What's It Like to Work at Cedar?

Consistently, the thing we hear most from Cedarians — in engagement surveys, in 30-day check-ins, and in exit conversations — is that the people are the reason they came and the reason they stay. When someone tells us their favorite part of working at Cedar is their colleagues, that's the culture working as intended.
We also have meaningful retention signals across tenures and functions — from engineers who joined nine years ago because of the mission and are still here, to newer employees who say the cultural signals they picked up in the interview process fully held up once they were inside. The question, “I would recommend Cedar as a great place to work,” on our annual engagement survey has significantly exceeded the greater tech industry benchmark for the past two years. We're proud to have held a Best Places to Work designation from Built In for six consecutive years, which is grounded in employee feedback on culture, benefits, and flexibility.

We've built a reputation as an employer where smart, mission-driven people come to do the hardest and most meaningful work of their careers. We're working on an intractable problem in a high-urgency moment for healthcare, and we don't shy away from that. What we try to ensure is that the pace is meaningful, the support is real, and the work never comes at the expense of people's boundaries or wellbeing. We're recognised on Forbes Best Startup Employers (No. 12 overall, No. 1 in Healthcare) and on Built In's Best Places to Work for six consecutive years.
Externally, clients frequently cite Cedar's people as a strategic differentiator — not just the technology. Candidates consistently remark that the cultural signals from our interview process (the quality of people, the thoughtfulness of the process, the transparency) pan out once they're inside.

Optional Triage: Some reviews on Glassdoor and Blind have mentioned the pace and intensity of Cedar's environment. That's accurate — we're working on a hard problem in a high-urgency moment for healthcare, and we don't shy away from that. What we try to ensure is that the pace is meaningful, the support is real, and the work never comes at the expense of people's boundaries or wellbeing.

Cedar is a fast-paced environment working on a genuinely difficult problem. That means the work is exciting, but it also means that ambiguity, iteration, and stretch are part of the experience. People who thrive here tend to be adaptable, curious, and energised by complexity.
We're intentional about surfacing these realities in recruiting conversations — our interview process is designed to be practical and transparent, testing the kinds of thinking you'll actually use on the job. We want people to come in with accurate expectations, which is why we encourage candidates to ask hard questions and treat the interview as a two-way evaluation.

The healthcare affordability crisis is not abstract to us — it's the reason we exist, and it's getting more urgent, not less. When employees say they're proud to come to work, it's because the stakes are real and visible. Patients are struggling to afford care, and Cedar is one of the few companies in a position to actually change that.
That sense of purpose is a thread that runs through every function at Cedar — from engineering to finance to HR. It's hard to manufacture, and it's one of the things that makes Cedar genuinely distinctive as a place to work.