Tremendous technical debt, TG program a huge failure, millions of dollars waisted.
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As someone who worked at allstate in 2011-2017 when IDE became a thing, the leaders in the division chose people based on if the new hire knew someone higher up or not OR the applicant had ......get this ..... instagram. You read that right, your ability to REGISTER for INNSTAGRAM determined your technical prowess.
Once thr team got tohethet, yhey were able to enjoy countless catwred panera and chipotle meals. They would occassionqlly allow the pesants (the NON yes people) have nibbles of their left overs.
There needs to be a criminal investigation in how the fiirst 100million was spent a decade ago So much money was wasted to preserve a bunch of mo--ns.
They could even get free coding from chat GPT
Never at this rate. Best bet is to get out or just wait until you get that nice severance package at the next RIF.
I work for a different multi billionaire company and it is crazy how much faster and quicker change is here. Also, don't do layoffs every year (literally were layoffs happening when I was an intern!)
Asc is nothing more than a more modern policy language. Why its taking so long to roll out and so much hoopla is insane.
The fact that allstate diesnt force new policy changes and updates through contractual endirsements is ancient logic.
We still have customers in 40 year old policies that were written for the most insane polucy conditions.. and that they still keep these policies while we have rolled out other policies is even d-mber..
Only allstate would have 4 different versions of a standard auto policy and think they simplified it
Well said! Where is the Internal Audit to review the original ASC business case against the current state? Tom is a smart guy, so why does he let Suren/Julfie/Kamal, and the rest of the yes men they have surrounded themselves with, get away with never delivering anything of substance while wasting millions every year?
I can't see this new direction being anything other than a monumental failure. ASC feels like a failure waiting to happen. Any interaction I have had with anyone in that org leaves me feeling that Allstate is going to implode if they're the ones in charge of delivering the future. A series of bad and illogical decisions, no interest in listening or learning from others and an attitude that doesn't promote success makes me feel that Allstate is going to see a real downturn when customers see what ASC has to offer.
I have no confidence that Zulfi, Suren or other senior leadership have the ability to turn this around. TG, CEME, TSA, OBD and ASC are just buzzwords that have no weight behind them. No one will ever admit to being wrong, even with empirical evidence to prove it. There will be no rollback of these initiatives, they'll just move onto a new set of buzzwords as they do every two to three years anyway.
I feel the culture internally is more fearful. People aren't happy. It's not an atmosphere that's going to breed success. My immediate managers know that what's being asked of us is awful, but no one wants to say "no" because it's a culture for "yes" people inside a small internal org.
Insurance industry in Illinois has gone to the dogs (and not the cute nice ones)
"Lipstick on a pig" ! Exactly the phrase I used to call out the widely unqualified Property and Casualty CIO when he communicated the sudden change in direction of the TG soution architecture. Needless to say, I and others who articulated opposition to the proposal were let go. Just ask one question has the combined ratio improved as a result of the enormous IT investments? Ask for data. The answer is no!
They are already regretting the poor idea of moving all of service to these vendor suppliers. The reactions of customers and quality of service are already in the toilet. But never will Tom and the corporate swine ever admit that they failed. They will keep steering this patched up hulk of a vessel towards the iceberg and then blame the grunts for not steering it away. Our reward? A highly taxed severance package and leadership that act like they give a sh-t. Ironic that Wilson, Suren, Rizzo, and the rest of the slimy corporate pigs are creating more Mayhem in this company than the talentless Winters could ever portray in a commercial.
The India job reviews are not that good already and many disgruntled employees there posting reviews.
The running hilarity of throwing millions at TG and a new target state architecture and then backing away when they figured out what it would REALLY take to deliver and modernize the company. Throw in all the old timers who have staked out political territory and continue to operate in their own interests with cover from their managers. Now the bright idea is to put lipstick on the pig and put a glossy new front end on the old legacy systems vs. actually getting the sh-t to flow through new plumbing. It'll be great.
Don't point any of this out though. That's why Suren has the people in 'leadership' positions that he does. He's an old fashioned command and control dictator and he wants 'yes' people. All those 'immersive DPM leaders' that Zulfi was promoting in his last townhalls? Yes people. Shifting IT jobs and management to India? Yes people. People who will take orders and paint senior leaders a picture of the company they want to see.
The bonus is that when management once again fails to address these underlying issues, they get to the end of the year and their latest thing has failed to produce the results the yes people told them it was producing, they get to lay off a few thousand more people in the U.S. And maybe jack up premiums some more. It just keeps happening over and over.
A never ending eternal dumpster fire all around. Eventually the facade of "but muh higher stock prices" will come crashing down as the incompetence and failures of Tom and the leadership of this company continue to pile up.
The people of India will bow down and lick boots and such for an IT position of any kind. Tom and Mario and the new Irish looking character love India. You should too. Let ‘em go and let ‘em eat cake ! We are toast !
Is "never" a choice?
What competent IT leader would meet with Tom and his team and decide that they want to be part of that, that they would be positioned to succeed?