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Starr Companies
2.4 of 5 5 reviews
www.starrcompanies.com New York, NY 150 to 499 Employees
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Updated Apr 18, 2013

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Former Employee – worked at Starr Companies full-time for more than 7 years

ProsI spent 5 years with Starr and had a very enjoyable experience. The people are smart, efficient and problem solvers. A great environment!

ConsBy 2010 many senior executives from AIG came over, possibly after waiting for some of the scandal "dust" to settle. With this came the old boys network I had wanted to avoid.
And things simply deteriorated from there.

Advice to Senior ManagementTo back to problem solving and creative solutions. You were so good at it. Now, all I saw was indecision and finger pointing

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

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New York, NY (US)

Former Employee – worked at Starr Companies full-time for more than a year

ProsOther than compensation based on a 7 hr workday - None

ConsIncompetent management
Lack of vision and direction
Competition across management yields a fractured organization
Fear-based actions result in poor solution decisions

Advice to Senior ManagementLeverage the resources and staff at hand
Think outside of the box
Accepting risk is a strategy
Man up

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

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New York, NY (US)

Current Employee – been working at Starr Companies

ProsChallenging work, work independently, good benefits

ConsIT is inferior to similar companies of same size and revenue. Majority of managerial staff share small offices. Sr staff are AIG old timers, who are close minded. Extremely political. Big Egos.

Advice to Senior ManagementBe open minded and let AIG go. Stop behaving like a bunch of high school girls bashing each other.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

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Current Employee – been working at Starr Companies

ProsFlexible, Stars, fast paced, location

Consleadership, staff, computers, files, hr

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

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San Francisco, CA (US)

Former Employee – worked at Starr Companies

ProsThe company sticks to its core business, understands their products, and how their products fit their client's needs.

ConsThe lack of an adequate financial/accounting reporting system doesn's allow the company to make quick and accurate decisions about their products.

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