Q&A With Fortegra Employees

Very hard. there is a big boy's club and if you are in it, you get invited to lunch and dinner and get to hang out with the manager's othewise you are left out.

In the past they let me build the network. Now, I get to work on some cool new technologies but it's taken from me and i have to support other departments and people that don't know what they're doing or appreciate me.

I met the software dev manager and the it manager.

It really depends on the department. Overall it's quite high but like any call center, there is some stress there based on the nature of the job. In the IT and Software development departments you'll see quite high morale.

Depends on the department. In the Novi office there is probably the most diversity overall but in the Jacksonville offices, you'll see people from many different countries, an even split of male and female employees. Most of the work force is either right out of school or in their mid-30s or later. There is a pretty high percentage of minority employees as well.

Discounted membership to Fortegra's car clubs, performance based bonuses, what's called SPOT awards which can be very generous and are based on individual nominations for going above and beyond. You get a wide variety of health plans and the coverage is quite good.

It's pretty straightforward. Depending on teh time of year it may go really quickly (immediately) or it could stretch a week or two. They are very fair and reasonable and particularly in IT, you have some of the best people you could work with /for. Interviewing is like everything else there when you work for good people.

Make sure that your resume is in order. Make sure that if you say you can do it, you can do it. They don't try to trick you and interviews are really straightforward. It's a No BS environment so if it's on your resume they assume you are ready to speak about it.

It's laid back. As long as you do your job you'll have a good time and they are very accommodating. If you do your work you'll be able to get things done in 40 hours a week, maybe less at times, maybe a little more at others. Slow and consistent gets the job done and they have a firm belief in Measure Twice cut once. If you do that and make sure to rely on the management you'll have an easy time.

It's a pretty friendly place to be. There are many companies under the Fortegra umbrella so the needs vary. The VP and Director really know what they're doing. They like to hire good people, make sure they have what they need and let them excel. They don't micromanage. It's a collaborative environment with a reasonable amount of oversight and they are very open minded with respect to learning and supporting new technologies.

It's very strong. There are many strong departments there but the VP and the Director of Software development are both very experienced and top notch in their fields.

It really depends on the department. Depending on the role and the time you may have a phone screen and then an in-person or a few in-person ones. The higher the position the more people you need to meet. In general i'd guess you are in for 1-2 hours for your in person although for executive roles it could take as much as 1/2 a day on a few occassions.

There is none. Top mgt doesn't communicate unless it's something trivial thing about frig or breaks. Otherwise theres no proof they exist.

All our devs quit bc of death marches. We're stuck in the 90s (still have major apps in ASP. Green screen keeps us afloat. Morale is dead.