WellPoint Reviews

Current Employee – been working at WellPoint full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Allows you to work from home and flex your work schedule

Cons – They don't have the most competitive benefits or salary. Requires you to get your FSA, so the result is the company has to many FSA's which ends up restricting ability to move up.

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

Former Employee – worked at WellPoint full-time for more than a year

Pros – Really good benefits including tuition reimbursement, health/dental/vision insurance, 401k 100% matched to the 4% of your salary.

Cons – Not very flexible, don't let most people work from home on occasion.

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

Former Employee – worked at WellPoint full-time for more than a year

Pros – Good Benefits and investment for employees to be empowered for a healthy lifestyle with in house gym.

Cons – Leadership is inconsistent and many lack people skills.

Advice to Senior Management – Changes in past year with new CEO and await track record.

Current Employee – been working at WellPoint full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Coworkers, flexibility, paid time off

Cons – Organization in constant flux, tons of lay offs, everything is being outsourced, no sense of stability whatsoever so low sense of loyalty to the company now...didn't used to be this way

Advice to Senior Management – Instead of "restructuring" every 6 to 12 months, how about sticking with a plan long enough to see if the changes have any effect? The place reorganizes so often there's no time for changes to take hold and to measure results before the next reorg. Lay offs have been sweeping and brutal. Treat your employees with more consideration and respect.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at WellPoint full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Good pay
Virtual employer
Decent performance as a stock

Cons – Poor senior leadership
Gets in its own way
Too nice

Advice to Senior Management – Create a strategy for once.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at WellPoint full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Wellpoint is a large company with alot of room fo advancement especially for women. They have great benefits and they empower leaders to build diverse teams.

Cons – Wellpoint has a history of laying off employees who have been long term loyal and hard working employees. after just 3 years of being with the company and being involved in a merger with another PBM, I watched colleagues who had been with Wellpoint for 10, 15, 20 and even 26 years pushed out the door. Very sad to see that a company who proclaims to serve its members and provide quality care, doesn't serve its employees for take care of them.

Advice to Senior Management – appreciate your loyal employees.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at WellPoint full-time

Pros – Size of company, benefits and the brand recognition of the Anthem name. Size and scope will be important going forward.

Cons – Red tape....development of talent is lacking. Company is so large that at times it seems like different companies under one umbrella

Advice to Senior Management – Identify and grow talent from within. Try and eliminate the red tape that has developed. Have a clear leadership team and allow them to lead. Stop letting talent walk.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at WellPoint full-time for more than a year

Pros – was given stretch job assignments

Cons – lack of trust in remote workers output and creativity

Advice to Senior Management – grow talent no matter how much their communication skills need upgrades. skill is not replaceable!!

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at WellPoint full-time

Pros – The organization really looks after the associates and provides a good working envirnment. The people were great to work with.

Cons – The size of the organization slows down the decision making process, and some processes were different than the industry standard that I was accustomed to.

Advice to Senior Management – Really reach out to the front line associates to better understand the organization's challenges.

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

Former Employee – worked at WellPoint

Pros – Flexible working hours and flexible telecommuting options

Cons – constantly changing priorities; middle management input on strategy often minimized

Advice to Senior Management – Appreciate the power and influence of middle management