Capital Insurance Group reviews

Low salary and limited compensation for working after hours and weekends Very little career growth and incentives that help employees develop their skills and build a successful career Company has a High turnover rate and the positions are not being filled which puts stress on the rest of the employees Poor management with very minimal technical understanding of the technologies and the processes involved in projects and solutions. Micromanagement of tasks, timesheets, and SLA requirements Too much politics between departments and favoritism amongst employees. Management like to stick together Business folks have more respect from management than IT.

CIG is an old school insurance company, regardless of what management advertises. This company is far from transforming into a modern company with today's technology, practices, and culture. As an old school company, the only department that gets all the attention and have fair compensation is the business department. The IT department has many problems that leads to a very high turnaround rate, I will try to list them here: - IT employees are at best second class employees here, they can give no input even on technical aspect of projects. - Business comes up with due date and projects on their own, without any knowledge of the system or team capacity for the project. - Salaries are at least 60% under the market, I have seen some that were over 75% underpaid. - Most promotions are done without any pay raise, any documentation what so ever. - Work culture is far from ideal, management cares more about you showing that you are busy than actually being productive and adding value. - Business Analysts usually run the teams and sprints, PMs do nothing at all, just empty promises about career goals, improvements, etc. - Career development DOES NOT EXIST at CIG, a total career killer. - Management gives you empty promises about your goals and career which never happens or even follow up on. - Promotions are based on favoritism more than tenure or skill level. Jump promotions from BA to PM for multiple associates who cannot even run a meeting, let alone managing a team! Promoting QAs with no coding experience to SDET! Promoting tech support (network specialist) staff to SENIOR system engineer without the required knowledge and the list goes on. - CIG does not have any technical leads and architecture lead, there is no unified practice and process. - Almost everything is handled manually. They are so concerned about security that they have blocked almost all good online resources and automation tools which is actually having a negative effect on productivity. Benefits are a joke at CIG, medical plan is ok, just ok. There is a ridiculous ESOP plan which we used to call "Live Poor, Die Rich" plan!