Quite an awful experience... - Anonymous employee Centene Employee Review

2.0
Apr 17, 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The corporate campus is very nice. Pay and benefits are reasonable. The company continues to grow quickly and opportunities for development and exposure to different parts of the business are plentiful.

Cons

Google scholarly articles on "toxic work environments" and you'll have a highly representative synopsis of the culture at the corporate office. Too many managers are remnants of the days when the company was a smaller player. Their ideas and ways of doing things simply no longer work. Senior leadership provides no purpose or direction, other than stock price growth, Fortune ranking growth, campus expansion, etc. Once the novelty of all these "exciting" things wears off, everyone is left to determine their own rationale for coming to work on a daily basis and the struggle for relevancy and resources has led to a really bad case of infighting. There are certainly a lot of good people working there, but I've never experienced so many hostile and progress preventing people in my career.

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Cons

1. It's an old white boys club. I say that as a white individual. It sucks that's how MFN rolls. They say they value diversity but they don't. They will have a token diverse person in an exec role but they're there to be a face, not make any changes or impact. 2. They pay really well but that hurts when you leave. 3. They layoff the good people and keep the undereducated white males. Why? See #1 above. 4. They don't want you if you are female and over 40. Think I'm lying? See the number of females 40+ who got hit in the January "reorganization." 5. HR is a joke. Talent acquisition couldn't find their rear ends with both hands and a map. So many excuses on why they didn't do their jobs. 6. MFN said the HealthNet employees needed to learn the Centene way and the Centene way would prevail. He lied. 7. They never entertained the idea of working from home. At all. Even a 25% WFH option would cut costs and improve morale.

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