FBL Financial reviews

I've been in IT for over 20 years. Half of those years as an architect. I have never known an organization that seems so opposed to having an enterprise architect view on things. They want to set up things in silos. Each of the companies doing their own thing without thought to how things should be at an enterprise view. This limits how systems scale and interact. The CIO from nationwide tried to implement this. Knowledge sharing, scalability, etc. I guess it was too much change cause they let him go. The new CIO is so wet behind the ears that I have t shirts that are older than him. From my view, he's getting rid of a lot of people that would challenge (or maybe did challenge him in the past). I'm not privy to a lot of that but I do know people. Someone who does that is acting out of fear. My advice to those looking to work here. Don't. Unless you want someplace that you can settle down, do very little work and not be noticed, this is your place. Otherwise, if you want challenge, ability to speak your mind, and management support. And like another reviewer said, go work somewhere else

I’ve been a BA for well over 15 years. I’m fairly new to the FBL company, less than 2 years but wow. Talk about not keeping up with the times. There really is no BA practice here. It’s a bunch of people that worked in the business (P&C) and understand the system but don’t know the first thing about requirements gathering or testing. In fact, one of the testers gloats about how are able to find defects in the code and that it’s a reflection on how bad the developers are. Really? I have never worked in a place that has had that attitude. We should be a team and figure out how we help each other to deliver a better product. I was hoping things would change here but they don’t. A lot of the people here seem to be waiting to retire. Terrible work environment. Do not work here!