Ode to BerkleyNet - Anonymous employee BerkleyNet Employee Review

1.0
19 Oct 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

First and foremost, this is a great place to make friends. Secondly, Attrition is so high, you'll get a lot of responsibility really fast if you work hard and play your cards right. It sucks working here, but if you're bright, you'll tough it out and gain the experience necessary to make strides in your career in less time you'd be able to elsewhere. BerkleyNet will teach you how to play the game, the importance of office politics, and maybe even a little something about insurance.

Cons

If you take a job here, prepare to have BerkleyNet's "values" stuffed down your throat until you realize that you're more cultist than analyst or leader of anything. But despite the frequency and zealotry with which the values are espoused, nobody in management seems to follow them. Additionally, promotions correlate more strongly with being liked than with being an innovator, generating energy, or any of the other values that BerkleyNet preaches so ardently. Furthermore, management continuously creates new titles for themselves so that they can more effectively take credit for the hard work and unpaid overtime of their employees. And as the fruits of your labor are claimed by others, you’re also forced to smile blithely and vapidly applaud the virtue of the company. I recommend that before you work here, you ask questions like "How many directors are there per manager?" "How many managers per team lead?" Know that at the beginning of 2015, there were no AVPs, no directors, and no managers. Just saying.

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Cons

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Pros

-You will be hard pressed to find another company that invests in your professional growth as much as BNet does. BerkleyNet understands that not everyone comes in with insurance expertise and will give you the resources to teach you and expose you to all areas of the business. -The finance department where I worked is a great group of individuals and is a tight knit team. The CFO is incredibly knowledgeable and supportive whenever you have questions or an idea you’d like to share. -involvement in cross functional projects was a great way to get exposed to the full business. This is not the place to be if you want to come in and only do accounting. There is an expectation that you become a well rounded professional and understand the insurance industry which may be a con to some people. -BNet does a great job with transparency and communication from upper management. Routine town halls kept the whole company informed on ongoing projects and quarterly financial results.

Cons

Manassas is a very nice area but unfortunately for me was just a long commute

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