Plenty of nice people, but low engineering standards and concerning new leadership - Senior Applications Engineer Medidata Solutions Employee Review

3.0
27 Apr 2020
Recommend
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Pros

- Most of the people I knew there are pleasant to work with - On many teams, it's possible to have a good work-life balance

Cons

- The company doesn't do DevOps and most teams are lucky to deploy once a month. This painfully slow cadence means each release is extremely high stakes, leading to a lot of stress and tension; it also means critical fixes and performance improvements languish for weeks or months, or until their absence prompts an emergency serious enough to bypass the normal change process - Engineering is not empowered to make decisions; this varies somewhat from team to team, but by-and-large engineering teams are expected to be order-taking -- tech debt is generally not taken seriously, which leads to fragile and unmaintainable systems, prompting embarrassing performance and stability problems. Instead of prompting self-reflection from Product leadership, this usually triggers a blame game which rolls down to engineering - New management pushed out all the good middle and some senior managers who helped build Medidata's positive culture; the new leadership is secretive and remote, and credible rumors of outsourcing abound

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Medidata Solutions Response
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Thank you for your feedback. I’m glad that the passion behind our mission to power smarter treatments and healthier people resonated with you. As a mission-driven company, it means a lot to hear that the mission was present in your day-to-day work. It sounds like there were some aspects of your experience that could have been better. Career development is important to us, so we offer a variety of live in-person and virtual on-demand resources and training opportunities for employees and people leaders. Employees are encouraged to create goals for growth and development and have multiple formal check-ins over the course of the year with their manager. We also advise all managers to have regular one-on-one meetings with their team members to stay aligned on project work deliverables. Our commitment to our clients and partners is to deliver a platform that accelerates clinical development. We use a variety of technologies and processes to do that. We are always open to ways to improve what we create and how we build it.

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