XL Capital Reviews

Pros

Very competitive environment in IT.

Cons

Less employees and more external consultants, strategic partners. Lack of knowledge transfer to carry over.

Advice to Senior Management

Try to retain experts with good knowledge of systems.

Pros

Beautiful environment, convenient location, good benifit

Cons

need to improve fairness, opportunity, growth and efficiency.

Pros

XL is a great place to start. There are a lot of opportunities to take on responsibility and grow. The other employees, particularly the actuaries, are all very friendly.

Cons

Senior management used to be fairly incompetent but with McGavick this seemed to be changing. Responsibility was not always clearly defined.

Pros

Good place to work and supportive of further education. Ethical and competent management. I would recommend it as an employer.

Cons

It can be difficult to be promoted from within.

Advice to Senior Management

Do a better job of tying compensation to performance

Pros

Some smart people scattered amongst the clueless confusion

Cons

lot's of very average senior managers

Advice to Senior Management

Look beyond the bubble

Pros

ability to control your career path; great fellow employees; fair salaries and supper bonuses.

Cons

iffy former senior management. Thankfully they have passed on. Rough time with current financial ratings although there is tons of money in the bank! Seems all a waste of time.

Advice to Senior Management

wake up, where have you been the past five years besides feeding at the trough raking in the bucks. I am sorry your stock is now worthless, but it is your own fault. You should have stopped the silly whooping it up years ago and actually gone to work and done your job.

Pros

The division I worked in allowed me to get exposure to all sides of the business rather than repeating the same tasks. I was given a lot of freedom to get my work done without my manager always watching over my shoulder. I also worked with some of the smartest people I have ever met.

Cons

The company as a whole does not have much spirit or life to it. It is very much a company where you go in and get your work done, then you go home. There was not much corporate culture and it did not offer many functions outside of work.

Advice to Senior Management

Please learn to invest our money in better funds and rework IT so it more functional for the smaller business units.

Pros

good people operating under heavy bureaucracy. The company is made up of several fiefdoms.

Cons

1. The company has lost its way
2. Management has no serious plan to turn company around
3. Management does not communicate well
4. Who you know get you far
5. IT services is pathetic
6. Nonsensical acquisition strategy,

Advice to Senior Management

1. Change the board
2. off load unprofitable business
3. Outsource IT, look for options at a minimum.
4. Attract and retain top talent. There are too many 'B' and 'C' players, need top tier talent