Toxic environment - Operations Associate Swiss Re Employee Review

1.0
6 Nov 2022
Recommend
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Pros

I cannot thing of anything else than home office

Cons

Some people were very toxic and fake nice since the very first day of my arrival. People in my team were constantly trying to give their work to me just to get rid of their responsibility. The origanization of tasks was poorly done by the manager and herself didn't even do what she had to do. There was constant pressure on me just because distribution partners were not replying our emails so we couldn't get some work done..This company was a total chaos. Some days I didn't know where to start first. I had part time job working 4hours but they wanted me to do the job worth of 12hours every day. Some other days there was nothing to do at all. There were constant problems with software I worked with and IT issues got resolved so slowly. For example, it took more than 2 weeks to solve some basic problem (I couldn't upload some file in the system). Every person was avoiding their responsibility to help me. I also really disliked one colleague who was constantly patronizing me as if I was a toddler and she kept messaging me all the time for stupid things. This job had absolutely zero career opportunity. I was just killing time doing it because I took a language course. I do not advise anyone working there if you are ambitious and actually wanna move somewhere in life.

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The people you work with are amazing. The benefits are wonderful. I appreciate the bonus structure and the growth I've experienced with the organization.

Cons

Leadership's strategy and vision are severely lacking and self-serving. There's a lot of favoritism with the same people being included in decision-making without consideration for their ability to actually deliver results. In turn, the lower-level employees are left to clean up the disaster. I see that Swiss is on here making comments on employee reviews - hopefully they take note of how many people in the last 90 days said the same thing about the leadership strategy. We're not on glassdoor because we like reviewing our company - we're here looking for outside opportunities because of the way the company is currently operating. We're bleeding good talent because they no longer align with the corporate strategy.

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2.0
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Pros

1. 12% 401k match 2. Amazing co workers in the trenches but this is rapidly changing as people look for the exits.

Cons

1. Management - the new management team has a maximum personal bonus / profit only mindset. Cost cutting reigns. 2. Constant layoffs. No job is safe. 3. Company has offshored many jobs to India and is in a race to move key underwritering, engineering, claims functions to India as well. Overall, it feels more like a private equity gut job than a publicly traded company.

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Swiss Re Response
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Thank you for your review. We are glad to hear you valued your colleagues and some of the benefits of working at Swiss Re. We also take your concerns about change, stability and ways of working seriously, and we remain focused on ensuring a respectful and supportive environment across our global organisation.
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