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West Bend Insurance Company

Is this your company?

So much hierarchy; So little knowledge. - IT Associate West Bend Insurance Company Employee Review

2.0
6 Apr 2015
Recommend
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Pros

-Fitness Center -Little to no accountability -Continuing education programs

Cons

-IT Managers that don't know the first thing about IT. -Strict ITIL adherence in irrelevant situations. - Senior technical staff requests approval from non-technical staff for technical functions. -Positive reviews showed up after a group pointed out glassdoor to management. -Ridiculous attempts to put metrics on everything, regardless of applicability. -Anonymous surveys are not anonymous. -Work outside your pay grade is just an invitation for more work outside the pay grade. -Managers can take weeks to respond to simple questions. -Personal Development Objectives are reworded and submitted to HR for whatever the manager really needs at the time. -Little understanding of IT prevents management from functionally staffing most areas. -'Special Snowflake' epidemic with so many positions relying on one or two key people. -Management laughs about the "poor sucker" they'll get for overtime. -Basically, if you thought fraternity brothers were the coolest thing ever and you enjoy an unending sea of yesmen and women, you'll like it here.

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Pros

Great office with good cafeteria

Cons

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3.0
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Pros

Modern technology stack with opportunities to work on cloud systems, APIs, distributed architecture, and enterprise modernization efforts. There are smart engineers throughout the organization, and some teams genuinely care about delivering quality solutions. The technical challenges themselves can help accelerate growth in areas like Azure, React, system integration, and large-scale enterprise workflows.

Cons

The environment often felt highly results-driven without enough emphasis on communication clarity, collaboration, or healthy engineering alignment. Requirements and priorities shifted frequently while delivery pressure remained high. Many interactions across leadership and architecture boundaries felt transactional instead of collaborative, which could make engineers feel isolated rather than supported. Success often depended as much on navigating ambiguity and organizational dynamics as technical ability itself.

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