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    Reinsurance Group of America Reviews

    Updated July 18, 2017
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    Reinsurance Group of America President & CEO Anna Manning
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    Pros

    • It is a nice small company to work for with a great work life balance (in 12 reviews)

    • Good work/life balance, good benefits, casual and fun environment (in 7 reviews)

    Cons

    • Poor management, antiquated processes, no growth potential (in 3 reviews)

    • The only thing is the location, depends on how much you like to live in St Louis (in 3 reviews)

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    1. "Great place to work"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at Reinsurance Group of America full-time (More than 5 years)

      Pros

      Outstanding management; good compensation; expanding rather than cutting benefits; collegial atmosphere

      Cons

      You must be willing to work hard. This is not a place you can coast.

    2. "Excellent Culture and Motivating Environment"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee in Chesterfield, MO
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee in Chesterfield, MO
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at Reinsurance Group of America full-time (More than a year)

      Pros

      Senior Leadership and people
      Culture, most people seem happy
      Facilities and Environment
      Flexible work environment when feasible

      Cons

      Some orgs can be pretty lean causing some initiatives to run slower than they should, as well as a too consensus-driven at times

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    3. Helpful (2)

      "understand their definition of a high-performing employee"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee in Chesterfield, MO
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee in Chesterfield, MO
      Doesn't Recommend
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I worked at Reinsurance Group of America full-time (More than 10 years)

      Pros

      If you're willing to sacrifice your personal life, health and well-being, this is the place for you

      Cons

      high-performing employee = working 24/7/365

      Advice to Management

      You have a hard-working earnest managment team but far too many lack depth and dimension. Life-long St Louis area residents who have spent their entire career at RGA; One dimensional thinkers, singular point of view- no perspective, resistant to change, unwilling to consider alternative ideas because it's never been required of them- unable to recognize much less appreciate people who have more to offer than they do.,

    4. "Sr. Systems Administrator"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee

      I worked at Reinsurance Group of America full-time

      Pros

      Great company benefits by today's standareerds.

      Cons

      Limited career advancement opportunities in IT area. IT teams are run way too lean.

    5. "Lackluster"

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      Former Employee - Account Manager in Minneapolis, MN
      Former Employee - Account Manager in Minneapolis, MN
      Doesn't Recommend
      Positive Outlook
      No opinion of CEO

      I worked at Reinsurance Group of America full-time (More than 5 years)

      Pros

      Flexible work schedule, good benefits, pretty good yearly PTO accruals. A lot of long term employees (which isn't always good) they do some fun team outings.

      Cons

      Poor management, antiquated processes, no growth potential. Get ready to sit in your cubical for the next 20 years doing exactly the same thing everyday. It's a "lean" organization so your expected to do a lot with very little

      Advice to Management

      Don't start big projects before a thorough plan is in place.

    6. "Great place to work"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at Reinsurance Group of America full-time (More than 10 years)

      Pros

      Good work/life balance, good benefits, casual and fun environment. Easy to get to by bus and RGA subsidizes a transit pass.

      Cons

      Not a lot of opportunity for advancement; issues with management are not taken very seriously. Expensive to work downtown, between transportation and food costs.

      Advice to Management

      The company has a good vision and good direction; upper management is very competent and well-organized. But some of the lower management are difficult to work with and not as skilled as dealing with personnel as they could be.

    7. Helpful (1)

      "IT Administration"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Doesn't Recommend
      Positive Outlook
      No opinion of CEO

      I have been working at Reinsurance Group of America full-time

      Pros

      New building has cafe, gym, covered parking. Pay is decent, annual bonus, pension.

      Cons

      Sr. IT management is a my way or no way type, even when proven that way isn't the best for the company. The finger of blame comes out every time said "my way implementation" does not work as promised.

      Advice to Management

      Manage, don't try to engineer every system in IT. Listen to your people doing the work and less to the vendors, who are most interested in selling you another piece of hardware, and don't let personal opinions get in the way of hardware purchases.

    8. "IT Business/ Quality Analyst"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee in Minneapolis, MN
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee in Minneapolis, MN
      Recommends
      Neutral Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I worked at Reinsurance Group of America (More than 10 years)

      Pros

      Great benefits and pay. Employees stay for ever.

      Cons

      Poor leadership in the IT Business / Quality Analyst department. No room to advance.

    9. "Sr Analyst"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee in Chesterfield, MO
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee in Chesterfield, MO
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook

      I worked at Reinsurance Group of America full-time (More than 10 years)

      Pros

      Awesome people to work with; Flexible schedules; Awesome benefits; high growth. Definitely recommend working here. State of the art facilities.

      Cons

      the usual micromanagement in the lower management ranks. Many lower level managers are good resource managers and not good people leaders.

      Advice to Management

      provide more support in teaching internally grown management how to be good people leaders.

    10. "Intern"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      Pros

      Great package, good work/life balance

      Cons

      Location is not so satisfying

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