A great place to work, as long as you like being the product of a cookie cutter.
Pros
Great benefits - if you're allowed to use them. There is flex-time, for some people. There is work-at-home possibility, for some people. But it all depends on your manager. If your manager doesn't like you - you don't get the benefit. If your manger likes you, you basically get to do whatever you want. That said, 23+ days of PTO is nice - if you can use it. The EAP system is also very nice if you know how to use it, and I have and it was beneficial. If you currently work at Magellan look more into it - it can help.
Cons
It is a very religious environment, and that is never good - unless you work at a church. There is a lot of favoritism based on whether or not you're friends with certain management individuals. They would rather work their programmers to death than hire more of them - despite getting new companies, new products, and having a surplus of cash. They don't pay the programmers well either - most programmers leave Magellan for other places that pay much more. The demand increases and they keep the same couple dozen programmers, who seem to all have health issues due to being stressed and over worked. They'll get more people in other departments but they seem to forget that without the information delivery part of the equation they have nothing to offer their clients to show that they're actually doing anything for them. They also seem to want all of their programmers to have the same skills and be able to take up the slack for any other programmer - hence the cookie cutter reference. This doesn't work with programmers, they're a unique breed and have specialties for a reason. If you don't have a passion for something you may still be able to do the work but you won't be able to be stellar at it, but that doesn't seem to matter. Rather than have a few people who are specialists in a lot of areas they want everyone to be exactly the same. Yet they also want people to innovate and advance their skills, it's a catch-22. That said, there was a change in management in October 2008 that changed the programmer/analyst group from a very functional, vital, and moral filled area into a demoralized pit of sick workers. It's a real shame. At this point in time I can't recommend working here, hopefully that will change at some point.
