Toxic environment - Operations Associate Swiss Re Employee Review

1.0
Nov 6, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

I cannot thing of anything else than home office

Cons

Some people were very toxic and fake nice since the very first day of my arrival. People in my team were constantly trying to give their work to me just to get rid of their responsibility. The origanization of tasks was poorly done by the manager and herself didn't even do what she had to do. There was constant pressure on me just because distribution partners were not replying our emails so we couldn't get some work done..This company was a total chaos. Some days I didn't know where to start first. I had part time job working 4hours but they wanted me to do the job worth of 12hours every day. Some other days there was nothing to do at all. There were constant problems with software I worked with and IT issues got resolved so slowly. For example, it took more than 2 weeks to solve some basic problem (I couldn't upload some file in the system). Every person was avoiding their responsibility to help me. I also really disliked one colleague who was constantly patronizing me as if I was a toddler and she kept messaging me all the time for stupid things. This job had absolutely zero career opportunity. I was just killing time doing it because I took a language course. I do not advise anyone working there if you are ambitious and actually wanna move somewhere in life.

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5.0
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Pros

Great culture, people are helpful

Cons

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Swiss Re Response
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We’re glad the culture and supportive colleagues have been meaningful in your experience. We know large organisations can sometimes feel complex, and we're constantly working to simplify decision making where possible. Thank you for your review.
2.0
May 30, 2026
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Pros

1. 12% 401k match 2. Amazing co workers in the trenches but this is rapidly changing as people look for the exits.

Cons

1. Management - the new management team has a maximum personal bonus / profit only mindset. Cost cutting reigns. 2. Constant layoffs. No job is safe. 3. Company has offshored many jobs to India and is in a race to move key underwritering, engineering, claims functions to India as well. Overall, it feels more like a private equity gut job than a publicly traded company.

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