Pros
Fun environment, the company tries to embody a West-Coast start-up culture with a public policy twist. Very ambitious growth strategy. There are many very strong conceptual thinkers and the technology solutions being developed are very modern in design and functionality.
Cons
The issues with Aledade stem from the hubris of the leadership team. Farzad, is more a marketing icon and is tangentially involved in a few parts of the company but does not comprehend the daily challenges of staff. In fact company survey results are skewed/manipulated to show that the company has a positive atmosphere which anyone who has been there for more than 6 months can attest to being erroneous. The manipulation of data to serve Aledade's whatever intended purpose is very common. I would highly discourage any external parties to accept any data that Aledade reports at face value. Employee's are at the whim of legal gray areas, although employee's may be explained one thing during the hiring process, reimbursement is slow and legal language may also be reinterpreted at a later time. If you're considering a field/operations position understand that you will be working an average of 70+hours per week, with little to no credit for accomplishments. If you're considering an engineering/analytics position be prepared that your projects will suffer from several iterations of new requirements during development. Projects are rarely completed on time and products also have a very low rate of successful deployment. Features requested may never be used. Many solutions suggested by the engineers and supported by the field teams are stuck down by the operations leadership team. I encourage potential candidates, investors, and partners, whom may be reading this with skepticism, to consider my claims in context with information that is available publicly about Aledade. Aledade took 2 years to make savings in any of their ACOs, neither amount of savings was exceptional. Aledade has received several rounds of investment at the same capital level, ($20-30 million) with very few new investors in any of those rounds. High staff turnover rate, this information may be difficult to come by but is a strong external indicator.
