L7 Informatics, Inc Reviews

Culture and Poor Leadership: It was a culture of grinding with poor work life balance. If you don't use your paid time off, you lose it, and it won't get paid out after you leave. But many people have large balances of PTO because they are overworked. Management has trouble saying 'no' to customers on projects with constantly changing requirements, so many projects would run on and on, placing ever increasing pressure on implementation teams. Continued to add VPs and other executives to the executive leadership team, yet failed to bring in (enough) new business and/or reduce the cost of doing business, so now going through multiple rounds of layoffs, getting rid of the people responsible for doing the actual work. Executive leadership also would make decisions that impacted several projects / initiatives without soliciting the input from the experts responsible for doing the implementation, which IMO had negative consequences on the overall results. Not a lot of transparency on the direction of the company from management. Also, fairly siloed in that trying to roll out new processes across the customer ops team was incredibly difficult with mixed results. Not all appropriate stakeholders are included in such decisions. After I was laid off, as previously mentioned, I didn't get any unused time off paid out. Was only offered two weeks severance and given a document that had links to a few job boards and the contact information of some recruiters. No 401K match.

The biggest downside to L7 is that very few people here know the commercial scientific informatics market. Or the enterprise software market. At all. This is different from knowing science (there were some admirable scientists here). My boss was the biggest wimp ever, so our work area had no assertive representation into "management" such as it was. He was terrified of his boss. Also, the company has a strange cult of personality around the CEO (especially strange since his industry name recognition was limited). No other company in our field promotes itself this way. Outside of a couple bright spots, I observed little transparency or integrity here. I could not get a straight answer to the simplest questions, even when I was just starting.