Only way to get ahead is to be manager's pet - Actuarial Analyst Swiss Re Employee Review

2.0
Oct 26, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Work pressure - there are people who do nothing and there are people who do too much. You decide how much you take on. Good facilities - office is very nice and great place. I have worked many people who I look upto and b t ironically all of them work in overseas offices.

Cons

It's filled with insecure manager who don't let juniors outshine them ever. This is more frequent than you think since many managers themselves have no depth in skills or subject matter. Take any location and compare it against the numbers of employees and their titles in Bangalore. Most of them do support work which wouldn't see the light of the day unless there overseas counterparts approve it. However the vice versa is not true. The management protects their own. In multiple years, HR never spoke to me after orientation, not even for an exit interview. My manager kept on looking at some random file while the exit interview was going on. Couldn't even bother to pretend that he is listening. If you try to switch teams, your manager's fragile ego will be hurt and he will send a rather scathing feedback to the team hiring you. It could be a good place but with your precious time and energy in early years, you can achieve much more at other companies such as likes of Digital and Acko

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Swiss Re Response
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We appreciate your feedback and are sorry to hear about your negative experience. Swiss Re strives to foster an environment where everyone feels comfortable speaking up if they believe that something is not right. We therefore encourage you to get in touch with our whistleblowing hotline on swissre.ethicspoint.com.

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5.0
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The people you work with are amazing. The benefits are wonderful. I appreciate the bonus structure and the growth I've experienced with the organization.

Cons

Leadership's strategy and vision are severely lacking and self-serving. There's a lot of favoritism with the same people being included in decision-making without consideration for their ability to actually deliver results. In turn, the lower-level employees are left to clean up the disaster. I see that Swiss is on here making comments on employee reviews - hopefully they take note of how many people in the last 90 days said the same thing about the leadership strategy. We're not on glassdoor because we like reviewing our company - we're here looking for outside opportunities because of the way the company is currently operating. We're bleeding good talent because they no longer align with the corporate strategy.

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2.0
May 30, 2026
Recommend
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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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Swiss Re Response
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Thank you for your review. We are glad to hear you valued your colleagues and some of the benefits of working at Swiss Re. We also take your concerns about change, stability and ways of working seriously, and we remain focused on ensuring a respectful and supportive environment across our global organisation.
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