Job Title: Business Analyst
Location: The Woodlands, TX
Submitted on: 21-Dec-04
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The corporate culture is pretty laid back. Dress is casual, and every
Friday you can wear jeans. Some days you can wear jeans, tennis shoes,
and Team t-shirts. Everyone in the company has a cube (not even the
business leaders managers have offices), so there is definetly an open
door policy. Everyone uses first names (so you don't call anyone Mr.
or Mrs. so and so). They provide free breakfast (which consists of
toast, plain oatmeal, grits, yogurt, and fruit)...basically a
continental breakfast. They also provide a lunch which includes, 2
main hot dishes and hot sides, a bar of the day (taco, bbq, etc),
salad, soup, sandwiches, etc. On Tuesday and Thursday they provide
desserts and Friday they have a afternoon cookie break with free
cookies. The company provides free cokes on every floor as well.
Hours can verify from practice to practice. A business analyst can
either work in Defined Contributions (401k), Defined Benefits
(Pensions), or Health and Welfare (medical, dental, vision, insurances,
etc.) I was in the Health practice (which works the most hours). My
friends in the other practices did have to work long hours (50ish + per
wk), but it was less frequent. The health practice has an annual
enrollment period for their clients (this is where participants on that
work for their clients enroll in their benefits for the next year).
For the most part from July - Nov, me and people on my team were
working between 50-60 hours a wk (with no overtime pay). The work
includes processing activities, administration of benefits, analysing
and solving workflows, helping call center workers with questions,
create and implementing test plans, etc. It is alot of multitasking
and being constantly busy and sometimes stress to make a deadline.
The company has alot of attrition, so alot of times you will have to
pick up some work for other teams to help them out when they are short
which can cause you to be working 60-70 hours per week.
There are opportunities for advancement. You must stay in your first
role for at least a year and they normally will not promote someone in
the business analyst role until they have done it for 2+ years.
Raises are annual and fairly low, depending on the rating you are
given, you could get a raise between 2-8%, and they really don't give
many raises higher than 6% especially to newer employees. Also newer
employees get their first raise prorate for the number of months they
have worked.
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