Chased good people out and hired mercenaries - Corporate Marketing Verisk Employee Review

1.0
Oct 25, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Older employees used to have good benefits like pension and profit-sharing. That's all gone now. At least some of the lucky ones can work from home.

Cons

The CEO is actually happy that most employees are new. His attitude confirms that recent companywide turnover must have been intentional. Now EVERYONE is forced into CYA/survival mode. The new workforce is mostly made up climbers and backstabbers.

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5.0
Jul 1, 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The people are awesome, the culture is strong, and they are terrific career opportunities.

Cons

Getting a little too “doing more with less” happy at the moment

2.0
Jun 30, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

The people. I worked with genuinely talented, hardworking colleagues who showed up for each other and for the work, even when leadership made that hard.

Cons

Leadership at the senior level was chaotic and unclear, and it trickled down into everything. Projects routinely landed with little to no notice, leaving teams scrambling instead of planning. Budgets were micromanaged from the top while strategic direction was not — a strange mix of tight control over spending and almost no clarity on priorities. Communication from senior leadership rarely made it down to the people actually doing the work, so teams were often the last to know about decisions that directly affected them. There was also a clear undercurrent of fear among some senior leaders that discouraged any real innovation or experimentation — better to play it safe than propose something new. If you're someone who thrives on clarity, planning, and a culture that rewards new ideas, this is not that environment.

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