Burns & Wilcox Reviews

Pros

The first 4 weeks were amazing. The onboarding experience was well organized, thorough and very refreshing. The entire team was very supportive during the learning phase.

Cons

None that I can think of so far :)

Pros

- Introduces you to the reality of corporate life

Cons

- Littered with office politics - hardworking employees who put in non-paid overtime are not recognized. - any questioning of their method is met with deflection (to keep you quiet).

Pros

-Good downtown office location on Bay st. -Good place to learn how to not build a good company culture / atmosphere and what poor management looks like.

Cons

-Compared to other employers in the industry, employees at Burns & Wilcox Toronto are underpaid, have longer standard hours, less paid time off, underwhelming bonuses and have much worse benefits packages. -Despite what upper management tells its staff, the company has a poor reputation in the industry which is apparent as soon as you attend an industry event and start talking to people at other companies. -Junior staff are set up in a sweat shop model of brain numbing processing with very high turnover rates with managers that don't care about them. -Toxic culture is rewarded with underwriters and mangers able to get away with bad behavior as long as they are bringing in the dollars and meeting their sales targets. Dollars are more important than culture here. Management not brave enough to let bad apples go because it would affect business numbers. -No standard casual Fridays, and if there is you need to pay to dress casual with a charity donation from your already underwhelming salary. -Culture of nepotism and favoritism. -Sexism: Two male managers are well known by everyone for automatically disliking any new male employees because they are men and not a young female -Leadership only pays lip service to carrying about its staff. -Everyone at the company knows that Burns and Wilcox Canada management apparently asked Glassdoor to remove a previous bad review... You can bet after this review there will be a witch hunt to find out who wrote it

Pros

It will make every other job you ever have seem amazing in comparison. There's some good people so once you all quit it's nice to share war stories and show off your scars.

Cons

Everything. There's rampant nepotism; if you are one of the trusted few you have free rein. You will get promoted beyond your abilities and will be given the choicest business. The sky is the limit and you should never leave because you won't ever have it as good. If you're not one of the lucky few, you will experience the exact opposite; Impossible targets that have no basis in reality, constant pressure to work late or at home with no rewards for doing so, bonuses taken away indiscriminately, and a constant fear of being fired. One senior manager once told me that if he doesn't like someone, he'll get them fired. Not because of performance, but because of some strange grudge with no basis in reality that he held against his next victim. Unbelievable turnover, well over 100% during my time there. Terrible reputation in the industry, which is why they are unable to hire any experienced talent unless those employees have a black mark in the industry. At first they were able to hire respected talent, but that ability disappeared once those people quickly quit or were fired for questioning how the business was run. Management has an aversion to listening to other people's opinions and are unwilling to change how they operate even if the suggestion is well-reasoned and will help the company. It is the insurance world's last resort. I'd never experience random people in the industry telling me that I need to leave a company for the sake of my career. Literally every person I've spoken to after leaving has asked me if all of the terrible rumours are true; they are.