Great Company - Software Engineer CSG Actuarial Employee Review

High energy workplace. No red tape/bureaucracy. Easy to see how you individually contribute to the bottom line. Very competent management who you can respect and will help you grow as an actuary. Excellent salary potential for someone who can pass exams easily. Lots of client-facing work for entry levels.

Small company means not a lot of paid study hours. Workload can be very intense at times and isn't always evenly distributed, but putting in the extra work is rewarded.

The team doesn't feel like a soulless, corporate machine but rather a team of people with personalities working toward a common goal. The work environment is flexible, allowing for a pretty healthy work-life balance with a mix of in-office and remote work days. The company, at least to me, has always seemed to strive to adhere to ethical business principles. I've also always felt like I'm treated as a person and not a mere "cog in the machine". Additionally, while I am aware that at least one coworker holds to very different political opinions to myself, the environment is very apolitical and I've never clashed with anybody over politics. Of course, that's partially my own aversion to discussing politics in general, but I've not heard discussions of politics in office, so if you don't start them, they probably won't happen at all.

I often don't feel the impact of my work, even when I'm told that I did well on something. It often feels difficult to feel fulfilled, despite the good working environment, and I think this is partially due to the fact that there is such a large gap between the developers and the product users. Some might consider this a good thing, though, as it means you don't hear the negative feedback directly, but for me it is a negative.