Pros
-Pay was good -High levels of responsibility/trust to work with senior folks at the hospital organization -Mission of helping patients and clinicians improve outcomes was actually palpable in most development/company goals -Coworkers really are great -Great healthcare
Cons
-Consensus from tenured Application Managers was that everyone was struggling and overworked; hours are more often insane than not (70-80 hours/week), and you're told by team leads to just 'ask for help' but the workload or organizational need is often customer-specific, and no one else on the app team actually has bandwidth or knowledge to actually take anything off your plate. -Revolving door of application coordinators, so as an application manager you have to train and retrain new hires who are getting thrown onto the project with no application/customer knowledge or project management skills. -Especially post-COVID, truly embarrassing approach to work-from-home with an artificial rationale of 'company culture' particularly for a role that pretty much sits on video calls for 9+ hours a day when in office while trying to answer emails in any given 5 minute break between calls -Culture around recovery time is wild--you may work 12 hour shifts on Saturday and Sunday for a go-live (whether volunteer or for your own project), then get 1 day off as 'recovery' -No real growth path for strong application managers other than taking on more internal roles that you don't have time for