Pros
1) The biggest pro is that you can work from home, not just during this pandemic but all the time. 2) Coworkers are very helpful and supportive. Everyone steps up to help others and make sure no one falls behind on their work. 3) No weekends/holidays 4) Pay is good and you start with 19 days PTO per year, you get 5 more days once you hit your 5 year anniversary. 5) Small raises and bonuses every year
Cons
This is one of the worst companies I worked for, both as a nurse and before becoming a nurse. It's so bad here that I'm leaving soon for a job that will pay me $20,000 less per year. That's how bad this place is. I would rather take less pay and be where my manager/employer respects me. Management is only there to tell you how corporate is mad at you, not to actually manage and develop you. I was told by my direct manager that I would be able to move up if I didn't have a reasonable accommodation for a disability. I wonder how else they are discriminating against people. Management is incompetent. I guess that's a prerequisite for being a manager here. They either do not return your emails or they try to make you feel stupid for asking anything. In the rare event they do respond to you, they give you blatantly incorrect answers and aren't open to their staff correcting them. We have constant meetings for things that could be said via email which wastes so much time. Then we're asked why we can't meet productivity. Well, that's because we have at least 2 meetings or trainings per day. Come on now. We are constantly short staffed. They are quick to hire more doctors but the nurses are so unimportant that we've been working short for years. But they expect us to get all the work done. CULTURAL CONVERSATIONS: This is the worst. Every day, we have to have a long meeting about sharing our feelings and they expect us to share our personal lives (nope). We were given a choice between career development and the cultural conversations. Those of us who chose career development were lied to, there was never a choice. Everyone has to do these ridiculous conversations and there is absolutely no career development program. If there are system issues, the company will mandate you stay on late until everything is done. It's not my fault you don't want to invest in updated systems. Why should I have to work until 8pm or 9pm? I do have a life outside of Anthem. Inaccurate workflows: many workflows are outdated. When we follow what we have, we're told how bad we've done and how angry corporate is at us. Well, let corporate try to do this with being severely understaffed. During the early stages of the pandemic, while other companies were helping their staff, Anthem is running reports to see how long we've been inactive on our computers and what websites we went to. We had to do online schooling for our kids, we had absolutely no choice. Schools were closed. We got calls from our manager asking us about our idle time despite our regular work being suspended by the state (we had no work to do for 3 months). Do they understand that we were all forced into this situation? No one chose this. It would be nice if they had a little understanding and compassion for the average working person who's just trying to make the best of this situation. Other companies were giving their staff free childcare hours from that major babysitting site, they were reimbursing for office supplies. Not Anthem. We got chastised for having to help our kids with online schooling and we got more and more reports ran to see how we're doing. Finally, the employee stock option. We get a discount on Anthem's stocks which come out of our checks after taxes. Anthem does not give us any stocks or contribute in any way. However, they still have a blackout of 12 months before you can sell the stocks. But this is my money, not yours. You didn't finance it like other companies do. Why are you telling me I can't access my own money? If you think where you're at is bad, please re-read my review and see if your job is really that bad. Hold out for something better, there are places better than Anthem