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Employee Review of Cerner Corp. - Check out more reviews of working at Cerner Corp.

From Bangalore — 01/07/2010

CategoryRating
Pay-1
Respect3
Benefits2
Job Security5
Work/Life Balance-5
Career Potential/Growth-5
Location2
Co-worker Competence3
Work Environment3
I have recently shifted to another job from Cerner India and want to share my experience working in this company. Note that I feel that Cerner is very different from "Cerner India". I love "Cerner" but hate "Cerner India".
Pros:
1) If you are a fresher, you would be trained well and you get to gain a good exposure to industry practices.
2) Pay for freshers is good
3) Job security - You need to slap your manager to get fired.. that is for a month or so periodically.
3) If you can survive in Cerner for 2 years without burning out, you can survive in most of the world deserts, north, south poles and enjoy working in any of the other IT companies.
Cons:
1) You can forget about the term "life" for a while. No one knows what work-life balance is in this company.
2) You get to meet defective human beings (museum specimens) called "Software Architects" which I feel you would have no chance of coming across any where in the world. These specimens/entities are direct descendants of the "pointy haired boss from Dilbert comics". They are extremely incompetent (technically, socially) and only exist to make the associates work for 15 hours a day.
3) Regardless of how much training you receive here, your technical, coding skills will evaporate because the work is mostly clerical (some of it is like data entry) regardless of what your title is.
4) As soon as the specimens/entities(see point 2) above you feel you are becoming too important for the team, they would bring in a few dummies and ask you to train them (in case you try to leave).
5) There would be constant pressure to increase the output of the associate (regardless of whether the output is already high or not).
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