Pros
Spectrum Health is a great place to be if you're very early in your career, located in Grand Rapids, and in a technical role. The people are great, the position will look nice on a resume, and you will learn a lot in your first couple of years here. Work-life balance is reliable, and the work you do has a chance to impact people in a positive way. There's a lot of potential for moving into different roles through various departments once you get your foot in the door. The leadership team is also very big on diversity, equity, and inclusion. For the past couple of years the company holds a system-wide Juneteenth event where discussions about race and white privilege occur. As a white person, I won't speak to how effective these events have been at tacking systemic racism throughout the organization, but they're at least trying.
Cons
The pay and benefits in healthcare are way lower than other industries for the work that you'd be doing. While the health insurance is pretty good, the PTO is lousy for a technical role (15 days and 7 paid holidays a year), raises are not indexed to inflation (you're getting 2-3% at most no matter what), sizable bonuses are only given to select positions (which has caused tension at recent system-wide town halls), and traditional promotions do not exist at Spectrum (HR policy). Whether you advance up the career ladder is based on luck and a desire to change role rather than performing well at your current job. Be prepared to leave in 1-3 years to be compensated fairly for any new experience/skills you gain if you want to keep doing the same work. For most departments, hybrid style work will be the norm in the next few months, despite many successfully working remotely full-time for the past 18+ months. This means that you'll have to relocate (if you're not already in west Michigan) to take any sort of job offer. The COL of Grand Rapids is skyrocketing, which makes the mediocre pay even harder to swallow.