Inovalon reviews

not a lot of stability, a lot of people are wondering what is going to happen after the company goes public but the executives are playing it pretty close to the vest

Inovalon by far tops the list as the worst company I have ever had the pleasure of working for throughout my career. The truly talented never make it long, often times only a few months. Its common place for people to quit without notice or a mass exodus after year end bonuses are received. The morale is low and stress levels are high, the Only people that stick around either have Stock and are waiting on the IPO, are friends or minions of certain VP's and C-Suite execs so they can do no wrong and often get the random "discretionary" bonuses that they think no one knows about or Inovalon is paying for them to stay in the country and they cant leave or this is the Only job they have ever really had and they don't understand that this environment is FAR from the norm. This place is an Absolute pressure cooker. Leadership does not care about its employees at all, we constantly are thrown in the line of fire with clients due to unfeasible/unrealistic contracts and timelines. They will sign up for a contract in which they know typically requires a 3 month ramp up time, if the client requests it to start next week they agree to it and have people working 24 hours/ 7 days a week to try and make it happen and when it doesn't the Product Development teams are to blame. Everything is an urgent emergency here, every day something falls apart or reporting is incorrect due to a horrible architecture that no one ever wants to invest money into fixing. We constantly band-aid issues only for the same problem to come back the following week only bigger, the majority of our clients are dissatisfied. Product teams are held to get work done when they have no development resources assigned to do their work. There are no PM's in the traditional sense, you know the ones that handle costs, budget, resource allocation, etc, our PM's coordinate meetings and open bridge lines. There is constant organizational change, teams being split up without work being properly transitioned. The VP's and GM's sell you on how you can use your talent here and help to influence change and when you start you are looked at as the enemy if you disagree and don't immediately conform to the norm. There are no true job descriptions, all jobs are incredibly blurred, everyone is expected to do everything, no processes or true governance put in place. Sr. VP's only feel you deserve a bonus if he sees you online at 10pm at night or if you are one of his friends or one of his minions (see above). Bonuses are funded from HR at 100% but by the time the money gets down to the employees over 50% of what they could have had has been mysteriously taken away so that leadership, friends and minions can get larger bonuses. Greed is at an All time high here so the employees that do the day to day work are often left with nothing, even Directors with good intentions and want to look out for their employees often have no control over these situations. Every word that was said about the CEO in others reviews is truth so I will just add that he is an extremely greedy, selfish and arrogant person, its a shame to treat people the way that he does, people at all levels, yes I said ALL levels... Imagine a CEO reviewing your reports guide and forcing you to redo it from scratch on a Friday night. Welcome to Inovalon, the worst work environment imaginable. I expect this place to get even worse after going public, so please take heed to the advise that I wish I would have received prior to joining and if nothing else stay away from the Risk Adjustment product team! The CEO should go ahead and sell the place.