Leader in Population Genomics - Anonymous employee Helix Employee Review

5.0
22 Sept 2019
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- Strong momentum and market traction in the new population health / population genomics focus. Already the leader in this market category. Feels great to have made so much progress in a short period of time! - Making real impact in people's lives. Much more so than in the B2C / ancestry market. In our population health projects, already seeing lives being changed through early detection of disease - Working with health systems, researchers, and payers around the US, including some of the largest. The industry is going to be surprised when we announce. - Amazing team who you learn from every day. There are some negative comments here from people who have left or were let go because the company shifted away from the digital marketing / consumer focus. Most people here are passionate about healthcare, believers in the mission, and probably don't spend any time reading Glassdoor. - New CEO has brought strong focus and discipline

Cons

- As with most startups, there's a lot of work to do. Priorities can change quickly so not a good fit if you don't want to have to adjust from time to time - Externally, not everyone knows what Helix does yet. Still more work needed to tell the story of what we've accomplished and where we are focused versus a year or two ago

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Helix Response
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Thank you for your feedback! We agree! We see how successful we can be with pop health and yes, it will be a lot of work to achieve our goals, continue making an impact and brand ourselves even more. We have a great team to do this work and our mission, values, culture and team members are our drivers. Let's keep going! Feel free to reach out to me or anyone on the leadership team if you want to chat or share any feedback. Thanks again! -Romina

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