Q&A With MultiScale Health Networks Employees

Poor, you are held to a standard, with minimal recordkeeping to keep on track. Arbitrary determinations of travel time for work getting mixed in with vacation time.

Terrible.

Not good. One person with no training or experience in employee development runs the formal feedback process. She constantly cancels and rescheduled meetings. Informal feedback is very random, and sometimes contradictory. Ex: you can be praised for clarifying customer expectations and punished for allowing customer expectations to be solicited, since that creates requirements that need to be met.

Nonexistent. Some weird attempts recently, but very poorly executed. It's better to keep asking about what you are working on

Only those with a very high tolerance for constant turnover of staff and mixed messages about priorities.

There is no prototypical person who is successful. For better or worse, it's more about who you are aligned with, rather than your skills and competencies. If you are hired by the current leadership, you're good as long as you are promoting their agenda.

It's not clear anymore what the criteria are for successful candidates. So many people of different skills have left lately (last month or so) that there's no way to offer meaningful suggestions to candidates.

Present yourself as a consumate team player who is able to get along with people.

Not planning to stay any longer than it takes me to find something else. Since its not a good place to plan for a future, even if you're safe today, that will probably change.

Not too secure. Nature of the business is to keep your options open!

Wildly variable. There are some dev team members who literally work about 20 hrs a week, since they don't have anything to do. Other people are totally scrambling to get all the random ideas shipped with really tight deadlines.

Very variable. There's some "hurry up and wait" stuff that goes on.

No idea. No one seems to stick around very long, so probably not someplace where raises are an issue.

Not too often - I got a small raise every year, but I know not everyone did.

Meh. I like some of the people there and sometimes get to work on interesting products, but overall, it seems like it's too disorganized and really ego driven to feel part of the place for the long term.

Some days good, other days meh. Some of the turnover drama has been hard to accept. Working with the clients is the best part.

Not a problem. One good thing is that there's a group who goes out together all the time -- pretty social people.

Easy to do - the hours are very humane.

Not in terms of what I'm doing, since its not always clear what I'm working on. I do learn from some other the other senior people, but that's just every once and awhile.

Not much - the work is abundant and fast-paced, but not really difficult.

Only one since I've been here. Ok outing.

Fun, just kind of infrequent. Again, with the high turnover, it's hard to establish a lot of team camaraderie. But, they do try!

I was excited to work on products that help people, so if that is still part of the work, I like that.

The work is interesting and important.

How many other people had left and why they left. You don't really hear about that until you are working there.

To work there on a contract - it would have been better for me. There are lots of contractors, so not sure why I didn't!

Not great. Most people are looking at other jobs.

That's a tricky question - there's been a lot of turnover there, pretty much for the past several years. It's hard to say what all the issues are - some folks turn out to not be a great fit, the new leadership wanted to bring in their own people, etc. The CEO is a good guy, so there's that!

None. Only one dev is a woman. Pretty typical tech company in that regard. There's one woman in charge, but she's not great, btw.

Not much - it's mostly white guys. A few women (white). Sort of the typical tech types.

Lots of little offices that are shared. Cool conference room.

It's a former clinic, so lots of individual offices around a central core conference room and server room. A really nice new conference room in the front and some older, not quite as exciting spaces in the back of the offices. Most offices are for at least two people as they're running out of space!

In a hospital building, which is really unique. No perks really.

Unlimited potential for learning. The benefits and perks are pretty standard, to not quite as good as other places (good healthcare coverage is kind of lacking; the only options are with United Healthcare).

Couple hours -- you meet with several people, one by one. They call you the next day.

A couple of hours.

Know your code, but don't talk about Java. They're pretty against Java.

Focus on what is your core strengths, talk about how you learn new things, be enthusiastic about working with a team.

Ok. Quick, easy -- not too hard compared to other tech firms.

Very casual, not too difficult in terms of questions or expectations of really complex information. Feel is important, ie, how do you handle yourself, what kind of enthusiasm do you demonstrate, etc.

Easier than everyone else. They ask you a lot of basic, easy to answer questions

Very easy.

No difficult questions.

The behavioral questions are meant to get a sense of how you'll work well with the team, so talking about your self in isolation would not resonate well. Better to honestly describe your style of collaboration.

Not great, very inconsistent. Lots of start and stop on every activity. Lack of clear direction.

Good team, with lots of enthusiasm for the work.

A couple of hours, meeting with various people. I heard the same day.

They want to see if you are a "humble listener" which is the company motto. A humble listener wants to learn from their interactions with others and is thinking about their style of communication to connect well with others.