Not a place to build careers - Disability Specialist Unum Employee Review

2.0
Oct 8, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

Unum has excellent health, vision, and dental care packages. The PTO is pretty generous. However the actually salary is below industry standard

Cons

Working at Unum is a very grueling task especially for a DBS. Unum is slow to promote and the the career path is pretty terrible. Some of the managers are incompenent and only care about their numbers. Sadly really intelligent people at Unum end up leaving because of the lack of opprotunities avaliable. The same people are the ones who get recognized. The pay doesn't reflect the work. Pesronally I feel as though Unum doens't recognize talent. DBS are at the bottom of the totem pole at this company even though we are the ones doing the most work.

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