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Risk Management Solutions
2.9 of 5 73 reviews
www.rms.com Newark, CA 1000 to 5000 Employees
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62% Approve of the CEO

Risk Management Solutions President Hemant Shah

Hemant Shah

(48 ratings)

52% of employees recommend this company to a friend
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Current Employee – been working at Risk Management Solutions

ProsGet your hands on experience in latest technologies. You can actually work on NextGen application which is deployed in Cloud.

ConsNot much process oriented. You will feel that very less time is spent on designing, because the project requirements are not properly defined

Advice to Senior ManagementPlease work with Employees

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

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Current Employee – been working at Risk Management Solutions full-time

ProsGood teamwork, but only within your own team. Lots of things to learn in model development site. Salaries and benefits tolerable. Good location away from much of the gridlocked parts of the Bay. Parent company seems well invested but still hands off.

ConsReorg after reorg. Massive failure to communicate between departments. Company moving forward so fast it is leaving many teams behind. Often unreasonable deadlines. Politics are terrible.

CEO is nice guy, but lacks ability to maintain course more than a year. Company seems like it has ADHD and is not on any meds for it.

Advice to Senior ManagementStop the reorgs. Stop dividing up the company into so many "teams" that do not communicate or know what each other is doing or what the needs are of your core employees/teams.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

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Newark, CA

Current Employee – been working at Risk Management Solutions full-time for more than a year

ProsIntelligent people, nice facility, interesting work.

ConsToo much work, unrealistic deadlines add stress all around.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

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Newark, CA

Current Employee – been working at Risk Management Solutions full-time

ProsQualified and talented staff, pretty good benefits, flexible hours, decent location

ConsToo many reorgs in the past few years, lots of politics, compensation not so good, management self-centered and uncaring when it comes to retaining old good people.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

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Newark, CA

Former Employee – worked at Risk Management Solutions

ProsNot a bad place to build up work experience for a fresh-out-of-college. Need to move on to seek a place where one can grow.

Consmanagement is disorganized and somewhat confused

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Newark, CA

Former Employee – worked at Risk Management Solutions

ProsCollegiate environment with good benefits

ConsJunior staff demotivated due to comp issues

Advice to Senior ManagementContinue to deepen the senior management ranks; stop restructuring every few months

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

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Newark, CA

Former Employee – worked at Risk Management Solutions

ProsInteresting line of business (catastrophe risk management). Well educated people and overall nice. Fair compensation. Good benefits. Respect for work-life balance.

ConsJobs are often boring and repetitive. No proper use of people's skills and education. Managers with technical background but lacking people skills and basic general knowledge. Too many approximations and lack of quality in the products. Advancement and promotions are limited.

Advice to Senior ManagementDon't let RMS become a factory. Mind more for product quality. Diversify RMS knowledge base. Offer more opportunities for growth.

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Newark, CA

Current Employee – been working at Risk Management Solutions

ProsLots of interesting work that brings the science of catastrophe modeling into the underwriting business in the last 20 years.

ConsBad talent management, salary and bonus up to manager's preference, and often wrong people placed to jobs they don't fit.

Advice to Senior ManagementCan use better salary to hire more people of better skills so as not to stray from the right direction of technology and business development.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

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Current Employee – been working at Risk Management Solutions

ProsVery interesting company with an intelligent work force

Consvery little opportunity to advance from within the company. we need a more sophisicated management team

Advice to Senior Managementset attainable goals and foster a more inclusive, transparant work environment

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

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Current Employee – been working at Risk Management Solutions full-time for more than 7 years

ProsHave very strong plans for the future, albeit bit late in terms of decision to bring in latest technology.

ConsFrequent re-orgs are spelling dissatisfaction, unclear roles and responsibilities adding to the chaos. No genuine effort to develop and grown people from within who have been very loyal and have been putting good efforts.

Advice to Senior ManagementIn current turbulent and transiting times, Keep your employees happy, Company will be happier and see greater success than ever.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

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