Pros
The bottom 90% of the company is filled with some truly great people that care a ton about the customers and coworkers. If you get on a good team it can be a highly rewarding experience. Compensation is pretty good, but has to be weighed against the headaches you'll experience below.
Cons
This used to be a great place to work. But since Gail has taken over daily life can be equated to an eccentric yet equally depressing mix of Dilbert and Office Space. Work from home and flexibility is being eliminated at every turn. There has been substantial internal pushback by some managers who see the negative impacts of this but they are overwhelmed. Several highly talented people left (or “retired” if the person is high enough) the company in recent months. If you have the honor of working here get used to random and substantial RIFs. They used to be announced as Organizational Updates, but now you only find out when you go to contact people you’ve worked with for years and their email is undeliverable. The average professional associate is often being asked to perform monumental tasks with Lilliputian resources. Besides the RIFs, getting any sort of investment expense approved to advance a project is near impossible. Even if managers and directors understand the issue there is no support in the C Suite as Gail has surrounded herself with yes-men who will not question her. Yet for all those struggles, if Gail wants a trivial thing changed it will be ordered to be done. Anthem spent millions to accelerate their financial close in order to get her essentially estimated financial figures a couple days early. Understand this, your personal life does not matter to leadership. The one thing the new leadership is good at is announcing their perceived accomplishments. Typically you can witness this in the grandeur of a quarterly Town Hall video meeting. Exacerbating the issue is frequent nepotism within the upper ranks of the company. Many VPs and directors are woefully unprepared to handle their jobs but were hired as someone the CFO or CEO knows personally. Executive leadership can best be described as conceited.
