Pluspunten
1) Generous 401k package (120% match up to 6% of your salary)........ 2) It's a culture that respects work-life balance; you often see people, even execs, leaving at 5 and working from home on Fridays....... 3) Clean, spacious, modern facilities with table tennis and shuffeboard in the kitchens......... 4) Free gym access to the in-building gym.......... 5) Great technology and good perks - for example, free company provided cell phone depending on your job duties.....
Minpunten
1)Very poor leadership:there's a lot of vague but big talk about trying to beat its competition, and aiming for nearly impossible growth in the next few years but with the current leadership's level of knowledge and competence it seems very unlikely to happen. Most of not all directors and C-levels are closer to figureheads who attend meaningless meetings most of the day and delegate duties to their managers and staff than effective drivers in this company's growth................... 2) Middle management is a joke: this company primarily promotes based on tenure as oppose to skillset and competence, so people whose first job out of college is Medamerica, ends up being a manager some 5+ years later despite having zero management skills, and zero experience in any other company. To echo the sentiments of other reviewers, this leaves much to be desired........ 3) Non-existent career path for at least 60% of positions: for the few that are qualified to be managers, this company does not provide adequate training for them to lead. From new hires to people who've been here a while, there's nothing to help them advance their career. They give you a "mentor" from your field or something similar when you first start or if you request one, but these are pretty much useless due to lack of professional training for those mentors (whose first job was probably Medamerica) and exposure to different areas in their domains. ...................... 4) No structure or processes in place adequate enough to scale - MA suffers from major growing pain, having been around 40+ years they should be well past the start-up phase but many departments still feel like a brand new start up with figurehead leadership, non existent middle management and decentralized teams. This is again, due to lack of competence in management and leadership. .................. 5) Lack of accountability and general lackluster culture -the vast majority of people here are either a) older folks looking for a steady job to take care of their family until retirement or b) fresh out of college kids with undeveloped skill sets and unclear of what they want out of their career. Consequently, you get an odd mix of a corporate culture and mini sub-cultures. Accountability is a huge issue: Many are unwilling to admit fault whenever they mess up, and the general vibe is closer to 'put in the least effort to get the job done', as oppose to really stepping up and putting in 110% (although understandably so, considering there is little incentive to do that) .................. 6) Favoritism and nepotism: many reviewers have noted, and it is very true, that to get ahead here you kiss up to management rather than build your skillset. There are also a lot of relatives related to the execs who are pretty much automatically placed into internships or for full time positions, and not get repercussions for the ones bad at their job duties. ................. 7) Poor communication and obsessed with meetings: Departments rarely talk to one another unless there is some formal meeting; management is not at all involved in the day to day job duties of their staff. This company tends to run on meetings obsessively although few are actually substantial. ...................... 8) No backbone with regards to the doctors: the partnership with CEP is closer to a 'bend over backwards and do whatever CEP throws at them last minute' kind of relationship than a true partnership. Management and leadership tends to promise more than they can deliver to CEP and delegates tasks with vague instructions to their subordinates. This leads to disgruntled, overworked staffs and a high turnover rate. .................... Overall this is not a 'best place to work' by any means, but rather a 'if you have no other choice and needs a job to pay the bills' kind of place. A lot of the points I mention above reflect the general corporate America culture and certainly not unique to MA, but if you're looking for a place where you actually enjoy coming to work and doing your ,look elsewhere.............
