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Farmers Insurance Group reviews

3.2

44% would recommend to a friend

(6,852 total reviews)
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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 6,852 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).

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7K reviews
1.0
Jun 23, 2012

Dissatisfied

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Somewhat flexible work schedule. Intensive orientation.

Cons

Ongoing training is practically non-existent or impractical after orientation. Low pay compared to similar positions at other companies. Health benefits are expensive (high deductibles and high premiums). High stress environment, difficult to maintain healthy work/life balance. Workload can vary drastically week to week, but you must work exactly 40 hours every week (even if you have '50 hours' worth of work to do). This has lead to employees working while clocked out for lunch in order to get everything done. Heavy emphasis on productivity, virtually no emphasis on customer service or quality of work. High turn over rate. Poor communication and change management. Information is practically delivered through the childhood "telephone game", where each person modifies the content to their liking, prior to passing it on to the next person. This has created huge inconsistencies in how claims are to be handled.

1.0
Oct 28, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The only reason for working at Farmers, is the existing employees that have worked for the company. A family like atmosphere in the offices. Still great friends, even though I have a problem with the company.

Cons

Downside with Farmers is they play mental games with the employees, objectives that are almost impossible to meet. Employees are always working under the threat of losing their job. In the office where I worked, all employees including supervisors were under an action plan because of not meeting objectives. Upper management does not care about employees, middle management will do whatever it takes to get a promotion. It is a very stressful environment to work in. Those that stay, do so because they have so many years in with the company, but probably should leave for their health. The company wanted to downsize in 2010, to do this, they fired employees throughout the company to avoid unemployment and severance pay.

1.0
Aug 2, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

flexibility of scheduling time off

Cons

only the "chosen ones" get promoted if you don't have good numbers in the "matrix" you don't go anywhere

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