Premera Blue Cross reviews

If you want to advance your career or grow your professional skills, this might not be the place for you. Often there is one senior associate who knows everything and that person doesn't openly share tribal knowlege so that person becomes a single point of failure - which is very risky for the company. Junior associates are almost totally dependent on the "knowledgeable one". For example: Projects are not managed well, yet working on projects is one of the few ways to get exposure and learn the business, so it is one of the fastest ways to gain tribal knowledge because senior associates are not rewarded for mentoring juniors or sharing tribal knowledge. Yet, project work is a nightmare because there is no enterprise project management standard (there is a standard but nobody follows it and nobody enforces the standard) let alone doing any kind of knowledge management.

In the last 8 years there has been a revolving door for middle managers. Unfortunately the best seem to have the shortest life here. I have little trust in upper managment below the CIO level. We seem to have moved to a focus on process rather than product. The benefits are the worst that I have had in a 30 year IT career.