Go the Other Way - Anonymous employee Centene Employee Review

1.0
Sep 15, 2021
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Insurance is ok…but that’s all

Cons

1. Very Disorganized 2. Relies on consultant companies to do development during short term engagements. When the consultants leave their knowledge leaves and your left to backwards engineer the system that they built. 3. There is no such thing as a SME when gathering requirements. No one knows anything 4. The company grew too large to fast. When acquiring new companies they failed to make any effort to integrate technologies and lines of Business 5. I didn’t know that PI Planning could be 5 days long 6. As a Product Owner I was expected to sign off on very complex architectural systems that should’ve been signed off by an architectural manager BEFORE DEVELOPMENT STARTED!! 7. Very waterfall 8. I personally asked, for around six months, for an Architect and Tech Lead for my team… I was given 3 BA’s and a Scrum Master… 9. No support from Leadership 10. They don’t believe in org charts so no one knows who reports to who, which makes it Very hard when gathering cost functional requirements. 11. Post pandemic, don’t expect to ever work from home. The CEO is really old school and believes in buts in seats 12 hrs a day If you are in ST. Louis this company may look amazing, however if you are in Charlotte there’s so many more options.

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