Great place if you love people that hate change
Pros
Marina Heights facilities are very nice. All of the following perks generally only apply to Systems: Work from home generally once a week. Option of doing 4 days at 10 hours. Can get a Mac with decent business case. Java and Javascript Some smart people. Get around 6 hours of PTO per pay period, so 20 days to use for sickness and vacation, per year. Increases by tenure. They're weeding out and paying off those that have been at the company forever not contributing. Annual bonus range is at minimum 5% of your salary as long as you get an ok rating, 10% when the company is on target for the year. Newer upper management sees what is wrong with Technology department. Pension is sweet if you can stand staying here your entire life and don't think that they'll ever go out of business. Good place to start a career. You get any work done and you're amazing and get raises very fast. Other side is you quickly become worth more than they are paying you. Moving jobs out of Bloomington. They've been stuck in their ways for too long.
Cons
Developers are burnt out because they're doing the job of architects, builds, testing, design on a million different applications because when they let IT Analysts/Test/Business do everything they end up having to redesign it anyway. We need more technical people in roles that are in Systems, someone from Claims or Underwriting probably isn't qualified to be a business analyst unless they get a RELEVANT degree or certifications. Lots of people there to just collect paychecks and not accomplish anything. Seems that 1 out of 2 analysts transferred from Bloomington has a laziness ingrained in them, which can be contagious or slow the rest of the team down, picking up their work. Too many pessimistic "it is supposed to go this way, because I read it on the Tech Guide" type of people, as opposed to optimistic "let's try this and see how it works" type people. The production change process is miserable. Once you hit level 3 out of 4 you're stuck there for a while and your pay never gets a chance for a huge increase. Benefits have only gotten worse.
