Healthfirst (New York) Employee Reviews about "upper management"
Updated 14 Aug 2019
"Work from home a few days a week" (in 42 reviews)
"Employee appreciation and good benefits" (in 24 reviews)
"Unless you’re upper management making" (in 17 reviews)
"A lot of turnover within employees, silos within divisions, heavy meeting culture, work life balance does not exist" (in 16 reviews)
Reviews about "upper management"
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"Great job if you are strong enough to handle it"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Healthfirst (New York) full-time for more than 8 years
Pros
Good life work balance Company actually cares about employees Great benefits Quarterly incentive Great schedules Holidays off Overtime available Ability to move within the company
Cons
One gets the feeling that upper management would be a lot more forgiving than middle management. Many changes that do not have advanced notice. Needs to have more in depth training.
Advice to Management
Watch what middle management does. Often instructions are not clear or contradictory.
Healthfirst (New York)2017-05-09 - Helpful (2)
"This has become an “ehh” company!"
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I have been working at Healthfirst (New York) full-time for more than 5 years
Pros
None that I can currently think of.
Cons
Over the years, HF has become a blah company. Nothing exciting you’d wanna wake to go to anymore. Unless you’re upper management making upper management money.
Healthfirst (New York)2019-08-14 - Helpful (2)
"A chaotic place"
StarStarStarStarStarDoesn't RecommendNeutral OutlookNo opinion of CEOI worked at Healthfirst (New York) full-time for more than a year
Pros
Some people are good coworkers.
Cons
A culture that resists to change; some teams and leaders are completely incompetent; A lot of politics among upper management; huge inefficiencies and wasted efforts on things that generate little value.
Healthfirst (New York)2019-08-09 - Helpful (4)
"Company is loosing members left and right and moving operations to Lake Mary in FL"
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Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookDisapproves of CEOI have been working at Healthfirst (New York) full-time for more than 5 years
Pros
Just location in downtown NYC
Cons
Very low starting salary. Most upper management are inexperienced, incompetent and they play dirty politics. The are laying off most of their employees in NY because they want to cut costs and ship the jobs to Lake Mary, FL. Very Toxic environment
Advice to Management
Just be honest and respectful to your employees. No vision or morale
Healthfirst (New York)2019-07-22 - Helpful (6)
"not worth it"
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Doesn't RecommendNeutral OutlookApproves of CEOI worked at Healthfirst (New York) full-time
Pros
Some coworkers are very intelligent, will learn a lot from select few
Cons
- very gossipy, upper management is very political, very hard to get actual work done, highly toxic environment, a lot of turnover, extreme favoritism, little collaboration with other teams, when you suggest a change you are met with a very defensive management
Healthfirst (New York)2019-02-22 - Helpful (5)
"DISSATISFIED!!"
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Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookNo opinion of CEOI have been working at Healthfirst (New York) full-time for more than 3 years
Pros
Only pro is that you get to work from home. That is very convenient to not have to commute. That’s their selling point.
Cons
They do not care about their employees. NO ROOM FOR GROWTH! Will not allow you to leave your department or be promoted to a better department. Upper management will blackball you from being approved to transfer. Recruitment is horrible! Its all about favoritism. Supervisor favor the employees that speak their language. Esp the spanish ones. Upper management gives you tasks they cant even do themselves and expect... employees to use systems with major glitches that they don’t even know how to use. And lastly, God forbid you need to use the bathroom. You will return to tons of emails telling you to return to work.
Show MoreAdvice to Management
Allow employees to grow! Stop the favoritism!
Healthfirst (New York)2017-11-14 - Helpful (5)
"Medical Managment"
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Doesn't RecommendPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI worked at Healthfirst (New York) full-time for more than 3 years
Pros
Growing company; the CEO has managed the healthcare financial climate well.
Cons
Very hierarchical; upper management controls everything, very paranoid environment about who knows what, who is included in meetings, emails, etc. Executive staff are well compensated but lower management not so much. A lot of pressure on lower level personnel to follow directions; a lot of micromanagement and heavy emphasis on performance analysis of lower level staff. As a result, a high turnover of employees at... all levels. Operational strategy and directions change constantly. They offer remote employment but the unspoken expectation is that employees do a lot for that privilege (salaried/non-hourly workers aren't compensated appropriately for excessive overtime. Constant availability expected). The expectation is for very high volume work. I left for a better opportunity.
Show MoreHealthfirst (New York)2017-07-12 - Helpful (4)
"Manager Clinical Eligibility"
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Doesn't RecommendDisapproves of CEOI worked at Healthfirst (New York) full-time
Pros
Great colleagues and good teamwork.
Cons
Upper management is inefficient. Too much stress on productivity, metrics and data. Utterly inefficient information system to gather useful data and information. Micromanagement and overly controlling upper management who care a hoot for their direct reports. Less said about the HR management is better. The consultants try to manipulate the clinical staff to get the desired data to reach the STAR goals......pathetic. Very very stressful place to work. Don't recommend it anyone. And no room to grow due to favoritism.
Show MoreAdvice to Management
Look at all the advises above and learn from it.
Healthfirst (New York)2017-07-10 - Helpful (18)
"Toxic mess"
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Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookDisapproves of CEOI have been working at Healthfirst (New York) full-time
Pros
Coworkers, office neighborhood, the company's mission
Cons
You have an out-of-touch CEO who's more interested in making long-winded internal videos in which she condescends to us like we're children. You have executives who know less than their direct reports, and who lie to their managers about what they know. One executive spends most of his time on Skype talking to friends and relatives. Another who watches YouTube videos all day long. Another who puts together... PowerPoints that no one asks for, on topics that aren't important. You have egotistical maniacs at the middle and upper management level, who are allowed to give their input on processes about which they know nothing. There's so much jockeying for power. So much. And in between jockeying for power and playing these games, some of these folks forget they have an actual job to do. You have poor processes all around. You have a lack of investment in real infrastructure and technology that would help the company grow. Just look at the reviews on Yelp. The foray into the commercial market was a disaster thanks to the lack of systems to support that kind of growth. They do not value, nor understand, technology, and they're going to get clobbered in the marketplace because of it. You have favoritism galore. One person is so highly favored that she's been promoted multiple times over just a few years, all while being detested by her colleagues for her nastiness, being terrible at her actual job, and having no identifiable skills. But, she's gone out for drinks with her bosses and cozied up to people who mattered, so they protect her despite multiple complaints. You have a completely unethical review process. You're reviewed by your colleagues, your boss, and any direct reports you have. Fair, right? Well, it would be, except that everything those people say about you is then reviewed in a room with 20+ OTHER PEOPLE WHO DO NOT KNOW YOU OR YOUR JOB. Those people are allowed to weigh in on whether you need improvement, meet expectations, or exceed expectations. They then use everyone's input to place you somewhere on a *BELL CURVE* (yes, the measurement of human capability that has since been thoroughly debunked). Oh! Also! Those 20+ people who weighed in on your job? They get to see what everyone said about you, but you, yourself, don't. You have a culture that focuses on the wrong things.There is no better example of this than the fact that they spent millions on consultants to come up with a terrible metaphor that they push on every employee: TRAILBLAZER. "Are you being a trailblazer?" "Can you recite the trailblazer culture drivers?" They spent so much money coming up with an internal campaign for employees based on a hiking/mountain metaphor. For city dwellers. Who service other city dwellers. Yet they never spent the money to fix *major* billing and enrollment issues for our customers before entering the commercial market. Also, the NYC office is battling a bed bug problem. There are *smart,* wonderful people here who will never be valued for their contributions, and who will never flourish or grow. They will leave, snatched up by better companies doing better things. Those who stay are often depressed, cynical, and hopeless. To use their own metaphor: don't blaze this trail.
Show MoreAdvice to Management
Value your employees like adults . Take a good look at what you're trying to accomplish, then bring in better people to do it. Invest in technology.
Healthfirst (New York)2017-07-06 - Helpful (7)
"Finance Team"
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Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookNo opinion of CEOI worked at Healthfirst (New York) full-time for more than 3 years
Pros
- Good Salary - The low level staffs are good people - The company was created for a good cause but now it is all about making money instead of providing healthcare coverage to low income and old individuals New York
Cons
- Unprofessional - Finance team is lack of smart individuals - - They feel threaten by smart staffs --- they over-protective of their work - Management is not knowledgeable - Many upper management staffs are sexist and the CEO has no clue - HR is incompetent - Sexual harassment happened and no investigation took place
Advice to Management
- Member hospitals or state needs to investigate - Member and Non member hospitals are clueless with their deals with Healthfirst - Healthfirst does not have their interest when it comes to maximize profit or revenue issue or expense issues
Healthfirst (New York)2017-05-03