"A swiss boys club" - Vice President Swiss Re Employee Review

2.0
Mar 5, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The company offers great benefits, professional training and opportunities to work with international teams and with very smart people overall. Very good external image and good brand for your CV. Flexible working hours.

Cons

Despite the many Diversity & Inclusion efforts, the company in Zurich is a Swiss boys' club and who does not fit this description has substantial less opportunities for promotion and salary increase. The company recently published an study that measured internal bias in the organization and the #1 bias was against women, well above race, place of origin and sexual orientation. Interestingly enough, women in leadership positions demonstrated more negative bias against other women than men.

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Pros

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Cons

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5.0
Jun 23, 2026
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Pros

The people you work with are amazing. The benefits are wonderful. I appreciate the bonus structure and the growth I've experienced with the organization.

Cons

Leadership's strategy and vision are severely lacking and self-serving. There's a lot of favoritism with the same people being included in decision-making without consideration for their ability to actually deliver results. In turn, the lower-level employees are left to clean up the disaster. I see that Swiss is on here making comments on employee reviews - hopefully they take note of how many people in the last 90 days said the same thing about the leadership strategy. We're not on glassdoor because we like reviewing our company - we're here looking for outside opportunities because of the way the company is currently operating. We're bleeding good talent because they no longer align with the corporate strategy.

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