Highmark reviews

3.1

41% would recommend to a friend

(638 total reviews)

Deborah L. Rice-Johnson

56% approve of CEO

43% positive business outlook

Highmark has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 638 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Highmark employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Insurance industry (3.6 stars).

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638 reviews
1.0
Apr 20, 2016

Trust Thrown Out the Window!!!

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Honestly, I can't think of any - at least not anymore. I used to, but those days are long gone since the Holmberg and Ray era.

Cons

1. Total lack of trust. One cannot trust anything that comes out of corporate executives' mouths at Highmark. They will lie to you straight-face. When one asks a reasonable question to draw attention to a flaw in leadership, the immediate response is, "Perhaps you do not belong here." They seem to think they are immune from being questioned. 2. No loyalty. They will look for any excuse to get rid of senior personnel and bring in two college students who they can mold into their mentality. Almost like the company is being taken over as in Invasion of the Body Snatchers. 3. No concept of morale-building by leadership. In fact, I feel quite awkward calling them "leadership" because the executives have no concept of that. 4. If you are looking for a company to grow with, I'd stay away from Highmark because under the current regime, it's not going to last much longer - guarantee it.

2.0
Jan 10, 2017

All about the Benjamins...not so much the employees

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Few and far between...i guess the pay is good (but in decline).

Cons

Manifest Destiny!! We haven't perfected a product for one client, but lets keep selling to other clients! Senior Management agrees to terms (only seeing dollar signs) but refuses to consider the workload and time activities will ACTUALLY take. Probably because they are ignorant to how the work gets done. Then individual contributors are the employees dumped on, often agressively, to complete the work. Mandatory overtime anybody?! Work Christmas Day and New Year's day, we only pretend to believe in work/life balance. All that matters is bottomline so upper management can get their bonus.

1.0
Jan 11, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

Average pay. Great co-workers.

Cons

Oh where to start- Incompetent and dissilusioned senior management. TOO many managers and project managers, not one of which is interested in HOW things get done, just that they magically GET done on unrealistic timelines. Highmark will not off you a future, in the past five years they have laid off thousa ds, ended pensions, reduced 401k matching, and outsource as much as they can to India. They proclaim "trust working together" as a top idealology, which is a joke as you can't trust most anyone in charge. If you work in Camp Hill, keep a wary eye, in 5 more years it is unlikely that you will still be there as they are surreptitiously moving everything to Pittsburgh.

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