Great Culture, Exciting Business, Amazing Benefits - Anonymous employee Health Catalyst Employee Review

5.0
26 Mar 2015
Anonymous employee
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Pros

I'm surrounded by smart people every day that are not only brilliant, but a pleasure to work with. I don't feel micro managed and feel empowered to accomplish my responsibilities. I feel that Health Catalyst's hiring principle of hiring smart, humble, and hard working team members has been a great success. I love the transparency of Health Catalyst. Our benefits are amazing and I never feel bad asking for time off.

Cons

Because of the rapid growth you need to be flexible and able to adapt to the changes that continue to happen with a growing company.

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Health Catalyst Response
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Thank you for your comments, we agree that rapid growth will require great flexibility and healthy introspection as we discover that methods, processes, and ideas that worked well maybe even 6-12 months ago, need to be modified or even discarded for new ideas. This can be daunting, and a little scary. Thanks again!

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