Upper Management has truly made this company a dreadful place to work - Software Engineer Vertafore Employee Review

1.0
Jan 3, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- RTD pass - Bootcamp to ease you into the "wonderful" world of insurance and their "amazing" (legacy) products - Awesome team/cool people (though many have left at this point)

Cons

- Incompetent upper management - Shady business practices (Vertafore has one product that basically takes data from their existing users without their consent and sells it right back to them) - Terrible tech debt + legacy code + unwillingness to modernize = complete developmental catastrophe - Hiring individuals as one role and making them do the job of another higher role while paying them less - Crappy dell laptops. - Attrition rate amongst developers is ridiculously high and they know it. - Pay below market - Constant spouting of "the Vertafore way" and transparency but it is all BS. - Changing of direction caused scrapping of virtually complete projects, violations of the agile/scrum process, and distress/frustration amongst all development teams - Too many meetings where an email would suffice - Passive aggressiveness from managers, upper management, or even some of the older employees - Unwillingness to adapt - Owned by private equity firms who are obviously only in this to make a profit and then sell the company. Just look at the history of Bain & Vista. - Those on the 4th floor treated waaay better than the developers on the 6th. Not saying those roles besides development are important or less than but if you do not take care of you devs, you won't have a product to sell.

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5.0
Apr 23, 2026
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Pros

•An extremely strong company culture with values that are far more than just words on a marketing flyer. •Genuine opportunities for career advancement and low employee turnover rates. Employees have a reason to stay. •Leadership that listens to feedback and acts on it. •A fun and flexible work environment. Most positions are hybrid but the Denver office has plenty of company events and perks for in-office days.

Cons

•Insurance is a timeless industry. Being a technology company in this market means some things move extremely fast, while others move slow.

1.0
May 23, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Flexible work location but that's really it from an IT perspective

Cons

CEO doesn't know how to run a software company. She wants to know coding details and technical details that should be well below the level of a CEO. She berates people in meetings and changes her priorities and concerns based on whims. All executive leadership is reactionary and micromanaging. They can't create a strategic plan for 12 months and stick to it, much less 3 to 5 years. The CTO doesn't appear to have any experience running a large technology org. He micromanages to the point of downloading software and trying to debug code, as the CTO! He believes all defects should be solvable in 4 days no matter the complexity. The software VP of their largest product doesn't understand software development and refuses to listen to the advise from her managers or software architects. She will assign unachievable goals and hold you accountable for not meeting them even when the reason you didn't make them was her reprioritizing your resources. She doesn't want to engage in any group discussions to resolve problems. She dictates and doesn't handle criticism. The executive leadership team does not give the tech staff enough resources to address defects and their root cause or bandwidth to address technical debt. They will report record sales and profit and then give raises in the 1 to 2 percent range and they already pay well below market rates. Run, don't walk, from this company.

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