Bad IT Management - Anonymous employee Everest Re Group Employee Review

New IT Management joined 2016 and everything has gone downhill since. They opened many new high level (highly compensated) positions at the top to bring in Leadership, Project Managers, Scrum Masters, Architects from outside the company. On the other end, they have forced out/replaced many existing experienced technical staff and replaced them with cheap offshore consultants (with zero experience) from Infosys Management staff spent all day in meetings with very few people left on the floor to do the actual work. In addition, management came up with so many new processes & procedures (Agile, JIRA, Pillar groups, Architecture Review Board) that has added another layer of overhead to the few technical staff who were doing the actual work. It now takes weeks (if not months) to complete a very simple project. The new IT team are managing their staff using ‘fear’ tactics: first telling employees that they will give out more bad(they call it 'curved') reviews and then threaten to get rid of people with below average reviews. Bonus are reduced because all those new high paying big fishes take money from the pool first. IT consultants are being clamped into desks & environment worse than a call center floor. The result: employees are fed up and moral are low. Everyone is focusing on their own assignments and stopped helping out each other. Projects were delayed and quality of work dropped thanks to the help from Infosys. If you want to join Everest as an engineer, developer, QA, or tech support; please think twice because this company is moving all these positions offshore to Infosys. Management here don’t value these technical skills (easily replaceable in their mind) and eventually and IT department will be left with on-shore management team plus an army of Infosys consultants.