Everest Re Group reviews

The IT morale at Everest is at an all time low. You have employees that have been there 20+ years leaving, and some of them not even having a job lined up yet, but they just can't take the stress. The new CIO is more concerned with making the CEO happy than keeping his team (IT) happy. He has told all of IT in a department meeting that they everyone's performance rating is as a 2 (needs improvement) for 2017 and until you prove otherwise, you will be a 2. He published a slide deck for the CEO on all the things he changed in his first 100 days, (And no the CIO is not Donald Trump) Since he arrived all openings are to be filled from the outside and there are no promotions within. Unless you are applying for your dream position, be cautious as Everest could be a career killer. There are a ton of new projects kicking off, but the project deadlines are just ridiculous. You have the same people working on 12 projects which are all priority and have to be completed by tomorrow. The VP's are afraid to tell the CIO it cant be done for fear of losing their jobs, so they tell the employees to stay late, come in early, work weekends, and get it done in any means possible. 3 VP's have left since this all started. A contract was signed for over 100 off shore resources. It is to early to tell what that will mean to full time employees. Be cautious accepting a position in IT and make sure to ask the hiring manager all of your questions including why the position was not filled from within.

I would describe this company as a guy that is 55+ years old, who claimed that he had achieved a lot in the past and felt very proud of himself and deserve respect from outside world. Yet in other people’s eyes he is walking wobbly and slowly down hills and could not figure things out properly and promptly and keep himself updated. 1. Flat organization: You stay at the level when you were hired and it is very hard to get promoted. Lower level staffs have no better choice except for exiting outside after a few years of service, regardless of your performance rating. Management has no intention to help people grow and they try to limit their reportees by playing political tricks in order not to be threatened by talented and capable individuals. 2. Redundant and incompetent middle management: There are many managers that have been with the company for 10-20 years or even longer. They are all in the company’s pension plan and because they can not get promoted, they only want to do minimal work to keep their position safe until retirement. In order to reach that goal, they become very political and good at pushing things up to their supervisors, out to their new colleagues/ peer group and down to their reportees. All they want is just not doing anything wrong to protect themselves instead of making progress at work and get things done. Some managers even said they would not be able to find any same level jobs if they leave the company and they have to stay for the rest of their career. 3. Reluctant to changes and improvements: Middle management is very afraid of changes of work papers, procedures, policies, systems and everything you can imagine. If the idea of change comes from upper management, they complain hard. If the idea of change comes from their peer co-workers and reportees, they try to hint them to stopping making trouble by not co-operating, putting things on the side or laughing in people’s back. 4. Toxic working environment: A very common scene in this company: A and B get together complain about C, and 30 minutes later, B and C get together complain about A. And the next day, A and C get together complain about B. The content they are complaining may not even be work-related. But if you do not complain together with them, they say you are not getting along well with them because you do not want to talk to them. A lot of time was wasted in this type of chat.