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Maxwell Health

Acquired by Sun Life

Is this your company?

No longer a "startup" - Anonymous employee Maxwell Health Employee Review

3.0
Dec 8, 2015
Anonymous employee
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Pros

- Smart people - Passionate leaders - Great cause and huge potential to disrupt the healthcare industry - Great location - Great benefits

Cons

- Culture is very "cliquey". - Low compensation with the promise of high bonuses that aren't guaranteed - Basically zero growth opportunities - Lack of middle management, which means little to no direct feedback - Enormous amounts of money spent on parties, with almost none spent on training

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Maxwell Health Response
10y
First of all, thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts. It's important for us to hear and address feedback - both positive and constructive. It really saddens me that you don't feel like you have an opportunity for growth at Maxwell Health, as that goes against everything we stand for. There's a lot we do as a company with respect to training, including coaching, mentoring, bringing in outside expertise, formal and informal courses (both for our own teams and the community), documentation of best practices, expert talks, etc. These are all forms of professional development that make our teams and our company better. We take professional development seriously, and our investment in our team is especially strong for a company at our growth stage. This is something we will continue to invest in -- we’re planning initiatives for 2016 now, and I’d love to hear any ideas you might have. On top of that, we have a world class team of managers who are here to help you, and to guide and develop teams that feel empowered and can be their best. We also encourage everyone at Maxwell to reach out to people across teams if you feel they can provide guidance -- including our senior leadership and CEO. Additionally, we are very committed to providing growth opportunities and a variety of experiences for our team. While it's not possible in every circumstance and at the time we would all prefer, we have many examples within our company of people who have transitioned to a new team, been promoted or taken on new and bigger responsibilities and challenges. I would go so far as saying that one of our strengths as a company is identifying people with great potential and giving them the opportunity to go after it. Separately, a bonus -- partially or in its entirety -- is never a guarantee. Bonuses at Maxwell are based on personal and corporate performance, and we will evaluate and award bonuses accordingly. As always, I'd love to hear your feedback on how we can improve. If you have ideas, let’s have an open conversation. Please call me or stop by my desk! Our CEO is also very open to discussing constructive feedback. I’m dedicated to helping foster a positive culture that is collaborative and inclusive, and deeply appreciate the importance of constantly getting better. -Kelsey Sullivan

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Pros

The Team work was awesome, everyone looked out for each other if help was needed.

Cons

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5.0
Dec 29, 2016
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Pros

I've worked at a lot of places over the years so I've developed a strong sense of "red flags" over my time. Before I accepted a position at Maxwell I wanted to meet the founders because I've learnt the hard way that the culture of a company generally starts from the top down. Luckily for me the founders at Maxwell are both incredible and honestly, truly, want to build an amazing company that makes benefits better in America. They are both incredibly passionate about Maxwell, and the mission, and they live up to their own values constantly. If you're reading this you probably already know how rare that is, and how often values disappear when money is on the table. This is not the case at Maxwell and it makes me proud to be here. The other big pro (and when it comes down to it what else really matters) are the people at Maxwell. Incredibly smart, hard working, and just downright nice people surround me every day I'm at work and it's a constant pleasure to work with them. Everyone is genuinely committed to doing whatever it takes for our customers and I've witnessed people really going out on a limb to help in any way they can. Oh, and a minor point but we're starting to build up a really strong remote work culture which I personally think is incredibly important.

Cons

I honestly don't have a huge amount to write about here. Our problems are similar to any company of this age and size, some tech debt to fight, struggles to get conference rooms because we've grown so fast, and touchy wifi! Nothing major to complain about.

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Maxwell Health Response
9y
Thank you for providing your perspective and insights. I echo all your feedback Maxwell Health is a company that is passionate driven and focused on building great technology with an amazing team. Kathy Breslin VP People
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