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West Bend Insurance Company

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If time travel is what you are looking for in IT ; this is the place : Average working Hours /Week is 55 to 58 Hours - Anonymous employee West Bend Insurance Company Employee Review

1.0
Feb 21, 2015
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Good Salary, Benefits, Campus, Cafeteria

Cons

Very poor Management in IT with some inexperienced middle management and a few arrogant directors who are not qualified to be in that position. West bend's IT Management don't believe in their Fulltime employees at all; you will be treated real badly; they only believe in the 3rd party contractor's. So as a full time employee; If I need to put in your view in front of the management; the best way is to provide the information to the 3rd party contractor and let them present to the management;... So you can imagine how worst your situation will be as a Fulltime employee. They have employee appreciation programs like West bend way and Rise to IT .... Please...Please stop these ; this is a very demotivating to the actual people who are contributing to the IT.. In the last 1 year in the IT; I have never seen a single case where the real talent is appreciated with these programs. I have several examples where they have given this award to people who has created outages and losses and created 100's or more hours of headache ; but was given the award saying that "they did it with a smile" ...They call it West bend Way; so you can imagine the rest

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Pros

Modern technology stack with opportunities to work on cloud systems, APIs, distributed architecture, and enterprise modernization efforts. There are smart engineers throughout the organization, and some teams genuinely care about delivering quality solutions. The technical challenges themselves can help accelerate growth in areas like Azure, React, system integration, and large-scale enterprise workflows.

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The environment often felt highly results-driven without enough emphasis on communication clarity, collaboration, or healthy engineering alignment. Requirements and priorities shifted frequently while delivery pressure remained high. Many interactions across leadership and architecture boundaries felt transactional instead of collaborative, which could make engineers feel isolated rather than supported. Success often depended as much on navigating ambiguity and organizational dynamics as technical ability itself.

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