Pros
WFH, On-site gym, good co-workers
Cons
Amazing lack of oversight and governance. Knowledge throughout the organization is fractured and poorly dispersed. Managers at directors level and above are out of touch with reality and ultimately overpaid charlatans lacking innovation, strategy or direction. The company benefits immensely by the inelastic demand for health care and the nonprofit structure of its insurance business. Prior to starting with Highmark, I had a negative image of healthcare insurers and sadly, the negativity of my image has only worsened. The bloat in this company is intense and too often the operational aspects of the business screams excess and wasteful. It continues to astonish me how a company such as this, one that is simply a middle man between patients and actual providers of healthcare, can gouge so many while offering no true or necessary product. Their existence is predicated on their ability to draw pricing power to lower cost, yet in reality, the greatest pricing power would be that of the largest possible pool of insurable people (ie the entire nation or a single payer).