Q&A With Healthgrades Employees

intelligent

Brown-nosing middle management types.

cumbersome

quirky, dirty-minded, foul-mouthed geniuses

pessimistic

3-4 hours

Suit & tie/professional dress code. We're a casual office but I don't think that should apply to interviewees.

Somewhat.

What is *wrong* with you?

Decent

Not to my knowledge.

Poorly

N/A for Engineering

Behind the times

Can you do more work with fewer resources and requirements? Then you're successful

Bataan Death March

experience

Reviews are done annually. Raises are seldom more than 3%, and often less. Market adjustments are nonexistent, and promotion raises (when they happen) don’t make up the difference either.

The pay, though lousy by comparison to current market value, is enough to be comfortable. That and the time off.

I’m fairly secure in my job, but not at all secure in whether I want to be here.

Largely ignored. The company pays lip service to pretending our input matters, but things largely stay unchanged.

Fairly hard.

How many times things would drastically change over my tenure

We have had an influx of Indian contractors from a firm in Bangalore. Aside from that, very few non-Caucasian employees. Overall we have a pretty good male/female mix, but our engineering team is largely male-dominated

Denver: now, a racetrack. Circular hallway with medium to large open rooms of weird angle desks. Soon: large rooms with picnic bench style small desk areas, no personal space, no privacy.

6 weeks’ time off is pretty good, but it does include all your sick time. If you’re prone to illness better not plan on 6 weeks’ worth of vacation!