Working at Travelers in Hartford, CT: 22 Employee Job Reviews by Real Employee working in Hartford, CT Area

"I am with Travelers for the past 9 years"

"I worked as an Insurance Processor in the Premium Audit department of Travelers Insurance for fifteen years. They employ over 30,000 people worldwide. They have an excellent benefits package and offer upward mobility."

"I've worked for Travelers as an advanced analytics intern. Overall, Travelers is a company with good work life balance."

"An interesting and challenging job in a good way as far as the original intent of the position but is now being pushed into being a claim representative and internal referral resource for outside consultants. Not managed well at all."

"Travelers is a large P&C insurance carrier, the people are hardworking and the overall atmosphere is a positive one. The one challenge is the amount of segregation of duties and the need to leverage different areas of the organization to get your job done. There can be a lot of waiting on others."

"Employee’s over 50 with 20, 30 and 40 years of service are being fired (without cause) at alarming rates with TRV destroying lives of loyal personnel all to reduce expenses for the bottom line. TRV has become a company unwilling to utilize the knowledge and experience of dedicated employees."

"I have been in management with Travelers for over 12 years. For the last 3-4 years I have felt guilty about how upper management treats our employees. There is a "yes man" culture among the management team and differing opinions seem to get individuals blacklisted. It was ok in the local office and even worse while I was on the Cat team. Some of upper management don't seem to understand the strain of trying to meet unrealistic expectations has on employees. Unrealistic productivity expectations result in low employee morale. I am almost ashamed to be associated with Travelers from a management perspective. The pay is keeping a lot of disgruntled employees around and that is never a good thing. For the record I am an above average performer but the treatment of our field property employees is horrible."

"Good company. Work culture is also good."

"It was a great place to get started in the IT world. I was pleased to give every ounce of my hard work to a well respected company. Everyone was helping each other to get things done in a timely manner, and the supervision answered all questions that were given to them in a timely manner."

"I have been working in the Travelers Claim IT Division for about 6.5 years. It is a .NET shop that uses mainframe modules to access legacy DB2 and IMS databases both real time and in batch. However, I find that the project management processes are not fluid and change very frequently. I have been able to deal with that change. As a company, Travelers compensates its employees well. There is not a lot of upward mobility and I've observed that the potential reason for this is employee longevity."

"I found that during my six month employment with travelers that there was a lot of bureaucracy that hindered the progress of the project. While the overall work experience was positive there were a few mishaps here and there that could've and should've been avoided."

What do you like about working at Travelers?

"The people made the job excellent. Everyone hired was brought on for a very specific skill set and everyone worked well with each other."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Skill set is important and knowledge in multiple environments an absolute value. The corporate environment is very much just that. Team building is minimal but corporate growth is possible with the technical background to support it. Be prepared to work hard and compensation is possible."

What don't you like about working at Travelers?

"Management seemed to have a disconnect with the employees. It was tough to get projects approved in stages. Micromanaging was not a problem as long as it was kept up on but more responsibility should have been left in the hands of the employees."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Trust in the employees to make conscious decisions for the company on a project by project basis. They have the most direct access to the data and user feedback and their opinions are absolutely valid."

What do you like about working at Travelers?

"I like the reputation it has had over the years and that it is a stable company."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be as conservative as possible as they are very traditional in their style."

What don't you like about working at Travelers?

"I think because it has limitted turn over they lack the innovation due to not having many new employees join their company."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"They need to hire more external candidate that can bring diversity of ideas to the tables."

What do you like about working at Travelers?

"It is a decent working environment with somewhat flexible working conditions. Many great tools to expand my skills are made available."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Study the job requirements and be prepared to relate those to your experiences."

What don't you like about working at Travelers?

"The working environment may be flexible, but the culture is very rigid, as should be expected at a hundreds year old institution. However, my main disinterest with remaining at this company is the permanent need to relocate to Hartford Connecticut."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Senior and executive management has a tendency to shuffle staff around on a regular basis to be more efficient. However, when staff changes dramatically on a near bi-weekly cycle, the efficiency gains are offset by continual learning of new roles that needs to be conducted."