Pros
- young, energetic corporate culture - flexible schedules and a lot of paid time off - individual accountability but people stay team-minded and help each other out. - although I think the front line managers should be more competent, they genuinely care about work-life balance. - great place to get your foot in the door and learn about the insurance industry.
Cons
- reward length of employment more than talent or skill in terms of pay. - entry level employees aren't retained because they seek a large pay increase at other insurance companies - Corporate training for positions (liability / casualty) is a week of conference call and phone-play, pretty ineffective at teaching practical state-based handling guidelines and compliance issues. - Senior Management missed the boat on reaching self-writing customers with the internet sales, instead of taking responsibility, they make excuses. - depending on the week, there will be a different thing that your performance will be evaluated upon. There are seriously 20 different factors that determine our performance rating and any one of them could make or brake your annual performance evaluations (which determines your pay increase) - they do not have mid-cycle raises (or if they do, I have never seen one). - all promotions are pretty much lateral: handling more complex claims does not equate to a pay increase.
