Centene FAQ

Pros

Very good company to work for. Good pay and benefits package. Opportunities for advancement.

Cons

Beware of layoffs after acquisitions.

Advice to Management

Do not expand to quickly.

Pros

onsite cafe, lot of projects, sometimes beer drinks

Cons

too much micromanagement, favoritism, & backstabbing

Advice to Management

look at the hiring practices in the data analysis team

Pros

-Paid time off/holidays off -good benefits if you have a family for health insurance dental vision

Cons

-can’t take unpaid time off -Micro managed -short 30 minutes lunch -favoritism

Advice to Management

Management needs to train call center representatives better and not scare them away. It’s been the same 20 people I’ve worked with since 3 years ago no one new Evers makes it to the floor.

Pros

Good leadership and opportunities to grow within the company. However the Employee need to have that self-determination to take the leap. Centene recently developed good benefits like the paid parental leave, though very late in the corporate world among other pro-employee companies in Healthcare.

Cons

There is more room to grow for HR in employee retention. The Company is more focused for having appetite on big acquisitions, whereas contributing to Employee 401(k) savings to vesting 100% only when reached 5 year tenure, which is absurd. No Work/Life balance.

Advice to Management

Employees can only stay or come back when you benchmark good governance.

Pros

The pay is good and so are the benefits. The work-life balance is good when things slow down and it is not. so hectic..

Cons

The workload can be very stressful at times and sometimes management can be very insensitive. Also, this company does not offer a pension plan to it's employees.

Advice to Management

Understand that the job is stressful enough, please don't add to the stress by micro-managing.