GreatAmerica reviews

3.7

55% would recommend to a friend

(112 total reviews)
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Martin Golobic

63% approve of CEO

59% positive business outlook

GreatAmerica has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 112 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The GreatAmerica employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Financial Services industry (3.7 stars).

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112 reviews
5.0
Mar 17, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The company culture was my #1 reason of many for working here. From the top down, I felt supported and encouraged and that many opportunities were provided to help me reach my goals.

Cons

The interview process, while effective at identifying good candidates that fit the company culture, can be somewhat rigorous and unforgiving.

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GreatAmerica Response
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Thank you so much for your feedback regarding your employment experience at GreatAmerica! The culture here is truly unique and we are thrilled that you had the opportunity to experience it and we thank you for all of the positive contributions you made to support our work here at GreatAmerica! We appreciate and value your feedback regarding our interview process. We are always looking for ways in which we can improve. We agree that the interview process isn’t short nor easy. We take the time to really get to know our candidates so that we can ensure the best possible fit between candidate, role, and GreatAmerica. Overall, we feel this investment of time and rigor is a benefit to our candidates as much as it is for us. We want our new employees to come into the organization, on day one, with a clear idea of the roles they will be performing and without a doubt in their mind that they have joined an amazing organization! Should you have specific ideas in regards to how we might make the experience even better we always welcome this feedback and encourage you to share your thoughts at applicant@greatamerica.com. Thank you again for your contributions and for your feedback
5.0
Jan 27, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

No, no one is looking over my shoulder, this is an awesome place to work when covid hit they took care of their employees and always strive to do the right thing

Cons

there is a lot of management, so at times it can be difficult to push things forward. On the plus side, there are open lines to bring concerns to any person in the organization

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GreatAmerica Response
5y
Thank you for taking the time to provide your feedback. We couldn’t agree more - GreatAmerica is an awesome place to call home! You bring to mind one of our principles at GreatAmerica: we trust and treat each other with respect. Each of us, living this principle day in and day out, creates an atmosphere that is supportive. We lookout for each other and we empower our team members to do the right thing! We appreciate your perspective that there is “a lot of management” making it difficult sometimes to move things forward. From our perspective, adding new leadership roles within the organization is one way we continue to invest in our people. Promotion from within is a critical aspect of our culture, but we know that in order to maintain the strong team-based environment where ideas can flow easily we must have strong training programs for our leaders and organizational processes. In combination, these assist in providing support for moving things forward. Thank you for this feedback, we truly appreciate it. As a result we will continue to evaluate our New and Tenure Leadership Development curriculum and our organizational systems, such as our Idea Forum, to ensure our team members do feel strongly supported by both so they may get their ideas across the finish line. While we promise this action, we would encourage you to seek out your leader(s) or Human Resources to discuss specifically where there are opportunities to do better – you are an essential piece of our future – and we look forward to co-creating the future we all desire with you! Thank you for your candid feedback and for all of your great contributions to our work here at GreatAmerica!
3.0
Jan 14, 2021

Sales

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Security for employees who want it

Cons

Lots of lower-middle mgmt & # is growing

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GreatAmerica Response
5y
Thank you for taking the time to provide your feedback. We truly value the opportunity to consider ways we can improve. We are a growing company and with this growth comes opportunities to invest in our people. From our perspective, adding new leadership roles within the organization is one way we do this. However, it may be wise for us to continue to consider how we are developing our leaders. We do have several leadership development programs, including Sales Leadership Academy, designed to enable our leaders to be successful in many facets of their leadership roles. While some of these programs have been around for years others are brand new. Either way, we want you to know that we will continue to make concerted efforts to evaluate the effectiveness of these programs, ensuring that they are serving the needs of the broader organization and we endeavor to make timely and appropriate changes as needed. Regarding the feedback on our outlook and numbers for sales, we feel very positive about our strong performance results year-over-year. We will continue to consider the ways we, as an organization, can help enable our sales professionals to achieve their goals. Currently, our sales professionals are encouraged to pursue immersive knowledge in the business channels we serve. One positive in this is the ability to pursue growth within multiple verticals within various business channels creating an opportunity for diversified revenue growth. We believe this provides ample opportunity to achieve big yet realistic sales goals, but we also appreciate the value in taking a step back to make sure our sales professionals feel supported in this approach and in their pursuit of a successful long-term career with GreatAmerica. With the limited information provided it is difficult to know if we are fully addressing your concerns so please consider reaching out to continue this discussion at applicant@greatamerica.com. We always welcome learning more about what we can do to better serve our people at GreatAmerica.
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