Verisk reviews

3.8

78% would recommend to a friend

(1,529 total reviews)
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Lee Shavel

82% approve of CEO

68% positive business outlook

Verisk has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 1,529 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Verisk employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.7 stars).

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3.0
May 13, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Stock options if you joined the company at the right time, good flex time and work life balance

Cons

Low pay, slow promotions, no frills

4.0
Mar 24, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

great benefits, great compensation, great perks, bonuses, medical, dental, 401(k)... you get to work with the "real" stuff, as they have enough muscle to hire and subscribe to the best. Good chances of advancing, moving horizontally and vertically throughout the company. Great learning opportunities, and anything employee-oriented... they have over 90% retention rate, and people stay there for a long time, some the whole career.

Cons

it's an insurance software/services company, so it has inherent insurance industry downfalls: inert--things happen slowly, and managers are hard to sway towards new directions. Then again, it's a con of any large company, so Verisk is no different.

3.0
Mar 20, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

* Excellent place to work if you’re looking for a great work/life balance. * Smart & Friendly staff allows for great working relationships and potential for friendships that extend outside work * Stable and Financially secure company with excellent long term growth plans and opportunities * Ability to learn, with educational reimbursements available for job training or graduate studies * Early office closing around major holidays. * Efforts to modernize office environment, technology, tools and best practices.

Cons

* Hold more opportunities for collaboration between leaders and employees. Felt out of the loop and disconnected with senior management. Senior management operates in a 2nd set of "locked/closed doors". * Heard lots about the available cash flow and available cash within business (to invest, acquire etc.) but purse strings are held sometimes too tight and provide perception that it’s all talk and little action. *Terrible at communicating to employees. Difficult executing vision leads to aggressive action or lack of action or confusion over what to do. * Over my tenure, I started to feel undervalued and not appreciated. Very much taken for granted and quickly grew out of role with no place to move within organization or plan being offered to grow. I did attempt to open a dialogue but I don’t feel it was taken seriously. * Pay and performance were not balanced. Leaders have been unclear on how to present the benefits of the program other than to say "It's to treat compensation more fairly and not reward those who have stayed with the company for an extended period.". This has resulted in talent leaving the organization and has created large gaps. * Lack of Information Technology team and overall investment in technology. They keep cutting IT folks and reorganizing. Technology projects take longer to deliver, have difficulty meeting expectations and therefore suffer with a reduced set of deliverables and cost overruns. * Due to a stagnant refresh of some technologies, I started to see competing technology and options and a shift in management focus to the hot tools of the week. No cohesive single-sign in or larger narrative is being written which results in business unit after business unit attempting the same projects within their teams with either marginal success or no success.

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