Federated Insurance reviews about "training program"

Limited work life flexibility Marketing Based Culture

Senior management is very stubborn about certain things, like I'm sure is the case in many companies. For example, the most casual attire you are typically permitted to wear is business casual. They also insist that none of our employees can work from home effectively, even though that is clearly not true. Several employees have had equal or greater performance when working from home, but are still not permitted to do so even though the governor said that those who could should continue to do so. They have not offered any good justification for this decision, and don't seem to care that we object, or that the order says that. We continue to lose much of our best talent because of this. Additionally, there is a large disconnect between the business side of things and the IT side of things. Often IT will be strong-armed into doing things that are impossible to do correctly/safely. Part of the culture is to be accommodating to others, and often gets so ingrained into people's heads that they often don't stand up for what is right or what is good long-term. On the opposite side of things, people often do not own all aspects of what they are working on because they believe certain parts to be someone else's job. People need to think and do things more for themselves instead of blindly passing work off to others.

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If you’re a White Christian Conservative, then you would love this place. If not, run. Federated almost feels like a cult at times. There’s much better jobs in the industry, the reason they do their own training is so young employees don’t realize that. There’s a reason you sign a 5 year contract with them. They trap you before you realize you got conned into a cult.

Leadership is deeply out of touch with the twenty-first-century workplace and sometimes dysfunctional. Common sense has been repeatedly ignored during COVID for vaguely defined “culture” reasons, getting employees sick. Absolutely no willingness to consider any kind of remote work, even in the face of losing most of the company's best talent. Frustrating lack of transparency and paternalistic attitude toward employees. Management often approves proposals and then makes employees defend them again mid-implementation. Lack of diversity. Leadership is almost entirely white men and other staff isn't too much different. Granted, it's tough to build a diverse workplace in small-town southern Minnesota, but still frustrating and a significant weakness in perspective. Conservative and reluctant to change. Technology stack badly out of date in some places (but catching up or even excellent in others). Probably not worse than an average financial services company. Many positions in the IS department involve less “development” and technical work and more configuration, maintenance and administration than you might expect from the job title; some are very far on this side of the continuum. When starting in the training program it is impossible to know what type your placement will be because most hires are not made for a specific position. (That said, historically they seem to be good at matching people to positions that fit them well.) Expectations for work hours are varied and unpredictable. Some departments and teams work ~40-hour weeks indefinitely, others have significantly higher expectations or mandatory overtime for years in a row. Mediocre project and work management. Limited social opportunities in Owatonna for people without a family. If you want to live somewhere else, you'll be spending a lot of time in the car.

Company culture is very much like a cult. You’re not allowed to think critically or make recommendations that can help the company. Very behind the times with with technology. They will always tell you “this is the way it’s always been done”. If you’re under the age of 35 it will feel very frustrated with their systems. It feels like working for a company stuck in the 90s. You’re entire job as a marketing rep is to win arbitrary competitions and sell overpriced life insurance. It leads to managers pushing you to make unethical decisions.

Work load fluctuates so at times very busy but manageable overall.