Cerner Reviews

Former Employee – worked at Cerner full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – As long as you are ambitious, committed, and have one of the good managers Cerner is a good place to work. It's not a place for anyone who just wants a 'job' . You have to care.

Cons – Sometimes there are log hours, but what company doesn't have long hours these days.

Advice to Senior Management – Continue trying to make things better.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Cerner full-time for less than a year

Pros – 1) Cerner is definitely dedicated to the improvement of health care systems, which makes any job related to IP dev rewarding.
2) Training is heavily invested in. New associates aren't expected to know every single detail when brought on.
3) Cerner has an approach of hiring as much talent as they can, as opposed to squeezing every last bit out of existing employees. While projects can become a bit overwhelming, new hires and consultants are being brought on every week to help.
4) They really do invest a ton of time in testing code, which is nice because if you make a mistake, it will almost always get caught before going to production.

Cons – 1) Parking for new hires is pretty bad.
2) Management can be unorganized, with sudden changes happening to projects quite frequently.

Advice to Senior Management – Focus more on rewarding employees who deliver as opposed to those who have been with the company for years.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Cerner full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Great work experience; highly intelligent associates; sr. leadership is visionary; the applications we build affect me, my family, and friends; leadership has invested time and energy into my career growth; great benefits (I walk downstairs to go to the clinic & pharmacy).

Cons – Cerner is growing very fast and we are experiencing physical growing pains with parking and seating challenges. But that's a good problem to have!

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Cerner full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – Tons to learn, great people, great benefits. Love it!

Cons – Salary is not too good. People may quite due to other offers. Everyone needs Cerner knowldege

Advice to Senior Management – Increase parking

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Cerner full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Short training for the needs of the company at the time.
Do what you are told do not think or speak other than what you are told to, you will do ok
As long as you are 30 or younger you will do ok

Cons – Never learn from the past
Will make the same plans ( if they worked or not) again in a 3 to 5 year time span
When looking at some one to hire will look at age first
I could go on but that should be enough to make you think again

Advice to Senior Management – Nothing would help. they would and will not learn

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Cerner full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Really enjoyed the people I worked with.
There are interesting problems to solve.
Company is doing really well and 401k and stock purchase plan is good.

Cons – Never felt like much was accomplished.
Not much energy was spent on design, just worried about getting stuff out the door.
Didn't seem to matter if I worked really hard or hardly worked.

Advice to Senior Management – A solution cannot be everything to everybody.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Cerner full-time for more than a year

Pros – 1) Kansas city is a cheap place to live. Cerner pays competitive salary compared to other technology companies located in Kansas City.
2) Good place for new grads to start career but not for experienced professional.

Cons – 1) Experienced teammates will be mediocre. The only reason they are your seniors is because they have worked there for X amount of years.
2) Promised projects never get executed not even when specifically mentioned while signing the offer. You`ll be put on a project you have no clue about.
2) Lack of smart people makes work boring. You dont learn anything related to coding. There is too much stress given on knowing to use Cerner applications than actually implementing programming concepts. Unles you want to work in hospitals as a Cerner product consultant Cerner product knowledge is useless.
3) CCL is only used in Cerner. It becomes tough to apply for your next job. Dont spend too much time time coding in CCL.

Advice to Senior Management – Give preference to employees who are smart rather than employees who have worked in the company for longer.

Current Employee – been working at Cerner full-time for more than a year

Pros – In general, things are organized.
Good team setup
Decent salary

Cons – Mostly located in Kansas City. KC's only pro is that it's cheap. Nothing to do here and lacks international presence. Most people who work here tend to come from the mid-west.
Lack of testing. This is not a surprise. Very few companies are serious about testing. Funny thing, they know there are quality issues but refuse to implement a serious testing department. One of their company codes is to code flawlessly! Not possible.
Too up tight about working from home.

Advice to Senior Management – They're aware a lot of people leave after a few years. They are aggressive about hiring college grads. What can do you do to keep employees? Also, become serious about testing.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Cerner full-time

Pros – Tons of room to move within the company

Cons – My jobs doesn't take long hours but others work very hard and long long hours

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Cerner full-time for more than a year

Pros – There really aren't any great reasons to work here. The turnover is very high because people aren't happy here. Its usually a means to an end until you quit or move to third party with six figures.

Cons – Too young of managers with no experience and can't manage well. Its more of a young company where people fall into cliques and can discriminate in a sense that they will promote their own friends and not base it off of skill set. I travel 85% of the time working close to 70+ hours a week and have a hard time taking off a day when sick. I was not paid my per diem for a week because my expense report didn't balance because of a $1,98 water that was bought. Overall, it is not a professional company and they don't know how to keep moral high. They always say you own your own track here at Cerner, but that's far from the truth. I would highly recommend considering Epic where they pay 15%+ more for the same jobs.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company