Magellan Health Reviews

Pros

Great People
Excellent Benefits
Good Compensation

Cons

Middle management takes the blame for unhappy employees and receives mediocre compensation
While promotions happen it's very political

Pros

good benefit
good team
nice manager
flexible schedule

Cons

micro management
heavy work
not enough people in the department

Advice to Senior Management

n/a

Pros

Work/life balance was the biggest advantage. They try hard to make a positive difference but tend to over promise and under deliver. The senior management really seems to care about their employees; now if they could only get this caring spirit to carry through to the mid level management.

Cons

Constant reorganization and restructuring. Their flexible scheduling is counter balanced with an ever expanding work load. They offer many learning programs but they tend to be centered on basic/ general business skills (eg. effective communication, managing stress, valuing diversity, etc.) while learning job roles, functions and skills tends to be a helter skelter crash course in on-the-job training. If you are fortunate to have a good work associate to help you learn your job, then you are lucky.

Advice to Senior Management

They need less Vice-Presidents and more compentent middle management. They need to really develop a strong job skills training programs. While Senior management really seems to care and listen to lower levels; unfortunately this does not seem to carry beyond the Senior level. The company could really benefit from listening to the needs of all levels of the corporate structure. Most of their Director level management seems to be too over-worked to have time to listen or provide useful direction to the corporate levels below. In summary they have good daily operation level employees and Senior Management, unfortunately their is a significant breakdown in communication between the two groups. Senior Management tries to do a good job of communicating downward, unfortunately the feedback loop is broken. The company has great potential but will have difficulties in realizing it until they really learn to listen (not just hear) the rank and file.

Pros

The people are friendly, the benefits were good. The food was good in the cafeteria. The work life balance was very good. Nice facility.

Cons

Truly a political nightmare, thus the reason for the turnover of the staff. In my career I have moved several data centers, after a new business was acquired. Newer hardware and virtualization techniques would have greatly assisted the 2009 purchase & migration of 8 year old hardware from Covnetry.

Advice to Senior Management

The purchase of Coventry just did not make economic sense. If I was a stock holder the large up front investment would not justify the small ROI.

Pros

Friendly department; good benefits, enjoyed working in healthcare

Cons

Long hours because everything was viewed as a crisis. Management was reactionary instead of proactive.

Advice to Senior Management

Read some good books on work/life balance:)

Pros

A good environment to learn and grow if you’re willing to work hard.

Cons

Not many downsides. However performance expectations can be unrealistic.

Advice to Senior Management

Seems to be growing top heavy.

Pros

Great benefits - pto especially

Cons

Promotions within departments are few and far between unless a position is posted.

Advice to Senior Management

Reward hard-working employees in whatever way possible (time off, raises and promotions)

Pros

Benefit package is good for what you get.

Cons

Management from DC VP down needs to be revamped.
No commuication from management
No support from management
Senior management either ignores or is now aware of how bad thier middle management is.

Advice to Senior Management

Clean house

Pros

cooperative team environment, technology used to develop product

Cons

evaluation process,salary range is very low

Pros

Small to medium company, lesss beuracracy, can get get things done quickly

Cons

Vision needs be shared with all employees