Pros
I greatly respected and enjoyed working with everyone I met in the Research, Analytics, and Development department.
Kontras
I was in this job for seven and a half weeks. I was hired in June and started work in August. Then, in October, most of my division was laid off. All eight of the new hires in my role were laid off. Five of my twelve teammates were laid off. My boss's boss was laid off, as was my boss's boss's boss. My boss's boss's boss's boss retired the day before, either in protest or because he knew he would be laid off the next day too. In total, I believe 70 of us were laid off. The communication of the layoff was about as bad as you can imagine. I actually told my boss about it before he saw because I happened to see the email from the head of the department first. There was no reason given except some impossibly vague nonsense about reorganization. I simply got a call from HR saying I needed to turn my computer in and leave. Five minutes later I was in my car driving home with my head spinning. The next day, HR hosted an information session where we could ask questions. Bizarrely, for an hour, they either repeated exactly what we had already been told the day before or angrily ranted at us for asking questions that they didn't have the answers too. I'm still in shock about how ill-prepared they were for even the most basic questions. I barely did anything in this job. The first eight weeks of the job were structured as training. We prepared to take the first CPCU exam, did some self-study on Coursera, got our laptops and phones set up, and learned some random stuff about insurance and data analysis. But before the eight weeks were up, we were gone, along with most of our department, and given no official reason why. Perhaps the strangest moment came when I turned in my computer. HR had told me to drop it off with the man who had sent the email two hours earlier announcing the layoffs and and who had presumably been involved in the decisions about having layoffs and who to cut. I had never been in his office before. His door was open, but out of respect, I knocked on the door anyway. He was at his desk, typing something out, maybe an email. I knocked again, and this time he turned around to look at me. He stood up and took a step toward me. He didn't say anything. I said, "HR told me to leave my computer with you. Is that right?" He said, "Yes." I put my computer down and looked at him. I was wondering if he was going to say, "Sorry", "Thank you", "Good luck", or anything else. He just stood there, staring. I walked away.