Tech and Ethos

Our data warehouse supports critical workloads, making data correctness essential. We built a custom CLI tool to compare tables generated by code changes in PRs against their production counterparts, reducing unintended changes in production.

In this blog, we’ll explore how Ethos tackled this challenge by building a robust and scalable system that could manage these dynamic changes efficiently.

In this article, I hope to give you a peek behind the scenes into what day-to-day life is like working on one of these teams.

If you realize a high level of turnover in your analytics department, ensure you are not lowering the expectations of your analyst’s role and that you are raising the analytical mindset of everyone else.

Now that our team has had a grasp of bug escalation and triaging, our next phase involves working more closely with all of our corresponding teams to make our product better and more efficient. Using operational excellence leads to fewer bugs, more net positive launches, and ensuring that our stakeholder experience is smooth.

In pursuit of Ethos’ quest to protect the next one million families, we have worked to expand beyond our D2C and agent channels into the enterprise space. As part of this initiative, we collaborated with our partners to better understand their needs and how Ethos could best support them.

At Ethos, the design team is tasked with creating experiences that make life insurance simple, accessible, and affordable for everyone. Traditionally, life insurance has been a long, arduous process involving medical exams and weeks of underwriting. Ethos is changing this with a simplified underwriting process using predictive modeling to provide instant decisions

The interview is the first step in an insurance application. It is the process of collecting all the required data from the customer for us to underwrite the application. The interview not only serves as a digital replacement for a traditional paper application, but also enables us to ask the customer the right follow-up questions