Liberty Mutual Reviews

Pros

There is a very professional atmosphere. Given as much responsibility as you ask for. Given the ability for professional training and growth.

Cons

There can be a lot of red tape and documentation for rudimentary tasks. This extra paper can become very cumbersome and time consuming.

Advice to Senior Management

Remove some of the red tape for very basic tasks. Other than that the day to day activities are as much as you make of them.

Pros

Reliable, consistent, decent pace and workload, business casual, good release management skills, decent business / technology relationship, pension after five years

Cons

Stuffy, beige, preponderance of pheremones

Pros

Many opportunities in a variety of areas - especially Boston. Fair salary. Great development and training if you want it. Strong company - no layoffs despite recession.

Cons

Focus on hiring from outside with MBA programs - sometimes overlook internal candidates.

Pros

advancement opportunity and great pay

Cons

large company sometimes not aware of all the happenings

Advice to Senior Management

More roundtable to share information

Pros

-professional environment
-good work/life balance

Cons

Lack communication from senior mgmt

Pros

Fair compensation
Inspiring mission and creed
Increasingly hiring bright and talented people

Cons

Inconsistency across the organization in terms of management abilities, opportunities (both for advancement and for pursuing advanced degrees) and adhering to the "we treat people with dignity and respect" mantra. A culture of fear and a total disregard for the needs of working parents (there is no maternity leave policy, no back-up daycare, and no flexible work arrangements in many areas)

Advice to Senior Management

Delve into employee survey results and eliminate managers who don't treat their people with dignity and respect - the answers are there. Ensure managers consistently apply policiesand acknowledge populations like working mothers and young employees in your policies. Any "responsible" company should have a maternity leave policy!

Pros

Good pay, great opportunity due advancement. Company pays for education and training. It's a global organization so there are many opportunities to relocate.

Cons

Very large company so communication isn't the best. Pay for performance isn't always the case especially when the company isn't doing well.

Pros

You do not have to constantly worry about lay offs. Liberty is generally pretty stable in terms of employment. In the IT side, there are many different departments and technologies to work with.

Cons

Unless you are fascinated by the ins and outs of insurance, you won't have much interest in the business side of things.

Advice to Senior Management

They know what they're doing.

Pros

great career advancement opportunity, great salary, great benefits, great internal training, superior colleagues, co-workers and supervisors are easy to get along with, supervisors have genuine concern about employees, co-workers care about one another, co-workers do not gossip much compared to other companies, Liberty Mutual offers excellent training using the latest online training technologies, pay is fabulous and fair, clients are friendly/professional

Cons

Billable hours and work load balance: my group gave us a minimum number of billable hours we had to attain for assigned clients, measuring our success by that. Some people attain more than enough billable hours, but others are meeting their client needs perfectly with all account requirements up to date. In other words, we are told by superiors to run reports just to reach minimum billable hour quotas if we have nothing else to do on accounts. Others have too many billable hours imposed on them and cannot keep up with the work load, and hence, have to give up going on vacation because their work loads are so packed. Some have to reach the minimum number of billable hours and miss taking earned vacation time because if they do not reach the minimum, they get canned.

Advice to Senior Management

Get rid of billable hours (this only stresses employees out in a negative manner,) distribute work loads more evenly, make sure employees take time off they earn

Pros

Good training in customer service.Good start up pay.Good co workers.Nice building.Nice parking lot and security staff.

Cons

Employee scores are manipulated in order to let go employees instead of laying off.Temp employees are now being implemented in order to cut costs. If you are popular with management regardless of your performance,you will keep this job and even move up if you can stand to stay.

Advice to Senior Management

How you treat your employees will inevitably spill over onto your customer base. Good karma does
not exclude corporations in the long run.