Decent pay, good benefits, poor work - Senior Software Engineer Unum Employee Review

2.0
Jan 27, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Pay is decent, in particular given the location. Benefits such as health insurance (for the whole family) and pension contributions are among the best available.

Cons

This is not a tech company, despite their best efforts to look like one. Reward and recognition are not correlated with good work, but rather with saying the right things, agreeing with the right people, and not disagreeing with the wrong people. Company structure is very hierarchical and very siloed. It's hard to get things done without lots of red tape. Annual leave starts at 22 days and reaches 25 after five years of employment. Not the absolute minimum, but also not much more. Flexibility is mostly a one-way street: Depending on your team or role, you might need to give up quite a few weekend days, for free. There is no compensation formally in place for weekend work - "come in late on Monday" is normally the best you can hope for. This is hit and miss, though, as it very much depends on your manager. There's an undertone of a lack of professionalism throughout the company, particularly at management level. Several of the managers (and indeed others) have never worked anywhere else and are where they are because they have prioritised getting promoted over delivering quality work. Information flows primarily through gossip.

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Cons

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Cons

Overworked like crazy, I was hired a few months ago but am already looking for something else, due to the stress and constant feeling of “wow finally i think im starting to get this” all to be reminded when submitting your tasks for mentor review you either did it right or have to redo the whole entire thing from scratch that is if your mentor is even available. Depending on your mentor as well that can really damper your experience and overall understanding. Training could have been done a lot better initially with constant exposure to different task types and different material. For example Medical certifications could have been shown over and over again for us to understand if it’s complete, incomplete and what significant health condition it would be for coding. With other team members also leaving as training ended and senior team members leaving once we got assigned the writing was on the wall. I really wanted to give Unum a shot and really try to see myself here, maybe it’s just the position of leave specialist or maybe all the jobs are the same, still can’t help but wonder if another position would’ve suited me better if they allowed role transfers sooner instead of waiting a minimum full year.

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