Vantaggi
I enjoyed my experience at Anthem, and my manager, for the entirety of my tenure there (which was 5 years). My manager made sure that I had a robust work/life balance, everything I needed to work from home full time, and that we were well taken care of during our in-person biannual PI planning sessions. Pay was average, but bonuses and benefits were good.
Svantaggi
Beginning in early 2019, IT has been moved overseas. Stakeholders are not honestly informed at what changes are happening, and the work culture has become a toxic waterfall of "do all this programming to make everything more 'streamlined'" and "teach all these 'new employees' who are totally not stealing your job, how to do your job". Layoffs are done monthly (and have not paused even throughout the pandemic, even though Anthem is making bank from COVID), and only a handful of American workers remain present at the company. To keep the bad press away, Anthem donates huge amounts to charities and supports human rights campaigns, all while slashing their American workforce under the guise of "having a new vision" and positive change. Every Thursday is now a typical layoff day, and word is that Anthem plans to move their development, claims, and design to their overseas, privately owned contracting company in India, by March 2021. Before this nonsense, I planned on being at Anthem for life.