As I said above I started at Highmark in the Emerging Leadership Program. After two years I was rotated out to a normal position working on their customer facing website. During that time I saw Highmark separated their technology company and named it HMHS. This caused a change in workplace atmosphere, from a company that cared about people, work life balance, etc, into a corporate meat grinder, that cares nothing about employees and only about their customers demands.
Speaking of which, the company does not know how to solution at all. Instead of the customers coming with a problem, and the company suggesting multiple solutions that could solve it, the customers come to the company with solutions, which are often not founded in what is technology feasible. These solutions are then thrust down on the app devs from upper management, usually accompanied by wildly aggressive and unrealistic deadlines. I've seen fellow developers in my time there easily work 60-80 hour weeks.
This would all be well and good if excelling employees were recognized and rewarded. But it seemed like the only reward at HMHS was a pat on the back, and twice as much work, because those who got tired of the environment quit and were never replaced. Or if they were, it was with contractors who don't even know what a debugger is. What makes this all the worse is that their pay is not competitive in Pittsburgh either. And they are stubborn at best to promote employees, or give them fair raises, so the advancement opportunities there are scarce.
Their technology stack is largely out of date as well, and the process to get new technology approved and implemented is fraught with so much politics and red-tape it is near impossible. Not to mention many useful websites are blocked through their internet, due to "risks". Who knew github was a risk?
Overall I would not recommend anyone to work at HMHS. It is too
