QBE Reviews

Pros

Great people and great offices

Cons

Too many management not enough room for promotions

Pros

Easy work to complete and regular travel

Cons

The organisation is set up to fail

Advice to Management

Value your people and make a decision

Pros

Great work environment Work Life Balance

Cons

Limited career progression Limited opportunities to grow

Advice to Management

Need more attention to long term staff for career progression.

Pros

Highly supportive team Huge network both nationally and internationally A transparent organisation that emphasises the importance of meeting employees' needs Very flexible work environment with several key benefits

Cons

Very competitive environment Fast-paced culture which can be very stressful for some people

Pros

Good Brand, good policies, going through a lot of changes providing a lot of interesting opportunities to learn and contribute. Good salary package.

Cons

No company culture and no controls over managers, leaving opportunity for some of the best team management when the management is good, and some of the worst is the manager is bad. Some teams have record high level of turnover, for very legitimate reasons. Any person interested in QBE should do a thorough due diligence on the specific team they are going for before joining.

Advice to Management

If you want your strategy to be implemented, you need to have strong relays for your culture and your vision. Put stringent controls on your Heads Of, Senior Managers including anonymous 360 reviews, anonymous peer reviews, turnover measurement, etc. Get your HR to sit with the teams at least once or twice a week to really feel what is happening on the ground. It is a great company, you want to make sure you... attract and keep great people.

Pros

Collegues are generally good people, great to work with.

Cons

Terrible Management with below average leadership skills Poor culture

Advice to Management

Regretful career move.

Pros

Some departments and managers genuinely care about their staff. Decent brand recognition due to sponsorship. Some career development opportunities due to organizational size.

Cons

Toxic politics is rife within the organization. Mainly driven by incompetent middle managers. These individuals do no work, so they spend their time playing politics and harassing junior staff. The best junior staff leave due to carrying the dead weight and this only exacerbates the problem.

Advice to Management

Too many layers of middle management with little to no benefit to the organization.

Pros

* Some commitment to diversity * Some commitment to work flexibility * Reasonably current productivity technology (laptops, Windows 10, good video conferencing). * Good offices * From a very low base, things may only get better, especially in earnings

Cons

* it's a boy's club, and an underwriter's boy's club at that * No evident commitment to a long term investment in the business, it feels like it's for sale * Really old and unacceptable underwriting and claims systems. Mainframes, in 2019! * Given the above, the operations of the business are under unsustainable cost pressures with poor customer service, overwork by staff, inaccurate processing and poor record... keeping endemic. Even very senior staff advise their reports to start looking for alternatives * The Australian business earns most of the profit for the company, but gets a small part of any investment. * Significant confusion between the roles of the global head office and the Australian operations. Constant conflict between the two. * Arbitrary dismissals * The place is driven by fear * Any earnings increases are unsustainable. They are possibly driven by the sale of existing businesses and the expense cuts already mentioned

Advice to Management

* If the business is for sale, then get on with it