employer cover photo
employer logo
employer logo

Farmers Insurance Group

Is this your company?

Farmers Insurance Group reviews

3.2

44% would recommend to a friend

(6,854 total reviews)
avatar

Raul Vargas

42% approve of CEO

42% positive business outlook

Farmers Insurance Group has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 6,854 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Farmers Insurance Group employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Insurance industry (3.6 stars).

Reviews by job title

7K reviews
3.0
May 6, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Excellent benefit package, both lateral and upward career growth opportunities. Direct manager and small department cohesiveness, support, knowledge sharing, mentoring. Ability to interact across business units and earn respect, develop personal rapport with others.

Cons

Disappointingly, continued culture of finger pointing; as opposed to BUs working as one team towards resolution, not overwhelming courage to accept personal responsibility when something goes south.

4.0
Apr 7, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

A good company native to California. In good time of course, many opportunities within different departments, claims, sales, customer service, underwriting, etc. Working as an agent is good if you don't need to make money at first, but if you know a lot of people you will start making decent money fairly quickly. For the really dedicated and successful sales agents, there is a pretty good bonus program based on sales. There are many different insurance products to offer in order to get new business and renewal commissions. Sales agents are basically self-employed and incur most expenses with some help from the company for certain things though. Once you get a good client base, one can make a lot of money from renewals alone.

Cons

Some of their processes are not very customer friendly. Not all people in the service centers know exactly what to do and have conflicting information so it can be frustrating trying to get things resolved quickly. When first starting as an agent, you only receive commissions only on sales. Unless you know a lot of people who will buy insurance from you, you won't get paid. Self-employment can be a downside also since all expenses such as advertising, office space (you can work at home though), employees once you need them, are all up to you to pay for. You can get a lot of Farmers materials for free though to get you started. Another bad thing is that they don't have as many service centers in CA anymore, they are in different states. That can be difficult since people need to be licensed in a different state of their own, different rules to follow so not everyone will be as knowledgable.

3.0
Mar 2, 2009

Satisfied at Farmers Life

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Very solid exposure to financial analysis, in addition to a solid corporate culture, and much room to grow. My co-workers made the office a very lively place and provided many opportunities for positive collaboration on projects. It is very easy to get promoted to a "Senior Financial Analyst" which has no additional bearings outside of the title. While most of these promotions do not entail salary raises, the acknowledgment is definitely a positive thing and the fact that the company doles out promotions echoes the importance they place on recognizing their hard-working employees. Overall, I was very satisfied with my work here.

Cons

It seems as though there is a bit of a "glass ceiling" for those employees without MBA's from highly regarded B-Schools.

Viewing 6598 - 6600 of 6,854 Reviews

Glassdoor has 7,401 Farmers Insurance Group reviews submitted anonymously by Farmers Insurance Group employees. Read employee reviews and ratings on Glassdoor to decide if Farmers Insurance Group is right for you.