Berkley One Reviews

All of those experienced people are overworked, stressed, tired, and just SAD. There is a shockingly high attrition rate, and even when the company does well you are left to feel under appreciated and almost "punished". If you come here, be prepared to sacrifice your family life--most people who succeed don't have kids, work long hours, and don't care about the lack of flexibility, so they get promoted. Senior management runs the show like dictators, but pretend to be positive. They sent an email last year stating you were "not allowed" to work from home if your child was also home, you were expected to take the day off as PTO or sick--which in many cases is not practical (considering how many days the school system has off, plus time you OR a child could be sick, you wouldn't have any time for an ACTUAL vacation). Some managers will be quiet and try to allow the flexibility but it's at the risk of their own career. We are all forced to be in an office 4 days a week, everyone is worried it'll become 5. They monitor badges, anytime someone leaves all of a sudden senior leadership shows up to sniff out the "culture" and make sure everyone stays in line. A shocking amount of people have left this company. People retire early because they just can't take it anymore, management can't manage, and no matter the incentives they can't get people to come here. Every single week, it seems a good person is gone. We are all so used to it, it's like "who will it be this week??". There are also no development opportunities. They talk about it all the time, and seem to want to create it, but who has the time? Everyone does the job of 5 people and change is slow. They want to be just like Chubb, but they took the worst of what that company was.

Low pay, VERY strict in-office culture. Things were really great, until they weren't, and it happened quick. The new culture is very heavy on not being able to work from home, their postings even say you can work from home one day a week "when it makes sense." AKA they don't want you working from home. It is heavily implied that they don't trust their employees even though their employees are the only ones that get the work done. Management is very top heavy (why does an underwriter need 4-5 levels of management in a 150 person company??) and they seem to conspire how to implement more strict rules while making employees believe it is for their own good and development. They are also consistently promoting people who are NO good in management which shows where loyalties lie, with people who drink the kool-aid and will enforce their prison-like rules with no questions asked. And when you are in their office (which is full-time, non-flexible), you are within their prison and their rules and they make it known. Pay is low, flexibility is almost non-existent, managers can be nice and approachable but are unable to actually support you because it is all top-down management and its very very clear this company only cares about return to shareholders. I have seen good managers be bullied into submission and its a lose-lose for both of us. My performance reviews were 'exceeding/above average' and I never received more than a 1% bump, even after the company became 'profitable' after its start-up stage, when we were promised we would receive more pay. In fact, the year the company was 'profitable' and I had my strongest performing personal year was the year I got my lowest ~1% bump. Most companies do only really care about returns - but this company doesn't make it a secret any longer and my manager literally apologized to me when I was told my 'increase,' because they knew I deserved more but their hands were tied. Your pay, work-life flexibility, and development will come second to their unachievable bottom lines and then they will use those unachievable goals as justification to not pay you above your below-average salary. Funny how they promote 'profit sharing' but then won't share profit when the company does well. The President is a nice enough lady on the surface, but considering she allows all of the above to happen and is OK with it (she's not stupid so can't play dumb), I can only come to the conclusion that she is fake and I cannot recommend her, her management, or her company. Most of these people are fired Chubb employees and have taken the worst of Chubb to create the 'culture' here. RUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!