Not a great place to work anymore! - Underwriter Argo Group Employee Review

1.0
Jun 2, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

-In general coworkers are friendly and are willing to help.

Cons

-Expect to be in office five days a week. -Underwriters on average have 16-20 broker offices assigned to them regardless of level. -Unrealistic ambitious premium goals have being set for every underwriting casualty division. -Due to the lack of underwriters available to meet unrealistic expectations every underwriter regardless of level is expected to bring as much premium as possible regardless of their goals. -In light of the ongoing reduction of the teams size due to underwriters leaving the company for better opportunities, the pressure to bring more and more premium has become toxic and overwhelming. -Expect to be cc in emails from the head of casualty every time someone writes an account over $100k in premium regardless of the underwriter division with the intension to pressure underwriters. -Constantly overwhelming push from the head of casualty to do more broker visits as well as going with the marketing department to do their own broker office visits to bring more business.

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Pros

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Cons

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