Athene reviews

Very questionable business practices. I personally feel they are incredibly unethical. Due to massive attrition - with key people still leaving in droves - they are lacking solid processes and procedures. A few people seem to be holding it all together. VP level management only supports the managers. Lower level employees (professional level) have no recourse for issues or support. Management breeds a very toxic environment. The business side seems decent, but IT is a cluster. No one seems to be happy. Lots and lots of very shady things going on there.

Athene’s culture can be best described as that of Athens, Greece. Not only is getting IT services from the helpdesk a total nightmare, the whole company is a seemingly well built organization that is bound to crumble any second. Bureaucracy is rampant. If you are not a boot licker, be prepared to be skipped out on promotions and rather, be swamped with more work. Upper management could care less about your goals; they only care about filling their own pockets just like the man at the top. This creates a culture where gossiping and backstabbing becomes the norm. The turnover rate for the actuarial department is at a whopping 20%. Also, Athene only recruits locally so you are surrounded by Iowa/Drake/UNI/etc grads who I wouldn’t exactly say are the brightest of the bunch. Finally, there is no diversity whatsoever in this company and exempt/salaried workers are used to the company’s full advantage. Do yourselves a favor and google AtheneUSA. To me, it seems like this company has fun screwing over their policyholders and scamming them out of their hard earned money. Do you really expect a company that can’t even serve their most important assets (the policyholders) properly serve their own employees?