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Bear River Mutual Insurance Reviews

3.6

69% would recommend to a friend

(32 total reviews)

Don Adams, Duffy Pingree

78% approve of CEO

74% positive business outlook

Bear River Mutual Insurance has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 32 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Bear River Mutual Insurance employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Insurance industry (3.6 stars).

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32 reviews
1.0
23 Mar 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

I spent 3 years rewriting Bear's software. Truly a thankless job

Cons

Confirming the same IT Dept leadership problems. Probably the most toxic, back-stabbing, manipulative, accusatory place I've ever worked. They love to blame. I've watched this company blame internal developers because another company's application went down. Your metal health will suffer. None of the promised industry training ever materialized. Every expense is spared for development. They actively sacrifice experience and knowledge in favor of AI, vibe-coding and buzzwords. They keep the IT dept locked out of the systems required to actually do the job. Devs don't even have access to install anything on your own VM. You have to go thru an IT ticketing system and have a network tech do a lot of the work for you. So IT owns it, but you're responsible for it. It really is as bad as it sounds. They really don't care if you go above and beyond, raises and bonuses are formulaic and targeted to management. They see people as easily replaceable or disposable.

3.0
26 Dec 2025

Fair

Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Great people to work with

Cons

Salary adjustments are made to feel like they do you a favor when most of the time they either match or undercut COLA... thus you never feel like you get an increase for any of your work performance or quality.

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