QBE reviews

3.9

73% would recommend to a friend

(1,790 total reviews)
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Andrew Horton

85% approve of CEO

70% positive business outlook

QBE has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 1,790 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The QBE 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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2K reviews
2.0
Apr 19, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Pay and benefits (except health insurance) are above standard mostly due to the fact people are hesitant to work for them. They are lured in on the idea that QBE has changed and reviews are outdated - they are not. They are accurate and current. A generous distribution of money is deposited in your 401k above and beyond the matching amount. My account grew nicely. Work life balance is good generally. Very little after hours work depending on your team though. Some teams are hammered hard after hours when on call. Work from home was allowed until recent management opinions waffled again to on-prem exclusivity. Managers and leads may allow work from home one day a week but even then you're assumed to be less effective than in the office. Office amenities are nice. Sun Prairie is undergoing a remodel and love/hate the new environments. If you want to work in a quiet cubicle, this isn't a place for you.

Cons

To advance you are not qualified unless you are anointed by management. Your skills and past experience mean nothing. Technical leadership happens from the bottom up, guerrilla style, to make sure projects success in spite of inexperience and unskilled technical architects. If you aren't careful your work will be plagiarized and passed up to management without credit.

1.0
Jan 8, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Salary, 401k, work from home availability

Cons

Was hired by the old "bait and switch" trick. None of the work or caseload was as they said it would be in the interview. New work was assigned with no training . Lack of communication between depts due to inadequate staffing. Sale of personal lines business in North America has left everyone wondering when the axe will fall.

1.0
Apr 22, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

• Initial promises of competitive pay • Some people that are very knowledgeable and work hard

Cons

• 80% of D-level and up leadership needs to be replaced • Teams constistently understaffed • High turnover rate (like rats fleeing a sinking ship) • Empty promises of good (and much needed) things to come that string employees and departments along for years at a time • Abysmal employee morale • Endless beaurocratic red tape • Company is actively pursuing their goal of moving as many jobs as possible from the US to the offshore center in the Philippines • Inpenetrable D-C suite "boys' club" at NYC HQ. If you're not "in", as in the ones high-fiving each other at the watercooler about the party bus and box seats to the most exclusive events of the year they bought over the weekend on the company's dime, you're disposable and not going to be included in necessary communication or company involvement. • Those same D-C suites are also generally immune from consequences. I've seen them fire project managers, consultants, and lowly analysts without so much as a warning to use as scapegoats for their own mistakes. One long-term consultant whom I'd worked with for years fell victim to this and was booted at only a day's notice and was never paid the $30k in overtime that they had already worked; all because some D-suite messed up and needed someone disposable to take the fall for their mistakes in a position they very obviously didn't have the qualifications to be in. This is a multinational company with the organization of a lemonade stand. Myself, along with so many of my colleagues, are looking for positions elsewhere.

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