Until very recently, I used to work in the healthcare industry before switching to a different one. I only got into it because it was hip during covid, until it wasn’t.
The pay is bad and developers are treated like commodities by the upper management. You are expected to understand all the context around building products and at the same time, chase deadlines in every sprint. This usually happens because the business people have no idea how to run a tech company.
Also, the products are usually fraught with technical debt and no one wants to work with the codebase because working on that crap for a longer period of time will just make them unemployable. Healthcare tech is garbage for a reason.
There’s a disconnect between product owners and the engineers working on the product. Smaller teams can usually avoid it if less cross team communication is required to build and maintain the product.
The pay is bad and developers are treated like commodities by the upper management. You are expected to understand all the context around building products and at the same time, chase deadlines in every sprint. This usually happens because the business people have no idea how to run a tech company.
Also, the products are usually fraught with technical debt and no one wants to work with the codebase because working on that crap for a longer period of time will just make them unemployable. Healthcare tech is garbage for a reason.
There’s a disconnect between product owners and the engineers working on the product. Smaller teams can usually avoid it if less cross team communication is required to build and maintain the product.