It became unbearable - Anonymous employee Chubb Employee Review

2.0
Apr 22, 2016
Anonymous employee
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Pros

I was an employee at Chubb for six years prior to the ACE acquisition. It was not perfect, but it offered very good work-life balance, interesting work, leaders who cared about their employees and a legacy of excellent customer service.

Cons

The ACE acquisition completely changed the culture, morale and stress level for the worst. The best leaders were let go and many of the worst were retained and even promoted. ACE had a notoriously employee-unfriendly culture and high stress levels. For some reason, they are proud of this. There was no attempt to try to bring the best of Chubb and the best of ACE together. It was let's get rid of anything good at Chubb and keep all the bad qualities of ACE. I left. I have no regrets about it.

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