Cerner Corporation Employer Reviews

Amazing company to work for with lots of benefits to working at the world head quarters

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Cerner is a great place for someone right out of school to start the career. The culture is very high pace, things change constantly. There are a lot of young, ambitious and smart people to learn from. They do provide significant training. The compensation is below market.

This is a good first job for college kids just starting out. You'll gain lots of useful experience. Just be prepared to work some long hours. If you're a hard charger, you can move up the ladder fast. However, my advice is to work here for 2-3 years, get your feet wet, and then let your experience with Cerner catapult you to a better job. That's what – more... I did. As mentioned previously, working here means no work/life balance (60+ hours are common), most employees are underpaid and employee performance reviews are done using the bell curve. – less

I most enjoyed working for Cerner (a big company) is I got to wear alot of hats. I was exposed to so much experience and responsibility and I really loved learning all of it. I worked for alot of great managers who would help you advance your career, not hold you back. I learned so much I dont evern know where to start. I started out as a graphic designer – more... and the rest of my career followed with; functional analysts, multi-media developer, usability designer, project manager and client education program coordinator. I developed so many new skill sets. – less

WORK IS NOT DIFFICULT AS LONG AS YOU PUSH ASIDE THE CUSTOMERS NEEDS AND CLOSE ALL CALLS ASAP! THE CERNER ETREBY FAMILY IS HARD TO WORK WITH ESPECIALLY IF YOU DO NOT SPEAK THEIR LANGUAGE! EMPLOYEES GATHER INTO GROUPS LIKE A "GANG" AND YOU WILL BE "PUT OUT" IF YOU DO NOT FOLLOW THE DEVIL CREW! NO ONE WILL ADMIT IT DUE A BASIC PHARM. TECH SALARY STARTING – more... AT $22/HR (ONLY PERK!) MANAGEMENT PHILOSOPHY "ONE WILL LIE AND THE OTHER WILL SWEAR TO IT!" HARDEST PART OF THE JOB IS TRUST AND TEAM WORK! GREAT PLACE TO START WORK IF YOU CAN HANDLE ALL THE GOSSIP. DO NOT TRUST ANYONE, LEARN FAST WHAT YOU CAN AND THEN GET OUT ASAP! – less

This company has been great to work for but I am only a PRN employee while I finished this semester.

Typically work week is 60 hrs plus. Learned a Electronic Medical Record system to facilitate patient care. Managers are "hands off" and available to give direction and assistance if needed. Depending on where you work, you may or may not see your co-workers. Hardest part of the job is learning the CERNER culture. The most enjoyable was having the freedom – more... to grow and learn new things in an enviroment that encourage you to do so. – less

Great company to work for. Plenty of lee-way to move around and great opportunities for growth.

It is a great place to work right after you graduate college, but the culture seems to lean towards leaving the company after you have been there for a few years. There aren't thatmany associates that have worked there for more than 10 years. It was fun to work with a lot of people who were recent college graduates.

Enjoyed the people I worked with but couldn't take the travel so much as I was settling down. You learn a lot of hands on experience pretty quickly, however there is a lot to learn and you feel like you can never know it all. There are good perks to traveling, but it can be difficult if you are not single.

Manager and culture match sensibilities. I'm free to come in late/leave early as long as my work is getting done. However, when it comes down to the deadlines, I'm expected to repay those missed hours by staying late and coming in early. Fair trade, I would say.
Lots of newly graduated engineers working here, so experience is kind of hard to come by.

Cerner is an organization that prizes being on the brink of the best technological advances in personal medical information. The work environment is one of development and constant change, which must be expected in a technology based company. Be prepared by loving what you do, as you will spend ample time doing and improving upon it.

Working for Cerner was ok. At first, I didn't understand the significance of how I was contributing to my assigned department or Cerner as a whole. At the end of the internship they explained how I was contributing. It was my first time working in a coorporate setting so the experience was very different.

American ops are great; in Canada - is complete opposite. micro management and semi retired staff unwilling to work with new employees. Wont recommend unless you are willing to move to Kansas City, MO.

Cerner Corporation, Kansas City Jan’11 to Current
Informatica Lead
Cerner is a global supplier of healthcare solution with more than 8,000 clients worldwide. The job required to develop Lighthouse product and the Enterprise Data Warehouse at Cerner. Lighthouse empowers organizations to identify high value improvement opportunities by employing a data-driven, – more... an evidence-based and a technology-leveraged approach. It uses data from the current Data Warehouse system to compare known optimal processes and identify opportunities for improvements.

Responsibilities:
• Developed mappings/Reusable Objects/Transformation/mapplets by using mapping designer, transformation developer and mapplet designer in Informatica Power Center 9.1.
• Designed and developed mappings using Source Qualifier, Expression, connected-Lookup and unconnected-Lookup, Router, Aggregator, Filter, Sequence Generator, Stored Procedure, Update Strategy, joiner & Rank transformations.
• Experience working on KPIs (key Performance Indicators) in software development projects on CPP platform.
• Reportable information generated by Healthcare providers are delivered to end users in HL7 file or web based reports
• Extensively used Informatica Client Tools – Source Analyzer, Warehouse Designer, Mapping Designer, Mapplet Designer, Informatica Repository Manager and Workflow Manager
• Created complex mappings using several transformations like Source Qualifier, Expression, Dynamic lookup, Aggregator, Joiner, Sequence generator, Router, Filter, Stored procedure, Sorter and update strategy transformations
• Develop stored procedures and functions in PL/SQL using SQL Developer as part of transformations during ETL process
• Excellent technical and analytical skills with clear understanding of design goals of ER modeling for OLTP and dimension modeling for OLAP
• Worked with Informatica Power Exchange 8.6.1 which works in conjunction with PowerCenter9.1 to capture changes to data in source tables and replicate those changes to target tables and files
• Create work tables and indexes for intermediate processing as part of ETL process
• Create/Modify CCL scripts to extract data from Cerner Millennium systems
• Created and scheduled Sessions, Jobs based on demand, run on time and run only once using Workflow manager
• Create and update the Informatica parameter files which are using during workflow processing
• Developed and deployed UNIX shell scripts to work with flat files, to define parameter files and to create pre and post session commands
• Maintain Development, Test the Production mapping migration Using Repository Manager
• Use Debugger to troubleshoot existing mappings as for better performance using different techniques to provide maximum efficiency
• Used pmcmd, pmrep commands in various UNIX shell scripts to automate the sessions running processes
• Create test data and performed White box, Black box, Integration and Regression testing of informatica mappings
• Precise documentation was done for all mappings and stored procedures.
• Created several custom laboratory, Syndromic, Susceptibility and Cancer reports for clients in SAP Business Objects
• Generated the Business Objects reports using the universe as main Data provider and writing complex queries using sub queries, derived tables, unions and intersects
• Reports were formatted to the users according to the requirements using Business objects features like Slice and Dice, Drill down and formulae
• Import and Export Business Objects (BO) code between various environments using wizards
• Schedule and review code using Crucible
• Create and install packages as part of moving code across different environments
• Involved in creation of various Unix Scripts and Perl Scripts which help the ETL scheduling jobs and help in initial validations of various tasks.
• Wrote UNIX Shell Scripts for Informatica Pre-Session, Post-Session
• Involved in Converting and gathering necessary calculation of PL SQL complex calculations into Informatica mappings.
• Classify functional and non-functional requirements for the Lighthouse applications to be developed.
• Troubleshoot technical issues/Service requests on the production platform.
• Perform well under pressure in a fast-pace production environment.

Environment: Informatica PowerCenter 9.1/9.x/8.x (Designer, Workflow Manager and Monitor), Oracle 11i, SAP Business Objects, MS Excel, UNIX shell. – less

Hard working and Productive Enviroment. Cerner its an amazing place for someone right out of school to start the career. The culture is very high pace, things change constantly. There are a lot of young, ambitious and smart people to learn from. They do provide significant training. The compensation is ok.

As a Consultant, my job is working with Client and helping them on day to day basis