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Xactware Solutions

Now known as Verisk

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Xactware Solutions reviews

3.6

68% would recommend to a friend

(200 total reviews)

Mike Fulton

77% approve of CEO

59% positive business outlook

Xactware Solutions has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 200 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Xactware Solutions employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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200 reviews
1.0
Mar 2, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Decent culture and flexible schedule. Decent PTO, but not as good as other companies are starting to offer - unlimited PTO. Onsite gym. Decent company events even though they get less and less rewarding. Overall they make it easy to come to work. Great stepping stone to a much higher paying career.

Cons

Don't expect to be paid enough to stay here long term. Many developers and QA could and do go elsewhere making $20-40k more. Xactware is owned by Verisk. Verisk CEO makes $100 million+. (Google it) You would think that they value their employees enough to make sure they're financially taken care of, but they don't. They pay wayyyy below industry standard and the most pathetic part of it is that they know they do. The development is a mess here. Processes are constantly changing. Everyone does agile completely differently. Teams aren't aware of what each other are doing. Opportunities are small. You have to apply to 10 different positions just to get no offers while competing against 20 other internal employees.

2.0
May 27, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

• Really good benefits (medical, dental, 401(k) matching, affordable legal plan) • Extra perks for working voluntary OT during hurricane season depending on severity (read: 2017) (gift cards, extra PTO days) • Monthly performance bonus

Cons

• Morale is extremely low. • Cross-department communication is average at best. Support is last to know about things. Even communication within the department needs improvement. • New technicians are hired through a temp agency and are not eligible to receive monthly bonus for at least 6-12 months • You are always at fault for poor customer interactions, regardless if you are really at fault or not. • Meeting service quality requirements is impossible with the workload, and low scores will affect your monthly bonus. There is no consistency in the grading process. • Nepotism is at work in the company, including the support department, and has a negative impact on how the department is run. • Raises do not keep up with the cost of living. • Ideas on ways to improve the department are not considered by management. • No Team Meetings • Products are released to the public before they are ready. • There is minimal training on new products, yet we are expected to support every feature. • Over 18 individual products (each with hundreds of details) we are expected to remember and support with minimal training. • Support department is not trusted to do their jobs, and most issues related to some products have to be escalated after lengthy calls/chats. Tools to resolve some issues are limited to senior technicians and managers only. • Inadequate positive feedback from management; even if there is, it feels obligatory • Small mistakes are not acceptable, even if the mistake is caused by another department. Support department takes the fault for everything. • Technicians are expected to take 3 interactions (chats) at one time. • Policies and procedures are setup in a way to make level 3 technicians fail. Level 3 technicians are expected to be on call 24/7 on a rotating schedule. • The pace of work is incredibly fast. It doesn’t slow down. It’s mentally and physically draining even for someone that has been here for years. • Management gives the impression, ““Even If You Give Your All, Nothing You Do Is Ever Good Enough”

1.0
Aug 15, 2019

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Pros

It's hard to describe the pros of this company when you work in support. You can see that the company is important and has potential, good benefits, steady work, and steady company growth as a whole. You can see that the other departments care about their employees and treat them like human beings. But you cannot experience that in support. In support you are a headcount and you will meet unnecessary guidelines that are twice as strict as other company-wide guidelines. It feels like the support managers are rewarded for making you feel like you are the only person having a hard time. Support management privately tell you, they want to support you, but they too are led by fear. Only one person is allowed to make the decisions so support managers will only do so much. The decision maker believes the support floor is a streamlined machine and if you see an issue, reporting it now makes you the real issue. If you want to work in support, you need to commit to keeping your head down, never suggesting an improvement on a process, never getting sick or you will lose your bonus because it was not planned in advance, and avoiding making any waves at all costs. Be aware you will also be measured at the end of the year and the managers are required to specifically look for unique failures in you so they can rank you on an undefined scale. Every conversation is a mission to find something to hold against you at the end of the year and they will make sure you know that.

Cons

If you are interested in feeling like you are an expendable headcount, apply now. If you are hoping to be demoralized by management (they are just an extension of a hive mind from the top down), apply now. If you would to sit at attention all day trying to juggle 3 customers and 3 chats without direct tools to help customers, apply now If you love to be evaluated by people who haven't done your job and to never be trusted to utilize their expertise to make judgement calls, apply now. If you prefer to make suggestions that could benefit that company, only to be ignored as you are not 'management', then later have management come out with a new idea as though it’s their own, which was the same as your suggestion, apply now. If you don't mind being expected to work through lunch or look down upon, apply now. If you enjoy working in a department ran by fear, apply now. If you prefer to feel like you are never good enough, all accomplishments you achieve were expected to begin with so they are not accomplishments at all, apply now If you don't mind only being told how you can do better, no matter how hard you work, apply now. If you think that your individual skills and capabilities should never be utilized because you are applying for a call center and you should not expect to be seen as anything more than an interaction conveyor belt, apply now If you would like to work for a great company that has several employee development programs and opportunities, except for this department (technical support), apply now. If you wouldn't mind working for a department where that believes in running things as if it is the 1980's, and they would rather spend an entire day trying to figure out who would complain rather than fix the issue, apply here. If you don't mind being seen as just a number, and not human, apply now.

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