PMI Group Reviews

Pros

Great employees, good pay, awesome vacation package (4 weeks at the door), work life balance.
They encourage transfers between departments for professional growth.

Cons

It's a boys' club, men are preferred for promotions over women.

Advice to Senior Management

Company is in run off, so I don't think it matters.

Pros

Large organization with mixed management ability

Cons

Small minded execs without taking a stand on issues

Advice to Senior Management

Can't put in writing

Pros

Great people
Challenging projects
Great benefits and pay
Good communication from senior management
Many opportunities to move upward within team or with other teams

Cons

Mortgage industry down turn impacted many of the exciting growth related projects that were in planning stages. Project funding slowed down.

Pros

* People (the pee-ons) are generally nice
* Decent benefits

Cons

* No innovation
* Conservative
* Lack of creativity
* Workload is unmanageable due to lazy Directors that lacks leadership skills
* Lack of autonomy and trust; management rather hear recommendations from expensive consultants/vendors than own employees
* Field sales driven rather than customer driven
* Internal conflicts between management

Advice to Senior Management

Instead of laying off people that actually do the work, maybe the execs ought to get rid of some of the lazy sr. management and directors.

Board of Directors should be ashamed of themselves for driving the company to the ground.

Pros

Great work environment in tough economical times. People are always thinking out of the box to get the job done no matter what it takes.

Cons

Only cons are that this is a bad business to be in the current economy.

Advice to Senior Management

keep the ship afloat

Pros

Great work life balance, and flexible schedule. People are nice and friendly.

Cons

There isn't any incentive to go the extra mile. Employees are promoted based on senority.

Advice to Senior Management

Management needs to raise expectations, standards and have clear communication with employees.

Pros

I loved this company and the job more than life itself. I am devastated that they downsized and eliminated my position and area. I had been meeting and exceeding my goals each month.

Cons

They just had a lay off and an early retirement

Advice to Senior Management

Instead of having peoples jobs eliminated, comissions should have been eliminated until the company regained profitability . the base salary was good and the staff you had would have continued to grow the company.

Pros

Excellent coworkers, excluding the management.

Cons

To many micro managers. (Claims Manager)

Advice to Senior Management

Seek new Claims manager.

Pros

Through a profit organization, PMI Group puts their employees first. This isn't to say people before revenue, necessarily, but the environment is such that everybody is made to feel just as important as anyone else.

Cons

They can lean a bit too far on the conservative side. Granted, it's an insurance company - and "ready, aim, shoot" is better than "ready, shoot, aim" - but in some instances they need to find a better balance. I've seen to many projects in "ready, ready, aim, ready, reload ... "

Advice to Senior Management

Bring more entry-level people into brainstorming. Get the ideas from the people actually doing the work. In theory (and it should be in practice), they know more about what they do than anyone else, so it makes sense to find out what that work is.

Pros

The work environment is very good.

Cons

Career advancement and not enough vacation time.

Advice to Senior Management

Have a career path for every position.