Accelerant Reviews

3.4

53% would recommend to a friend

(21 total reviews)
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Jeff Radke

63% approve of CEO

42% positive business outlook

Accelerant has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 21 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Accelerant employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Insurance industry (3.6 stars).

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21 reviews
1.0
Sep 25, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Flexibility, ability to hide (if that is what you want - but very strange for a small company), fully remote working if that is what you want. Senior management / founders are real visionaries but that is where it ends, unfortunately many heads of departments are out of their depth.

Cons

Almost no benefits in the UK, may not get the best line manager, flat structure does not allow for career progression, difficulty in being able to put forward your ideas, often no-one will listen and you find it hard to understand why you got hired. Often decisions already made so unable to contribute if that is what you joined for. Almost zero collaboration as not only it's difficult to do so fully remotely, but also if you end up with the bad line manager, you will be totally dismissed in your ideas and will be able to do nothing about it as there is no way to go above your line manager. No HR, but they have few really stroppy and not pleasant people (that are generally disliked internally but still kept on!) to fill in that function. Poor / non existent company culture - since everyone is remote. Poor work life balance for those who are conscientious. The above very much depends on the line manager.

1.0
Jan 25, 2024

Proceed Cautiously

Recommend
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Pros

At first it was a great experience. Top notch team of people coming together. Flexibility and lots of opportunities to travel and collaborate with coworkers.

Cons

The higher up management team seemed to work in packs that would always compete with one-another which created a toxic environment. Pure nepotism geared towards those in the family/friends club. The technology solution that I was a part of was designed by people that did not understand technology and engineers were forced to attempt to create the solution designed by non-technical people in a strict waterfall-like collection of requirements (disguised as Agile) that was endless. Engineers were not allowed to engineer alternate and more logical solutions and any attempt was met with hostility all the way up the line. It was my understanding this was sold to investors before engineers were even hired in house and they continued for 2 years to save face. At the end of the day, they fired the engineers who tried to make it work and then shifted the blame for their poor decision making. They brought in new engineers that basically had to start from scratch in the same situation. I wish them well.

1.0
Dec 14, 2023

Repeated Layoffs Leave Morale in the Gutter

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Fully remote. There was a good deal of travel in 2022 for employee meetups, though VCs have since tightened the purse strings and that largely no longer exists.

Cons

Watching many of the most devoted employees get laid off to appease investors in early 2023, then watching the CEO turn around disparage them in a company-wide meeting as a "bad fit" afterwards has extremely negative effects on morale. It leaves everyone who's left behind wondering if they'll be in the next round of layoffs, or whether there will even be a company in the next few years. This isn't exactly the sort of environment that fosters innovation. Occasionally the CEO will refer to employees as "co-owners", though how this label manifests in reality is completely unclear. It certainly doesn't mean equity or job security.

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