Good People, Dumb HR Direction - Lead Security Engineer The Hartford Employee Review

3.0
12 Oct 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Like any large company, some of this is going to depend upon where you are. In a prior role, something like training got very hard to come by. Currently it is very easy to get top-notch training. -Many very smart people to work with -Lots of challenges and opportunities to work with interesting technology -Great learning/development/training opportunities -If you are fortunate enough to not be within ~25 miles of an office, great work/life balance (at least where I am) - 401(k) 100% match of first 6% plus 2% floor - Lots of PTO

Cons

HR makes some really bad choices. The pandemic choice of not allowing employees to roll vacation or sell it back when this had been an option all the years prior was a big miss. Upper management was very disconnected to the struggles of working families during this time. (UM: This is great, I'm taking the time to paint my house! ME: You must not have 5 kindergarteners trying to remote learn with a paid college student actively destroying your place...) Mandatory return to the office 3 days a week if too close to an office is a huge miss. A lot of good people are going to leave over this one if the policy is not changed. Can be very hard to get things done due to process, bureaucracy, and agilling the heck out of everything.

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