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Aetna reviews

3.4

60% would recommend to a friend

(4,147 total reviews)

David Joyner

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56% positive business outlook

Aetna has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 4,147 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Aetna employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Insurance industry (3.6 stars).

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4K reviews
3.0
Jul 6, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

There seems to be recognition of the need for a life outside work. This varies from department to department, but at least there's some support for it officially. For a big company, things are reasonably functional.

Cons

It's stll a big bureaucratic mess hobbled by incompetent managers promoted because there's no promotion path for competent workers that does not involve management rather than any talent for managing, infighting between departments, overall planning that doesn't overrule the deparmental infighting and incompetent management, topdown management where the bottomline workers are kept in dark and fed manure, and brainless costcutting that leaves inexperienced contract workers under incompetent managers to construct the data systems that are supposed to lead the company into the future. IT is universally regarded as a liability within the company.

3.0
Jun 25, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

If you are starting out in this field/industry, they offer decent training and a good company name for your resume. They also offer a fully-paid retirement program and contribute to a 401k plan (although those may be phased out by now), a bonus program and a stock option program (for certain levels)

Cons

Unless you are one of the chosen few, you can forget advancement beyond, say, a supervisor or lower level manager position. They have continued to finance their "comeback" on the backs of their employees, e.g., increased the work week from 37.5 hours per week to 40 hours per week with no increase in pay, reduced health benefits and contributions to those plans, reduced retiree benefits, lowered their contributions to the 401k plan, and cut staff with no reduction in workload.

3.0
Jun 24, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The flex schedule and paid time off

Cons

No advancement opportunity or steps that are layed out for you to take to advance to the next step in your career at Aetna. Pay scale is not in-line with other insurance companies in the CT area.

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