Magellan Health Employee Reviews about "manager"

Pros

Coworkers, members, PTO, some flex, relatively decent pay

Cons

Toxic work environment. Unrealistic expectations. Manager did not understand the tasks and therefore could not effectively manage her team. HR does not listen even with multiple complaints about the manager.

Pros

I am very familiar with with Terros and other crisis partners in Maricopa County through my work as Crisis Manager.

Cons

Loss of contract to MMIC.

Pros

Good Work-Life Balance Very supportive Manager

Cons

Technology issues, tech support in particular, is slow to respond, sometimes causing a work stoppage

Pros

Plenty other positions that you can apply for. Whether you acquire it...

Cons

High insurance deductible, plenty of employee service apps but no one to speak with. No manager accountability.

Pros

Paid time off Work from home potential Friendly and Knowledgeable Supervisor Flexible working hours (anywhere from 5:30am-10:00am available to start your day—also can flex time to have 4x 9 hour days and 1x 4 hour day)

Cons

Constant Mandatory Overtime. Incompetent interim leadership Unqualified staff being placed into Leadership roles over qualified individuals due to favoritism by leadership over Hiring Manager. The training needs replaced/updated. Staff was correcting the trainer in the classroom—this goes along with putting unqualified staff in roles over qualified individuals as well. Low pay. Terrible benefits. Leadership/The company says they want you to advance within the company, but offer nothing as far as advancing your knowledge to grow within the team, department, or company. Processors are left to feel that they are only a button pusher for 50+ hours a week, nothing more.

Pros

Worked with incredible people Good Insurance Learned a lot about proper EDI Met excellent standards in their work

Cons

Wasn't given enough work, even when asking for more Lack in direction Was transferred to a new team while on vacation and then asked in front of my new manager if I was okay with that

Pros

One of the best reasons is the opportunity to become a team lead or manager.

Cons

High turnover, low morale. Firms continually try to reward by low budget luncheons or non financial rewards. Bottom line is, money talks.

Pros

The only pros are that most of the people are nice, and the PTO is good.

Cons

The cons include micromanagement, a pretentious manager, and an unsupportive and untrustworthy manager.

Pros

there is plenty of growth

Cons

The manager would only let certain people grow

Pros

Great benefits - if you're allowed to use them. There is flex-time, for some people. There is work-at-home possibility, for some people. But it all depends on your manager. If your manager doesn't like you - you don't get the benefit. If your manger likes you, you basically get to do whatever you want. That said, 23+ days of PTO is nice - if you can use it. The EAP system is also very nice if you know how to use it, and I have and it was beneficial. If you currently work at Magellan look more into it - it can help.

Cons

It is a very religious environment, and that is never good - unless you work at a church. There is a lot of favoritism based on whether or not you're friends with certain management individuals. They would rather work their programmers to death than hire more of them - despite getting new companies, new products, and having a surplus of cash. They don't pay the programmers well either - most programmers leave Magellan for other places that pay much more. The demand increases and they keep the same couple dozen programmers, who seem to all have health issues due to being stressed and over worked. They'll get more people in other departments but they seem to forget that without the information delivery part of the equation they have nothing to offer their clients to show that they're actually doing anything for them. They also seem to want all of their programmers to have the same skills and be able to take up the slack for any other programmer - hence the cookie cutter reference. This doesn't work with programmers, they're a unique breed and have specialties for a reason. If you don't have a passion for something you may still be able to do the work but you won't be able to be stellar at it, but that doesn't seem to matter. Rather than have a few people who are specialists in a lot of areas they want everyone to be exactly the same. Yet they also want people to innovate and advance their skills, it's a catch-22. That said, there was a change in management in October 2008 that changed the programmer/analyst group from a very functional, vital, and moral filled area into a demoralized pit of sick workers. It's a real shame. At this point in time I can't recommend working here, hopefully that will change at some point.