RUN - Anonymous employee Centene Employee Review

1.0
Jul 9, 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

You will make friends for life bonding over a shared experience of trauma.

Cons

The mindset of this company is do first plan later. Leadership never thinks about the end goal but will be rushing you to proceed without providing any guidance on what is needed. This creates a situation where you will constantly be redoing the same project. Turnover is between 25 and 30 percent across the organization and the average employee tenure is around 1 year. Leadership has said on multiple occasions that anyone who leaves the organization is not mentally strong enough to cut it here. On the rare occasions you hear from leadership it will be so they can tell you how much better and smarter they are than you. The amount of money spent on redoing the same project or spent churning out hires is in the billions. The Centene business model is not sustainable and will require serious changes for this company to make it to 2030. But hey, stock price is up so as far as leadership is concerned there are no problems. Don't be one of the 10,000 people who leave every year. Save yourself the heartache. I wish I would have.

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