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American Family Insurance

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Mismanaged Beyond Belief - Software Engineer American Family Insurance Employee Review

1.0
10 Oct 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Campus, Flex Days, FMLA, Flex Hours

Cons

- Unqualified "Senior" software engineers in every area - Guidewire is trash and a career dead end. Some leader invested his career for it and refuses to see its garbage. - Leadership is too concerned with pushing their agenda instead of improving - Low pay for what we do - Business fights over funding so there is absolutely no concept of the "Agile" nature they say they are - If you aren't in with people, you won't get promoted - CEO would rather tweet about social issues than fix his company - CTO has a finance degree and no knowledge about technology. Says fancy things and makes this "cloud transformation" thing sound pretty. He is nothing more than another insurance leader from Homesite. There will be no transformation with him.

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5.0
1 Jun 2026
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Pros

Remote, extended and detailed training. good benefits.

Cons

First month of training was in office at their Phoenix location, after that it was remote.

3.0
8 Jun 2026
Recommend
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Pros

- Working with some genuinely smart people - Usually seems to be a culture of helping one another out across teams

Cons

- Poor IT leadership understanding of business and organizational standards - Consistently low morale from high contributors who aren’t recognized at early reviews - Very poor organizational structuring; regularly either a vacuum where a more capable leader is needed that is being filled by an under-titled and under-paid individual, or the vacuum is entirely unfilled and all teams pay the price - Regular assumptions of other teams state without discovery by leadership - Poor documentation which results in endless meetings

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