-Antisocial work environment at best, hostile at worst. No one is friendly.
-Lack of transferrable skills for employees.
-Low pay and benefits.
-Highly variable work schedule. If your team happens to be well-managed, you have a good work-life balance. If not, you're stuck with a horrible one.
-Poor management. Like, really poor management, as in I didn't know if I would be working until 5 or 11 pm until late that afternoon.
-Far from city areas, meaning virtually everyone has to commute.
-Limited projects that depend almost fully on CMS.
I have to be honest, I wouldn't recommend working here to anyone. There's awesome projects to be worked on; pub policy/econ/polisci grads have a great chance to increase tech skills, while policy-oriented tech workers have a great chance to enter policy. The problem is the workplace. It's highly inconvenient to get to, rabidly antisocial, lacks benefits or adequate salary, and is unpleasant to work at. The only person to whom i would wholeheartedly recommend this job would be a double public health/computer science major who hasn't learned SAS. If you aren't that ideal person, I would seriously look elsewhere. SAS is taught but is not that helpful in the broader work environment. Unless you get hired as upper management, you don't get a good sense of healthcare policy. And honestly, the work environment is really bad. I had never experienced such a negative and isolating experience until working here.
