If your employer is of smaller size, they will have greater leverage to match rates with larger plans because of transparency which could help you a great deal. Further, your company could have leverage with their insurance broker to provide better pricing / options based on public data.

If you cared enough, it might influence your choice of employer. Also some employers offer plans from multiple insurers. At my current employer I can choose between a Kaiser HMO and a Cigna PPO.

Even in the high demand field of software engineering the vast majority of people don't have the option to choose between multiple jobs to take. You take what you can get. Not unlike healthcare in which you usually have no say in what healthcare you get when you need it.