Just a terrible experience from start to finish. Favoritism, nepotism and condescending attitudes are rife. The “People” people will no doubt try to spin this into a positive with “exciting new processes”, “periods or rightsizing” or “attracting the best people”. Let me tell you, it’s all bull. You’ll be siloed, kept in the dark, questioned at every turn and micromanaged until you’ll wonder if it’s OK to urinate alone.
Staff turnover was the highest I’ve ever seen in any company. The only happy looking people are the grads, interns or people that have never worked anywhere else, because they just don’t know any better.
Senior managers are unbelievably inexperienced (with exceptions) as most of them have made it to the lofty heights through tenure and sycophancy. The majority of staff are technically competent to a degree, but nowhere near as good as Orion profess them to be. Mediocre at best.
The new products Orion keep promoting as the cutting-edge future of healthcare are just truly awful. They constantly break, are very badly managed, and have very unhappy clients using them. Clients that don’t pay their bills due to the sub-standard product and support provided. Precision medicine isn’t going to be a thing for years to come. When the CEO spunks $30k of his own money trying to gather all the data over 2 years and is still nowhere near completing this task, how is it going to be useful to the global population? Not soon, that’s when. Stick to your cash cow, i.e. Rhapsody.
Benefits provided are the minimum allowed by law, certainly not good enough to attract “super smart developers”. You also need to remember that attracting these “rock stars” is not an efficient way to run a business and makes you look narrow minded. You need competent developers along with talented financiers, business analysts, managers and educators.
Bonuses are never paid, because the company doesn’t make any profit, but you’ll be told when you join that they're always payed. Another blatant lie, yet the CEO recently started driving a new Tesla. Great advert there, Ian.
