Nationwide's IT environment is made up of processes and controls. - IT Specialist Nationwide Employee Review

2.0
2 Jun 2010
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Pros

There are a number of great applications to learn and grow from as well as the people who developed them. Work/life balance is good depending upon the team. If all big organizations are as bureaucratic then this is a good place too.

Cons

Innovation has stopped. It seems there are more people monitoring development than actual developers. Roles have been defined so narrowly that there is no accountability for quality. Applications and processes are produced in isolation, that is, it appears the end users are never involved in development of a solution but are required to use it. Blame is more important than solutions to an issue. At least three reviews have to be made to different groups before a fix to an implementation error can be made. And pray to God a release did not cause an outage of any kind... Processes are more important that fixes, or so it seems. The word "defect", once reserved for manufacturing processes, is used here for "human error". You need thick skin to work here as a developer. It could be true at other places as well, but this is the first place I've worked in which it is used.

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5.0
30 Sept 2025
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Pros

Room for advancement outside CRE, great culture overall the work life balance is great. Pay and benefits are competitive. Nationwide as a whole has a fantastic Culture, however not all departments are equal.

Cons

its hard to write out cons, overall I really enjoyed my time at nationwide. However the department I was in was ran was ran by a clique IE high school drama and gags. if your in, your in.

4.0
17 May 2026
Recommend
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Pros

-For the most part, the people you work with are good people. Made real lifelong friends and mentors. -As with all large companies, there are plenty of opportunities to advance and/or move around if something isn't a good fit. -One of the rare places still offering a pention

Cons

-Office politics promote plenty of people who don't deserve it and the teams happiness is highly dependent upon who you end up reporting to -WAY too much false urgency created by bad leaders -Big company means slow moving in all the stuff you want to go fast. Often times too many cooks in the kitchen

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