Highmark Health reviews

3.3

47% would recommend to a friend

(1,363 total reviews)
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David L. Holmberg

57% approve of CEO

40% positive business outlook

Highmark Health has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 1,363 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Highmark Health employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Healthcare industry (3.4 stars).

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1.0
Feb 1, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Free parking and free on-site gym, but probably not much longer until Senior Management discovers this as another opportunity to pull the rug out from employees.

Cons

To numerous to count. I once saw Highmark as the "beacon on the hill" and the company that I needed to get in to because of the position they once held in the industry. But no more, I have seen the light and fully realize now that Highmark is gone off the rails and is no longer the industry leader. New hire training is a joke as so called mentors don't even know the applications, processes and procedures themselves. You are placed in a silo to work on your own, figure out your own questions and try to learn by failure until you by some slim chance figure something out on your own. You are set up to not be successful so Management can rate you unfavorably on your performance and start their twisted justification that you should be eliminated in your position with Highmark. I would never recommend anyone seek employment with Highmark. Save yourself the misery, disappointment and frustration you will most certainly endure daily. Highmark is no longer the "beacon on the hill", rather they are a complete train wreck. Any potential customer seeking to align with Highmark as their vendor.....think twice and look at other vendors in the industry before signing on with Highmark (Health Solutions). Their product(s) is subpar and wrought with defects, design flaws, etc., etc., etc.

1.0
Aug 15, 2016

Stay away

Recommend
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Pros

Your health insurance will be nice (But still not free)

Cons

No room to move up. The entire company lost the ability to work from home & had their reduced 401k matching benefits reduced during my 2 years of employment. There will be no visibility on your work. You will have a minimum of 3 managers because they can't get things right. You will not get a raise within 2 years. It's just bad.

1.0
Jul 17, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

I started at Highmark in their Emerging Leadership Program. If you manage to get into that, it's a nice introduction to the world of corporate technology. There is a gym on site which is convenient for lunch breaks as well.

Cons

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

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