athenahealth Reviews

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Although the company has a lot of reorg for the better it can be a little confusing at times but leadership is as transparent as possible

Cons

The company can start subsidizing for food costs and add a gym.

Cons

- Shifting between teams causes 'reset' of progress towards promotion
- Attempt to hire "best knowledge fit" for position causing company to neglect culture fit of candidate
- Large slip in the 'Work Hard, Play Hard' mentality over the past 2 years
- Its starting to feel more like 'just a job' to a lot of folks, as opposed to a career that you are excited to go to each day (too corporate as of late)

Cons

young, lacks strong leadership and business goals

Cons

Not a lot. A few areas of company pay needs to increase. Benefits cost is high, would expect it to be better based on the company mission/focus.

Cons

I was employed with the company for almost 4 years. The great thing about the company at the start of my employment was the culture, people were there and it felt like a family atmosphere.
Over the course of time reorganizations became exhausting and there was no sense of direction. No one knew what lies ahead beyond a 6 month time frame which was not okay for those of us who value and loved what we did. Management styles changes. Diversity began to lack. You won't find many minority's in higher positions beyond senior account managers. New departments were developed way too fast with a horrible sense of direction. Everyone was focused on self and not the benefit of the team. Certain departments were not legally following company policies and only enforced rules when they seemed to be beneficial to the management team or if they were not being called out by their HRBP. if you are of a different stature or color in some departments don't even think about advancing. This place has done a huge turn around ( not in a good way). Most of the employees aren't familiar with healthcare. Pay is decent but definitely could be better if the higher-ups ( corporate) spent more time focusing on allowing people to perfect their craft and they invested time in developing people instead of beer pong, drinking games and spending ridiculously insane amounts of money on pointless things. Hiring of management staff who had no idea about the roles of their employees but were given titles that made them feel superior, everyone show be aware of their departments role and athena software.

Cons

Parental culture.
Annual review and 10x10 process is ineffective.
Senior managers operating on the whims of the CEO (although this is likely to change).
Mediocre health care benefits.
Lack of diversity.

Cons

Keep focus on projects until completion and allow more time for results before trying something new.

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compensation, lack of a access to resources

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Industry knowledge is lacking across a large number of people brought in recently due to high growth to fix healthcare, who largely know nothing about it. This results in a lot of embarrassing moments of people being shoved into situations they are not prepared for.

Ranking and promotion system is archaic at best and causes more political maneuvering/infighting than benefit. Force ranking your employees against their direct peers is not a good practice. Try ranking the outcome of teams against goals and competitors as a whole and you will produce better results. Couple this with the fact above that people are often competing on little knowledge or results turns it even more to something correlated to politics.

Racial diversity is lacking as other posts point out. You don't need specific examples of this from people either, look at your numbers related to race as a percentage of your company and promotion/leadership, it speaks for itself. All of the attention was given to gender diversity instead.

Lack of mature/experienced leadership in many areas leads to poor foresight and vision. You had many people come up through the company who are not fit to be leaders at various levels from top down in a 5b market cap business. This is exacerbated by the fact that the promotion path depends on people management, with the recent exception being R&D, so in order to promote people there are people managers with one report. Try valuing individual contributors as an important career path.

CEO is amusing at meetings but seems to lack the discipline to understand how to properly run a business. It seems athena agrees with the recent creation of a president position to help in this area. Investor pressure has largely forced them to start paying attention to the valuation and financial future.

What is with the MBA obsession, why not pay for advance tech or healthcare related degrees. Industry knowledge would get you a lot more for you money at this point.