Really Rough IT Epic Shop when is Secretly Farmed Out to Contractors- Lack of Alignment - Lots of Facade - IT Director Ascension Employee Review

2.0
Jun 18, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Leadership is willing to pay well.

Cons

Insane disconnect between executive leadership and their 'IT Department'. Ascension should not have to farm out work to contractors, but they do for all of their Epic work. This leads to an insane amount of costs, and the 'IT Leadership' really is just a facade. Significant misalignment between the local and national markets. Way too top-heavy, so nothing gets done.

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5.0
Apr 9, 2026
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Pros

Flexible, Supportive, Innovative, Inclusive, Great Benefits

Cons

Limited growth opportunities, Management is Unorganized

2.0
Jun 18, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

The patient population can be very rewarding to work with, and there can be lots of different job opportunities but very limited advancement with mainly lateral department shifts if a person is looking for change.

Cons

Raises are almost non-existent. The "raise" is a yearly COLA of between 2%-3%. There is no ability to talk to anyone regarding a raise, even the admin staff are fully stonewalled in the overlly corporate monolithic HR style of maintaining "fair" wages. I have worked here for several years and I actually earn less now because my "raises" do not keep up with inflation and the actual cost of living. They maintain their functionality on squeezing as much as they can out of one employer by slowly shifting more job responsibilities called "opportunities" onto you without extra pay or change in title that would get a pay increase. They look to higher level licensed staff to provide more coverage for roles that they won't hire for or cut in departments. They do "organizational restructuring" every 6 months because more staff quit, they don't replace the staff, and tell others to absorb the former FT employees job responsibilities without pay increase and being told not to go into OT.

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