If you can get a decent manager, you’re lucky - Business Systems Analyst Relias Employee Review

1.0
Nov 17, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Employer paid taxes and health benefits

Cons

Some of the recent VPs hired across marketing are absolutely horrendous. While that is not my focus, the individuals on that team I am close with tell horrifying stories. I have had a few first hand accounts myself with the person of question. It’s getting extremely bad. I do want to echo one of the latest reviews that states how Relias should stop focusing so much on employees ‘colors’ from a personality test. It is absolutely being weapon used and it is increasingly astonishing how widely that behavior is tolerated. The only way to get a raise is to move departments. So that means you have loads of people constantly moving to roles that they are TRULY not qualified for. It’s as simple as that. It’s affecting the company at large. Yet HR loves to boast a 20% yearly transfer and promotion rate! It HAS to be mostly transfers. People who have started in the last year and a half/two years are always astonished at how many meetings there are at this company. What’s even more astonishing is how hard it is to get any type of actual work done. The meetings are pointless and leadership is oblivious.

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5.0
Apr 18, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Amazing corporate culture Leadership listened to engineering on tools, technology stack, etc Actual product ownership, including necessary input and control (instead of being told you own a product and then not given the necessary access or tools to maintain it)

Cons

Hiring process involved psychological screening with a lot of implicit bias, almost like an IQ test. On the plus side, I've been told they discontinued its use after that was pointed out.

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3.0
Jul 25, 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Relias has a strong engineering and technology culture. The technology organization is led by leadership recruited from a large, well known technology company, and that shows up in the operating rigor, the quality of the technical decisions, and the caliber of the leadership bench. The leaders here are experienced and capable, the problems are interesting, and there is real investment in AI as well as meaningful opportunity for personal growth. If you care about doing serious technical work alongside people who know what they are doing, this is a good place to be.

Cons

Trust in the product and sales organizations has eroded considerably. There has been a steady stream of senior leadership departures, and the sales organization has missed its targets every single year, which is a pattern rather than a bad quarter and one that nobody seems willing to confront directly. Product direction changes so frequently and with so little clarity that it becomes difficult to build anything with conviction, and the two problems feed each other, because a shifting roadmap makes it easy to explain away yet another year of missed numbers. The most serious problem, however, is compensation. Pay sits well behind the Insiders benchmark, and the gap widens the more senior and more experienced you are, which means the people carrying the most scope and accountability are the ones being underpaid by the largest margin. The compensation policy has not kept pace with the market, and merit cycles have not closed the gap in any meaningful way, so the shortfall compounds year over year rather than correcting itself. The practical consequence is that the company continues to attract strong technical talent and then quietly loses it, because experienced leaders eventually discover they can earn substantially more elsewhere for the same or lesser scope. Until the compensation philosophy is brought in line with the market, the engineering culture the company has worked hard to build will keep being undermined by the simple economics of staying.

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