Cerner Employee Job Reviews in the United States

"Cerner is a CULT-like organization."

What don't you like about working at Cerner?

"Too disorganized and not enough future planning. There is no transparency in the plans for the software."

What do you like about working at Cerner?

"I like knowing the social and global impact of my work"

What don't you like about working at Cerner?

"Higher level executives take employees as granted."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"They need to realize executive bonuses are less important than developers work balance."

"Different from what I've experienced before."

What do you like about working at Cerner?

"Results focused, fast paced, dynamic, high caliber individuals"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Good company."

What don't you like about working at Cerner?

"Great place to work. My commute was over 1 hour, which was the challenge."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"This was my issue, not Cerner's."

"The company was bought out by another company."

What do you like about working at Cerner?

"Good experience with application development."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"This is not applicable."

What don't you like about working at Cerner?

"The company was dissolved."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"More training on Microsoft."

"Cerner is a high demand organization with excellent benefits."

What do you like about working at Cerner?

"Pace of the job, Opportunity to work with the latest and greatest"

"Excellent, growing company with lots of opportunity but associates are expendable."

What do you like about working at Cerner?

"Cerner is growing at a very fast pace. It's a very stable career if you are good at what you do, and I value stability a great deal."

What don't you like about working at Cerner?

"Associates are expendable and they tend to burn people out."

"you can make cerner a great place to work for you"

What do you like about working at Cerner?

"there was a lot of freedom to manage my workload by myself. travel benefits were great for associates."

What don't you like about working at Cerner?

"as a virtual associate management will throw you in a project anywhere there is need despite their entire initiative to divide their client-base into regions and staff accordingly."

"Cerner was an excellent place for a first job after college. However, I knew that it was not a place I could see myself at long-term."

What do you like about working at Cerner?

"The compensation was very competitive for a new graduate, and it was exciting working in a field that felt like it really was on the brink of changing the way things are done, namely, in the way healthcare is delivered in hospitals and clinics."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be excited about big ideas, they love that kind of stuff there."

What don't you like about working at Cerner?

"The working environment was not always the most comfortable. Many of the employees who had worked there for a long time expressed disdain for upper management and the direction the company was headed, as well as a general lack of confidence in the competence of fellow employees or the speed of change in the organization."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"They do an excellent job of thinking big and heading up initiatives to take health care in new directions. However, they need to devote more resources to turning projects around faster, because due to the centralized architecture of the company's offerings, things do not happen very quickly and changes are not easy to make because they must be cleared organization-wide."

What do you like about working at Cerner?

"The mission and vision to improve healthcare and the architecture of the software."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Don't stay too long....3 or 4 years at the most."

What don't you like about working at Cerner?

"Cold management, not many chances for advancement unless you live or move to KC."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Become a more people oriented company with a management philosophy that incorporates employee caring and client importance."

"Fair, as my time with Cerner was short."

What do you like about working at Cerner?

"Professional organization, and I worked with some great people."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be prepared for a lengthy, but lively orientation."

What don't you like about working at Cerner?

"Weekly travel."

"Cerner, great place to work"

What do you like about working at Cerner?

"Cerner has a lot of great people working there. Lots of diverse personalities and met a few friends that I will have for the rest of my life. Everyone is very down to earth and doesn't mind rolling up their sleeves to get the job done. There were numerous opportunities for advancement, not just in my field but also opportunities to branch out into other fields as well. Another great part is the work you do at Cerner really makes a difference in the lives of patients in hospitals around the world."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"The interview process was pretty relaxed when I went through. They really want to make sure that you're going to fit into the corporate culture more than they are concerned that you are the best at what you do. Once you start working there you will undergo an extensive training program that will help acclimate you to the Cerner way of doing things."

What don't you like about working at Cerner?

"There were a number of short deadlines, long hours and late nights. And occasionally it was easy to feel that your hard work went unrecognized. Individual managers generally did their best to make everyone feel appreciated, but beyond that upper management rarely took notice."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Keep an open mind. You hire a lot of very smart people, and then take all their decision making away from them. Don't try to micro-manage a 7000 person company from the top. Instead allow direct managers and team leads the authority to make decisions that best fit their team."