Cerner Employee Job Reviews in the United States

"Okay"

What do you like about working at Cerner?

"This company has a lot of very good benefits and a very excellent compensation package."

What don't you like about working at Cerner?

"They work you to death. I worked on average 14 hours a day. Some days I worked 20 hours. This was the only downfall to working for Charles Schwab."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Decrease workload on employees."

"Bad pay and unrealistic expectations."

"I enjoyed my time at Cerner"

What do you like about working at Cerner?

"Solid product, very good methodology, excellent learning environment"

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

"Excellent place to learn a solid clinical software package and structured methodology"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Keep up the good work!"

"Cerner is a good place to learn good networking skills."

What do you like about working at Cerner?

"Meeting so many different types of people and travelling."

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

"If you enjoy healthcare IT this is a great place to grow and learn."

What don't you like about working at Cerner?

"Not meeting many of the people you work with over the computer."

"Cerner is a very fast-paced cream of the crop company located unfortunately in the heart of America."

What do you like about working at Cerner?

"Decent pay, good work/life balance"

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

"I have plenty. This company is not for slackers and you absolutely must be qualified in your field to take on the tasks at hand. Programmers must be flexible and enjoy a fast paced environment."

What don't you like about working at Cerner?

"Demanding overtime, poorly located"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Management overall is good. But extreme company dedication via overtime often plays a major role in promotions."

What do you like about working at Cerner?

"The challenge"

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

"You will be working a lot."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"More people less hours."

"I am glad to offer honest opinion"

What do you like about working at Cerner?

"Good environment and people"

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

"Be honest and straight forward. Do not beef up your work experience or education."

What don't you like about working at Cerner?

"Highway access especially 29 N"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Keep up the good job"

"Honest"

What do you like about working at Cerner?

"some of the people are exceptional and talented"

What don't you like about working at Cerner?

"much of the direction and management is completely lost and no one will step outside of their small, defined area and take control or give solid direction."

"OK.. just not in a remote office"

What do you like about working at Cerner?

"fast moving and enterprising company."

What don't you like about working at Cerner?

"benefits were not good at all"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"focus on maintaining employees and not churn and burn"

"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."

"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."

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."

"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."

"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."

"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."