Assurant reviews

Micro Management. Director Level manages "at arms length" and NEVER tries to get to know the clunky job functions and what it takes to actually implement initiatives. Other people can make mistake after mistake after mistake and the ones that pay the price are the people that have to clean up THEIR MESS. If in sales, the sales compensation document you sign isn't worth the paper it's written on. Assurant is obsessed with the "carrot and stick" method of sales management. The goals, while barely achievable, if achieved will be changed at the last minute and you WILL NOT be paid, because the terms of the agreement are changed at the last minute. There they go, pulling up the stick so you can't actually have the carrot. Silly wabbit.

This company sure has been through a lot. I survived 5 interesting years in hell here, but finally had to tap-out. The company was poorly run prior to the acquisition. -There's not time here for the giant list of cons I could make for those years, but let me just say, they conducted 3 layoffs in less than one year's time from December 2011 to October of 2012. So that should tell you some things. Oh, and that first one was poorly planned. Nothing says "we care about you" more than letting 160+ folks go two weeks before Christmas, with no prior warning to the masses that there was even anything wrong with the company financially. Since the Assurant acquisition in October of 2013, I've seen the parent company and old FAS working together to try to make positive change. I could also see the natural struggles that come with that too. Currently, the struggles are overriding the progress. There are too many of the old executives and upper management still holding their positions. The management team needs to rolled, and Assurant needs to lay down the hammer. There is so much dysfunction at all levels and across all departments, I don't know how the company is still operating. It makes me dizzy when I think about it, really. To wrap this up I'll throw about a few descriptive terms to summarize the experience shared by many there: Dysfunctional, Executives are out for themselves and not a cohesive team, all kinds of things are hidden from the newly appointed Managing Director, pay is low across all positions whether entry level or managerial, general staff is under educated at time of hire, and under trained/under prepared for the difficult and important job they are given, poor relations with vendor network, IT problems.