Symetra reviews

. Contempt for employees - lip service from management about the company being 'the place to be' . No longer a good place for work/life balance. Flexible schedules and possibility of working from home have been taken away from a lot of departments. No comp time. . Employees are micro-managed, their professional advice is rarely taken into consideration. . Stressful environment for IT employees are they are expected to do Production Support as well as Development using the Agile/Scrum methodology. . Unreasonable expectations are pressed upon employees, like maintaining a system availability of 99.79%, while no investments are being made into redundant systems, and a less-than-average responsiveness from our outsourced servers service provider. . Pay is lower than the market.

The product lines are each a culture unto themselves. Each product line operates completely differently and separately from each other. Deep divisions between the groups exist. Middle managers do not entertain ideas from their staff. Training is lacking and this is difficult for new employees. New employees must learn where they fit in the pecking order within their group. Employees with seniority are concerned with protecting the territory they've built over the years. The grapevine network is very powerful.