Vertafore Engineering Department Employee Reviews
Briefly describe your overall experience at your company
Review from Engineering Dept · Posted 18 days ago
Review from Engineering Dept · Posted 24 days ago
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What do you like best about the leadership team?
They care about people more than any other company I have ever worked at. They do their best, and keep trying to do better. Domain knowledge. Positive attitude.
Review from Engineering Dept · Posted 18 days ago
The leadership team is bringing best standards and practices that are available across the industry. Helping us to get educated and align with what's happening in the Tech World as a whole and adopt them as they occur in daily work.
Review from Engineering Dept · Posted 24 days ago
The vision conveyed to employees.
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I value the leadership team’s clear vision, openness to feedback, and collaborative approach. They lead by example, empower the team, and
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CEO stability has been much better the last few years. Amy Zupon is committed to the organization and I feel she has pride and desire to realize our customer value. The rest of the c-suite is more in flux - seems constant changes here. These would be harder to handle if Amy Zupon wasn't there.
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What does the leadership team need to get better at?
Executive leadership is OPAQUE. Staff questions are met with equivocation and a lack of clear answers. Also, PAY YOUR STAFF A FAIR WAGE.
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Understanding employee needs, be clear about why they make certain decisions.
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We are constantly working 50 - 60 hour weeks, and we were threatened to have to work weekends. This is way too much.
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Understanding employee needs, compensation and working remote.
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What is the best part about your compensation package?
Bonus plan is fairly competitive in the marketplace, although formula for it is not transparent nor clear throughout the year. Not knowing the exact formula gives perception (and opportunity) to make the bonus % whatever execs want.
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The salary is received on time.
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ability to work from home
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They are low cost and and ECO pass is available.
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5 weeks PTO is amazing
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Why do you feel undervalued and what would make you feel better about your compensation?
I think at every 5 years or so, salary normalization should happen as per the fair average market value for that role. That would help us to be competitive with the industry/market and retain very best top talent as the years progress.
Review from Engineering Dept · Posted 24 days ago
Lesser hike and package than market price and benifits.
Review from Engineering Dept · Posted 25 days ago
I feel that the pay for developers in QQ Catalyst is low for the market. Many of us could be making 1.5-2x the pay we're currently getting. Not to mention several jobs have been eliminated on our team do to attrition and have not been filled.
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We are paid very poorly compared to the rest of the software world. Our benefits are very poor compared to the rest of the software world.
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Compensation is regularly below industry standards.
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What are some of the best things about your team?
Feedback, sharing, brainstorming, and collaborating.
Review from Engineering Dept · Posted 18 days ago
My Team is very collaborative and forthcoming and helps to get things done. I never recall that there's even a single instance where team had not stepped in support each other. This significantly helped us to ensure that we are delivering as per the timelines and are committed to our customers need.
Review from Engineering Dept · Posted 24 days ago
The best thing about Vertafore is its people. Just about everyone is highly capable, happy to collaborate, and easy to work with. When I leave, it will be because of the low pay, not the people.
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The team create a supportive environment.
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Commitment to vision and customers. I know most of my colleagues and team are trying to do what's best for the customer and the company, even when we disagree.
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What do your coworkers need to improve and how could you work together better?
Respect and be ready to step in and support
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Communication should be increased between teams
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Vertafore tends to hire under qualified people, and generally hires the first(and usually only) person to accept the job. Working with some of my co workers is a nightmare.
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Additional training in our specific area
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Team mates are all great. It's the higher ups we don't trust.
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What is most positive about the culture and environment at your company?
Flexibility, continuous learning, curiosity is encouraged.
Review from Engineering Dept · Posted 18 days ago
The company culture is very vibrant and diverse with very highly skilled individuals distributed across teams across the globe. This helps us delivering significant value and build trust across our customers.
Review from Engineering Dept · Posted 24 days ago
The people at Vertafore are amazing and the best thing about working there.
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clear vision, openness to feedback, and collaborative approach.
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Desire to improve. Our department is generally very focused on introspection and improvement, even when uncomfortable. Failures are opportunity for improvement, not blame or scapegoating.
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What needs to change to make the company culture better?
Not really sure. It just seems hard to actually talk to people
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Not applicable for the entire organisation, but 'People Management is an Art' . First timers into People management is tough for the team especially when manager feels superiority over the team coz of their tech background., A skip level meeting with the director would be very helpful in such cases.
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Work culture, Technologies, Learnings, Work life balance
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Organization set up to allow for clear communication and workflows. A move away from everyone as a resource and the attempt to squeeze every penny out of people, process, and activity. And when something is done (benifits/perks) they are done well not to a minimum that meets a marketing line.
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Pay people enough to care
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What did you like most about the interview process?
Who likes the interview process? This is a strange question. It wasn't particularly odious.
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It wasn't a terribly long process like some other companies - an online "test", a call or two, and one in-person interview (pre-covid). Things may have changed since then though.
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getting to know the people
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Once the personal interviews it was a great process full of good questions and candor.
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Very process oriented. Initial hr generalists then actual management
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What would you improve about your company's interview process?
Sped up, my interview process took 2 months
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What makes you most happy at work?
Solving problems, fixing issues, building effective solutions, exploring new technology.
Review from Engineering Dept · Posted 18 days ago
Being able to do what I love and bring in more use cases and leveraging the AI in day-to-day workflow. Research and Development activities.
Review from Engineering Dept · Posted 24 days ago
New challanges every day and new things to learn and implement
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Getting things accomplished and delivering on promises.
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Making development progress on our product
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What's going wrong and how can it be improved?
Executive team doesn't listen to staff feedback. They ask for it, as an effort to appear as though they want to incorporate employees' suggestions into company processes and policies, but they effectively ignore or circumlocute around it.
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The technology being used in the applications are too old and brittle because no time had been spent on tech debt. The processes are really inefficient as well. Basically the phrase "sunk-cost fallacy" comes to mind in terms of technology and processes
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POs and higher-ups are pushing for unrealistic timelines which causes developers to work extreme hours. We don't have time to see our families.
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Constant changing of direction by leadership is exhausting and inefficient. Then we are told we are getting things done fast enough.
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We have a ton of work/time-commitments from above the product team causing stress as the teams must adjust and devote time to huge projects that should take ideally 3-4 years to do, rather than 6 months. Especially as some legacy products are not as fast as others due to resource constraints.
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What do you like best about your company?
The paycheck, and even that is not great
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What would you most like to see improved at your company?
Pay market rates - and stop claiming you already do.
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Value your employees and their specific knowledge in insurance.
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