Ascension reviews

Incompetent leadership, at multiple layers, is suffering from severe cognitive dissonance and extreme arrogance. Their implementation of SiteCore via a third party vendor is pathetic, and worse yet, undocumented. This is a classic case failure of leadership. Also, if you're going through the interview process here, please be very careful, do NOT believe in any of the technologies that are advertised by the recruiter and the job ad. During my recruitment process, I was told verbally as well as in writing that they were using or wanted to use: Docker, Kubernetes, NodeJS, Angular, ES6+, VueJS, TypeScript, React/Redux, .Net Core, etc. When I showed up for work, it was the complete opposite, they weren't interested in any of the technologies that I listed, (which THEY had advertised). They don't even have a Confluence page setup for onboarding, but yet they bought Jira from Atlassian. They're using Jira with Microsoft Team Foundation Server. On my 3rd day on the job, I had to show their developers how to do a code review and give feedback on the code file diffs, these are very fundamental skills. Their Agile process is a joke, scrum takes almost half an hour to complete for only about 6-7 developers reporting. I can go on and on, but I think you get the gist.

Ascension is fooling Nuns into giving up their non-profit healthcare organizations (for free) faster than they can assimilate them into their archaic IT infrastructure. Everything is money driven which doesn't feel like the mission of a non-profit catholic healthcare org. The moral compass of leadership was revealed when they threatened to shut down St. Joseph's hospital until the public cried out. Management was constantly driving home the fact that Ascension, as a whole, was off budget by $100 million. Even though AIS was in the black our cell phone stipend was taken away and they enforced a hiring/promotion freeze. I would bet that raises this year were nothing to write home about. Lots of sunshine meetings to try and raise morale and the level of brown nosing in the meetings was nauseating. Coupled with doom and gloom meetings to make sure we are all aware why we probably wont be getting raises flatlined my trust in leadership. They call their standards "Gold Standards".... gross....