Benefitfocus reviews

3.6

63% would recommend to a friend

(995 total reviews)
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Andrew Frend

54% approve of CEO

45% positive business outlook

Benefitfocus has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 995 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Benefitfocus employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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995 reviews
1.0
Sep 30, 2008
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Pros

The company is a good place to get your feet wet as a Software Developer. Also, I believe that you don't know what's good until you've seen the bad. So this is a good place to see the bad. On the other hand, if you can play the game, this is a good company to squeeze. Show them you're worth it and then threaten to quit -- you'll get some nice salary increases if you're worth it. At least they are smart enough to try to hold on to talent. Too bad they wait until you're ready to walk before they start to listen.

Cons

Sales driven development. High high! turnover! Low morale. Clueless management. The sales guy would go out and sell anything (I mean anything to clients). If the client wanted a time machine he would have told them we could do it and expected us to write it! During my tenure there, we had four bosses come and go in as many months.

2.0
Sep 6, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

Benefitfocus has lots of cool people and good engineers. Its technology is also quality with some of the latest technologies being tried. Some parts have good processes for requirements as well.

Cons

The senior management understands how to run a factory and a sales team, but not a software engineering company. The environment is noisy and prone to interruption and it is hard to get stuff done. Work from home is rare to nonexistent. Mainly there just is not an understanding of how to get programmers to do their best work as the focus is relentlessly short term and the work environment is counter to productivity. The stress will damage your health if you aren't ready to deal with a lot of it..

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