I have a great job. I'm considered very valuable but I can tell my VP three levels above me is annoyed by me. Basically the issue with anthem, is that these executives operate as if it's beneath themselves to communicate to you directly to fix ongoing issues. They operate surrounded by with overpaid aides and mid level management that has no skills other than administrative work, so it creates alot of dysfunction. My main point is never feel comfortable with your job at anthem no matter how valuable you feel bc these ppl don't care about Innovation or problem solving -only power. This is definitely not a skills and development company- only an administrative one.
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You know Anthem has someone reviewing and randomly responding to these post. Sounds like this is what just happened.
You must be one of those executives
Positions within the company are all political. To survive you have to know someone important that likes you. Too late for me, they laid all those folks off.
The 2nd way to survive is to stay low and quiet. Working hard to impress means more work into the night.
I can tell who is working late and not. 16 hour days for some folks, others clock out at 5pm. They will keep the 16 hour folks and politically many of the 5pm. It is not what you do, it is who you know.
It is not a healthy work environment. Covid made it worse since now that you work at home you can work all day and all night. And due to local lockdowns, if you take time off, they still expect you to work since you are at home.
You cannot reason with senior management. Just do as you are told and stay quiet. And when covid is over, find a better job. Or find a great boss within the company. If anyone is left.
My position was eliminated 18 months ago. I now work for smaller co, lower pay but a great environment. Pre-covid and work at home, if I saw an Executive in hallway they were very open and engaging. Not stuck on themselves or position at all.
I do however work through my immediate Director with suggestions.
Loving my new environment. Good luck and this is sincere, a lot of really good people working at Anthem.
Oh please, this company is so top heavy it's a wonder that it doesn't topple over or sink into the mud. Have you ever noticed that with every round of layoffs there's almost always a corresponding hiring of more executives? They'll let one go and hire two to take their place. It's ridiculous. I have a manager, two directors and four VPs of one level or another in my org chain. You want to talk about "expensive man hours", there it is, right there.
Why should an executive 3 levels above you who oversees thousands of people give you the time of day if you don't have anything of vital importance to share? If you have something innovative, don't you have someone to report to whose job it is to filter out your useless ideas? Honestly, if you waste people's valuable time and are salty about everyone between you and them, it sounds like you ought to be tossed out posthaste for costing a lot of expensive man hours.