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American Family Insurance

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Lack Of Direction / Conviction - Applications Development Engineer American Family Insurance Employee Review

3.0
May 11, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

People are generally quite pleasant. Fairly laid back environment for the most part. I get to work remotely for the foreseeable future. Opportunity for interesting work. This depends on your situation, I'm definitely lucky in this department compared to some of my colleagues.

Cons

Management refuses to fire people who are literally useless Too much lazy thinking Lack of alignment. Too much reliance on offshore contractors instead of building a good engineering culture in house. Massive amounts of technical debt that will never be eradicated because leadership ignores it and plenty of people are too incompetent to deal with it. I feel like laziness and avoidance of difficult problems is the biggest issue with engineering at AmFam. Management wants simple solutions wrapped up for them that they don't have to digest or augment at all. Let's just top down apply SAFE dogmatically and ignore cases where it doesn't work. Let's also just throw a ton of contractors at our development problems while ignoring that they aren't doing a good job and are making the system worse. Also, let's just have no accountability and pretend that everyone is equally capable when a good portion of the employee base is either just unwilling to learn or does not have the skills required to get the job done.

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Pros

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Cons

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Pros

Hired as remote, wonderful manager who encourages and aids career growth. My team is fantastic, the work life balance & flexibility works very well for me.

Cons

Felt like a bait & switch situation pretty soon after being hired, we were then told that we will be hybrid 50% of the time in office. Those of us who were hired as remote were required to live within 30-50 miles of an office are required to be in office 10 days a month starting this fall. But some were hired that live outside those parameters? So that requirement ended up not being true? The timing of it felt planned for my onboarding group I guess. And when complaints aired (obviously) upper management held forums in which they basically said “we gave you enough of a heads up, nothing you say is impacting our decision.” That’s really the only thing that has bothered me working here. We’ll see how it goes in the fall!

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