Unsuccessfully Trying to be a Tech Company - Senior Software Developer Allstate Employee Review

2.0
Aug 30, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- has a "tech company" vibe - free breakfast - lots of snacks - some smart people

Cons

A lot of the engineers are lazy. They're not looking for new ways to do things. They only do things the way things are set at AllState. This is not a good mindset for engineers to have at an insurance company trying to be a tech company. Granted, there are a couple engineers who are decent, but I've worked with engineers with 7+ years of experience at AllState who are significantly worse engineers than engineers I've worked with in the past with 3-5 years of experience. On top of lazy engineers, there is a MAJOR disconnect between business and engineering. Nobody on the business side seems to have a technical background, and if they do, it's very minimal and nobody understands the proper stages of a SDLC. This leads to a product being built without having a proper planning and design phase, which makes an application's success rate plummet and also makes scaling an application up near impossible. I've seen applications that have taken years to build turn out worse than an application a senior computer science engineering student had built in a semester.

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Cons

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Pros

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Cons

- I haven't been micromanage this bad since working in a call center!!! - the tools you use to do your job feels like micromanagement. Its very slow moving as well. Every thing takes so long to load while you're trying to speed through your work. - you will receive an email about every single little thing you did wrong - you will not receive praise for anything - you will need to protect yourself by maintaining documentation of what was asked of you, because it will be later explained that it doesn't matter what was said, you should have researched it yourself (even when you're brand new). - when they are wronf about a reprimand they just gave you, don't expect a reply or an apology - they will make sudden changes that severely impacts your job at a moments notice and wonder why you are behind - I was advised a manageable workload is 20-30 claims. My whole team had 90+ claims. - The turn over rate is exceptionally high. Over the course of a year I started 7 people quit within. 3 additional people were fired. - you're going to beg for help and they aren't going to help you, and they are going to tell you that YOU are the problem. - currently, all the hires are being shielded from the hot mess. They are trying to change things by pushing all the people who suffered through the mess they created to put a positive spin on the job and I guess preserve moral. - the job itself wouldnt be difficult (because the work is relatively easy), but its VERY disorganized. You will feel like you work in a call center, but this time, you have to return voicemails, emails and text messages. - 2nd worse job experience in my entire life - AND THE PAY IS BELOW INDUSTTY STANDARDS!!! There are no bonuses.

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