Risk Management Solutions Reviews

Pros

Tech stack is really interesting - Big Data Analytics, SaaS Cloud, modern development tools and complex data requirements. Building the compute platform for peril models is a big challenge, but lots of fun. Great place to learn - especially as a Dev learning about catastrophe models. Good dynamic between the Product Management team and the Dev team. Most of the dev team is in California and Colorado so you are not on the phone/conference calls at 9 PM every night.

Advice to Management

Set a direction for the product teams with a sound product strategy and then be patient to see it though.

Pros

Going after REALLY hard analytics problems with a modern SW stack, terrific scientists and researchers with deep domain expertise. Building some of the most complicated, analytics and data applications on the market.
Terrific NEW upper management & board support, plenty of resources to attract the best talent
A VERY nice modern HQ and great benefits
New exec staff aligned to invest in the software, models, and foundation to make this an amazing place to be

Advice to Management

Amazing reboot of the culture and an investment on software, sciences and innovation. Keep it up!

Pros

Great pay
Great benefits
Exciting and meaningful work
An industry leading company on a terrific trajectory
Some of incredibly smart people in the lower ranks.
Work-life balance *can* be great

Advice to Management

Bad communication in the middle-tier and lower-tier is a an area of improvement to focus on. There's over communication (such as: multiple @here in multiple slack channels for the same info) causing distractions for all. There's under communication of necessary details which causes wasted efforts. 99% of emails are effectively internally generated spam (including internal phishing attempts) causing email to not be a useful (or a trusted) communication method. Meetings don't cover their intended topics. The same people always talk and they rarely listen (even after asking a question)

Pros

The people here are highly intellectual and care deeply about creating value for the clients. The products and technology that are being built are on the cutting edge of data analytics and risk management for insurers and re-insurers to provide coverage for catastrophic events (to ultimately make societies and communities around the world more resilient if such events occurred - and we know they do). There are plenty of opportunities to step up and do more than what your role/title might suggest.

Advice to Management

Continue to be transparent with the clients and employees about our strategy/approaches, and also challenges we need to address. Continue to listen hard to the feedback from the frontline and the customers to determine areas of improvements to pursue.

Pros

Interesting projects, flexible work hours, and great team members

Pros

Good learning experience. Work/like balance to keep up with work as well as with family. Great benefits plans.

Pros

brilliant group of scientists and engineers

Advice to Management

review policies on hiring and promotion and seek to rid the conscious or unconscious bias

Pros

One of the world leaders in modeling natural disasters and terrorism, customers are world leaders in their industries. Complex distributed computations. Tons of data to deal with. At my time 2012-2014, was a very good employer to work for.

Advice to Management

I'm writing this almost four years since having left (even CEO is now different), so can only provide a general advice, to listen to engineers. You pay them money to keep you out of trouble, not to sit underground.

Pros

Interesting subject matter and industry. Only one competitor.

Advice to Management

Is there a board? Can the CEO and start over while you still have a chance.

Pros

Flexible hours. Free Gym, food and transit options. Room for growth.