Swiss Re reviews

3.9

74% would recommend to a friend

(2,277 total reviews)
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Andreas Berger

72% approve of CEO

64% positive business outlook

Swiss Re has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 2,277 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Swiss Re employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Seguros industry (3.6 stars).

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4.0
Dec 19, 2011

Very flexible

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Great people and excellent work life balance, also there are several opportunities to travel.they provide various training programs to help develop each individual professionally

Cons

I am fairly new to the company but a few people have complained about the salaries within the past years-

5.0
Dec 9, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

It is a very open environment, you can easily reach out other people in the organization and generally they will welcome you and openly discuss topics you want to know. It is a fair environment and even when there are conflicts, normally they do not escalate to certain level of unfairness I have seen in other big companies. It is a big company but with the style of a smaller one, in the more positive sense of the word

Cons

Speed is quite slow for most of the things, change is quite difficult because of comfort zone.

2.0
Dec 7, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Pay and benefits are decent. Used to have good expense accounts and some in office perks but all of those have been taken away gradually over time in the US region. Zurich is still awash in benefits, resources and amenities.

Cons

If you are based in Zurich, you get a wealth of benefits no one else in the company gets including 1% mortgages, credit cards, free food every day, beautiful health /gym facilities, an extra 4 weeks vacation after 10 years with the company among others! If you work anywhere in the US, you are not considered valuable, important or worth much more than the dirty desk you sit at. Despite the fact that the North American region represents about 50% of Swiss Res' global profits, we get likely 15% of the resources and benefits that Swiss Re allocates. The rest goes to Zurich based staff. It is time to start investing in your non Swiss employees so your turnover won't be so horrific. Good people are leaving Swiss Re in droves and are being replaced with low paid staff who steal from the office. The economy isn't that bad that qualified employees won't find jobs. Only the losers will stay because they know they can't find work elsewhere.

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