QBE Reviews

Pros

Great flexibility and work/life balance, ability to work some days from home to meet parenting responsibilities. Leadership opportunities for all levels. Managers are generally high performing, decent people. Sense that the company is going somewhere.

Advice to Management

While there has been a lot of executive change in recent years, much of this has been necessary. I’m hopeful that the new leadership team will work well together, and we will have a period of stability.
The flexible work policy is fantastic (and the no 1 reason I work for QBE), but I’ve received some feedback from colleagues that it can be inconsistently applied at lower levels in the company.

Pros

Looking to change and pay is good.

Advice to Management

Change to the ways of working. Roll out more cross-functional ways working.

The greatest assets of an insurance company is its staff, data and IT infrastructure. Culture needs to change to empower employees. Its data needs to be fixed to help it make decisions. It’s systems need to bought in line with the 21st century to allow it to be agile in market.

Pros

nothing much to be honest. They say, a lack of culture is a culture.

Advice to Management

Invest in management and leadership development because its almost non-existent.

Pros

Pay and benefits are good

Advice to Management

Identify where the company is going. Constant transformation aka change is not a successful strategy.

Pros

Not much to be honest

Advice to Management

Get your selves sorted out

Pros

-Culture
-Flexi hours
-employee benefits
- breaks
-QBE foundation
-Opportunity
-People

Pros

Flexible, team environment, good culture, share a common goal, T&D

Advice to Management

T&D sooner and have all sanctions in place for newbies

Pros

QBE is finally starting to form a great culture and figure out their people make the company. They have embraced more new ways of thinking and they have some great employee led programs like their indigenous inclusion RAP committee , their LGBT inclusion group ‘QBE Pride’ and ‘The Circle’ which is women related. If you want a company focusing on diversity and inclusion, it’s great.

Advice to Management

Focus on retaining people. Sadly, you couldn’t retain me even after 13 years. Don’t expect to utilise their advanced skills and not reward them in return.

Pros

Great Australian employer with truly global insurance ops & global career opportunities. Approachable leaders that do consult with operational teams. Several effective global rewards & recognition mechanisms for all staff. Inspirational new CEO for Australia & New Zealand ops with strong people & culture focus, not that I thought it was lacking previous. I can attest to the Australian leadership team being truly good quality human beings that I trust with our strategic direction. Flexibility available to those doing the right thing if/when it suits business operations & your role. Modern office environments.

Advice to Management

Really loving how flat the organisation is becoming with information flow, communication, transparency & access to senior leaders. Keep it up, the teams appreciate it.

Pros

Global company with the benefits that brings. A new CEO may make a significant change for the better

Advice to Management

Staff are leaving for a reason. Look at departments with high turnover and try figure out what the root cause is - is it line management or something else?