hope to continue for many more years.

Advice to Management

I think a yearly team building day of going through what is going well, challenges, and ideas would be helpful and strengthen our team.

Pros

I love working from home and I also like traveling. The work is challenging and I feel like we are making an impact in the healthcare industry. I feel very valued as an employee without exception.

Advice to Management

Be careful not to overdo it when it comes to the "female team member experience." I believe in giving men and women equal opportunity but there is a real risk of taking it too far if your expectation is that there will be equal outcomes. As a female employee myself, I like to think that my salary, position, etc, are a result of my hard work and my advocacy for myself - NOT because of efforts made on my behalf to enable females to succeed. I also don't want the slightest appearance that I am getting special treatment because of my gender. I think there are certain changes being made that are great - such as not taking salary history into account when people are first hired. That will definitely help women who have experienced unfair treatment in the past, but it's not necessarily going to level the field automatically. Women will still have to take ownership of their own career and I think that is the most important thing.

Pros

I have been with Health Catalyst for almost 2 months and it truly is the most amazing company I have worked for in my 20+ year career. They encourage every single employee to feel that they are an equal owner in the company. The interview process can take a while, but they really take their time hiring the right people from a culture standpoint. The qualities they look for are smart, hard-working and humble. Compensation and bonus program is generous. The benefits are unmatched, my opinions and I ideas are always received and responded to, and I have yet to come across a fellow employee who is anything but kind and respectful. They truly believe family is #1 and encourage everyone to have that balance. It's not just something they put on their website. I really feel I hit the jackpot. This really is the most amazing company I have ever worked for.

Advice to Management

Keep doing what you are doing and how you value all your employees. Don't lose touch of that as we grow from 700 to 8,000 employees :)

Pros

People - I'm amazed at the quality of coworkers I have. My team has a wide variety of perspectives and backgrounds but we enjoy working and playing together.

Manager - I've had two managers in my life that I really admire and enjoyed working with. I'm currently working with the second of those two individuals. Makes it great to come to work to know my manager is smart, hardworking, trusts me and encourages a good work/life balance.

Company - develops products and services that make a DIFFERENCE. I enjoy talking to anyone who will listen about how HealthCatalyst helps to save lives and improve healthcare.

Culture - Management leads by example, encourages constant improvement in our workflact and promotes focus on client outcomes. I get the feeling that upper- and mid-management really care about the employees here.

Advice to Management

Keep hiring awesome people! However you are finding them, I've been impressed by all hires and interns. Sometimes I wonder how I made the cut and got hired. I feel pretty lucky! I see myself staying at Health Catalyst for as long as you'll have me.

I'd love to see efforts to try and cross-train or encourage teams to reach out to others that they don't normally communicate with. Maybe some activities when people from different teams are tasked to work together for an hour or two?

Pros

Everyone is friendly, smart, and hard working. Sometimes people can be transparent to what in other companies might normally be considered a fault. I haven't met anyone yet who I've questioned "Why was this person hired?". Smart, hard work is appreciated over "doing the hours", and providing something concrete and useful is appreciated over providing your weekly TPS reports. Speaking of which, if something is useless, it gets cut very quickly. I've never seen an organization that self evaluates and trims things as effectively as my current team.

Advice to Management

Focus a bit more on customer experience for a while, over getting the new shiny thing. We all want the new shiny thing, but if it's integrated into something that crashes every 15 minutes, nobody wants the thing that the shiny new thing is attached to.

Pros

Having had the opportunity to work for an array of different companies in this space, there is much about Catalyst which is head and shoulders above the majority of companies out there. The mission and how this mission is the basis for all goal setting established under it is always consistent. Wonderful! Quality of people, transparency, communication, desire to continuously improve are all evident in most of my daily interactions. Of course we are all human and there are variations on this theme here and there, but my overall experience has been wonderful and trusting.

Advice to Management

stay the course, be wise not to assume those with considerable time in rank might actually require more of a regular sharpening of the sword in terms of operating principles. There have been a few instances where attitude from that immediate 2nd level from the top and also at the VP level has been inconsistent with what is regularly shared by the majority of the organization. It is not pervasive but it to allow this could become problematic. Overall, in comparison to my other experiences, this is far less of an issue.