Love it - Anonymous employee Health Catalyst Employee Review
5.0
21 Sept 2020
Anonymous employee
Current employee, more than 5 years
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook
Pros
super transparent, great execs, wouldn't leave if offered more money
Cons
high-growth leads to LOTS of changes, and while that's normal, sometimes it's hard to keep up
LT is great, middle-management can do better
work on diversity
Health Catalyst Response
5y
Thank you for your feedback and for your 5-7 years of contributions to our company's success! I am grateful for your commitment and loyalty to the company. I also agree that our high growth necessitates many changes as we scale, and this can be challenging. We also will continue to focus on enabling every team member to have an effective, world-class servant-leader as a manager, and we continue to be deeply committed to enabling our company to tap into an incredibly diverse talent pool, and then to benefitting long-term from that diversity. Thank you again for your many years of contribution to the company's mission and success! Best, Dan
Thank you for taking the time to share this feedback. We’re happy to hear you’re experiencing a healthy work-life balance.
We hear your concern about benefits. These are critical areas, and we continue to review our compensation and benefits strategies to ensure competitiveness. We are committed to being data-informed in these decisions, and your input helps us do so.
Thank you for your continued commitment during this transformational time.
Great Talent & Culture:
The people here are highly capable, collaborative, and committed to helping each other succeed. The partnership between onshore and offshore teams works well and is a real strength. There’s a culture of grit and stability that has helped the company navigate multiple major transitions over the years.
Mission-Critical Engineering:
The work involves complex data infrastructure that requires deep technical expertise. It can be demanding, but seeing these systems run successfully and support real-world operations is consistently rewarding.
Cons
Wage Compression and Retention Risk:
Compensation for tenured and high-performing staff has not kept pace with the market for specialized data engineering and support leadership. In practice, tenure can feel undervalued or even penalized. This creates risk around losing institutional knowledge and operational continuity.
Stagnant Career Progression:
Contrary to stated expectations, strong performance ratings do not consistently translate into meaningful, market-aligned compensation growth. The process of how compensation is benchmarked lacks clarity in practice, obscuring how compensation decisions are made and what is required to advance.