Farmers Insurance Group reviews

It can be stressful at high volume times when you have claims calling all the time. Its not so much Farmers, but the insurance industry as a whole. We are not trusted from the get go. I do not like the changes that Farmers is making to the benefits, but they are still better than what you find at other companies. You can make up to 25% of you annual salary as a bonus that is given out each March. In my opinion the health insurance is quite expensive. I believe it is about $100 a month just for me. It would go up even more if I added my wife.

People who have been with the company for a long time seem to be left out of promotions. Management does not recognize their importance and how valuable they are. They are often left on the sideline doing “special project”. Salary is generally lower, because they claimed there was Profit Sharing. However, Profit Sharing is going away in 2009 and there is no salary increase to make up the difference. The benefits used to be very good, but they are also changing in 2009 and not for the better. They are combining vacation days with sick days. Employees get a set number of pay-time-off, sick and vacation days both count toward the pay time off, so it is really up to the employees not to get sick. The company is extremely cost-saving minded. They don’t like to spend money on virtually anything.