Toxic Leaders - Software Engineer Verisk Employee Review

1.0
Jun 13, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

The office space is modern, clean, and well-equipped, with ample room and facilities. Flexible work-from-home policy allows for a good work-life balance when not under pressure. Decent benefits and a global footprint that gives exposure to international teams.

Cons

Some managers are toxic and manipulative, regularly assigning 8-point tasks as 3-point tickets to set employees up for failure — later using missed deadlines to justify poor performance reviews. Discrimination is a serious concern. Several colleagues, including myself, observed and experienced bias against employees outside certain ethnic groups. Reporting issues to HR or upper management leads to retaliation, isolation from team communications, and career stagnation. Raises and bonuses are heavily tied to manager reviews, which can be unfairly influenced by personal bias, not actual performance. High performers are often demotivated by a lack of recognition and unequal treatment.

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5.0
Jul 1, 2026
Anonymous employee
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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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