Great benefits, no advancement opportunities
Pros
Great benefits, decent salaries, great work life balance. Everyone is hired as a Senior Developer so the level of competency is usually very high. New Remote policy (2 days a week).
Cons
Slow or minimal technology innovation. As an insurance related company, AF tends to move slower than other technology companies. New frameworks or stacks are explored but often not implemented. Using “new” technology like the latest Java version, NodeJS, cloud based providers are frown upon and require new projects. No bonuses for non-developers. DBAs and QA analysts do not get bonuses. Slow VPN for remote users. This past year AF started a remote work policy, however the DevOps team has not been able to keep the VPN working fast at peak times. Change takes a long time to be implemented. Lots of our member companies use Cloud solutions but the Senior team insists on keeping some of its infrastructure onsite. Product/Business analyst team cannot communicate directly with members, this causes lots of missing requirements and sometimes leads to losing development time by redoing features (sometimes more than 2 times). Very flat structure, no room for advancement. People with more tenure rather than matching skills are often picked to become managers or leads.
