Good Early On - Director Health Catalyst Employee Review

3.0
19 May 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Leadership is employee focused - Consistently hire great people. - The mission of the company is motivating - Fantastic work/life balance - Job growth early on

Cons

- Day to day work experience is lacking. - Decisions on product strategy and product direction are continually in a state of flux. It's not worth trying to follow. - DOS. If you know you know. - DOS is often the required development tool even though Health Catalyst has yet to figure out how to develop/support/release products at scale using it. - Lack of access to industry standard data engineering technologies limits professional growth and handcuffs innovation. - At the time I left compensation(salary) was lagging more than the company wanted to admit. RSUs have the potential to close the gap but have an unpredictable value over a four year vesting schedule.

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Health Catalyst Response
3y
Thank you for your review and feedback, and for the 5 years you spent at Health Catalyst. I hope your current job and company are working out well for you. We are definitely focused on continuous improvement in all aspects of our company, including scaling our execution capabilities, and scaling our technology capabilities. Our #1 R&D priority in 2022 is investing in greater multi-tenant capabilities in DOS, and deeper central data processing capabilities as well. Our #1 operational priority is consistency of project management and delivery, across all of our hundreds of clients. We are not perfect, and sometimes our strengths around delighting customers can become a weakness in not standardizing our work or our projects as much so that they become more and more repeatable and scalable. This is always a balancing act for every company. We're grateful to see evidence of meaningful progress, including multiple solutions rated with industry-leading customer satisfaction, and an increasing percentage of our customer base setting goals and realizing measurable improvement than ever before. 2022 is on pace to be the company's most successful year by far in terms of enabling massive, measurable improvement among our clients. But there is still much more work to do, no question. We, like every company, must continuously improve in order to "earn the right" to keep moving forward as a company, as we've discussed many, many times in our all team member meetings. We'll always strive for excellence, every day, with every client, with every solution, with every department, and we'll never be finished! And, I'm happy to share that we've made major positive strides regarding base salary increases, as has been referenced in a number of more recent reviews, and in a few of my other responses as well. We'll keep focusing on base salary increases in 2023 and beyond. Once again, I wish you the best with your career.

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Pros

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Cons

As of 2025, all benefits have been suspended until the end of the year.

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Health Catalyst Response
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Thank you for sharing your perspective. We appreciate your recognition of the strengths the company had before this year and the dedication of team members during challenging times. As we shape our 2026 strategy, we’re carefully evaluating how we allocate resources to ensure organizational success, identifying where to invest and how to utilize those resources most effectively, all guided by a clear and focused plan. Your feedback is helpful, and we will continue to communicate updates as progress is made. -Ben Albert
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Pros

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.

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