Nationwide reviews

3.8

72% would recommend to a friend

(5,422 total reviews)

Kirt Walker

77% approve of CEO

64% positive business outlook

Nationwide has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 5,422 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Nationwide 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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5K reviews
1.0
Jan 11, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Zero. Nothing. Nada. Zip. Toxic. Abusive.

Cons

Mandatory overtime has been the norm for years but no CAT pay. If you don’t work overtime you’ll be terminated. Your benefits package includes PTO but you will not be approved to use most of it because only a few people at a time are approved. Your medical policy will have such a high deductible you’ll never reach it unless you have ongoing medical issues. You will not be given adequate training, training material, or access to a supervisor to assist with questions. You will be given negative quality scores if you make an error on things you never received training on. The Total Loss office is severely understaffed but upper leadership says we are adequately staffed. As more and more Total Loss associates quit they are not being replaced and those remaining are being assigned delinquent accounts. The tools you are provided include outdated Excel spreadsheets which continuously lose their formatting. You will be expected to manage out of office activities, emails, and voicemails for other associates. You will be required to work overtime to work your coworkers claims. You are required to work claims activities for other departments who cannot keep up even though the Total Loss office is more behind than those departments. You will manually type documents because the system does not generate documents correctly. You will be expected to monitor other business units activities because the system does not work as intended. You will have zero support and will be responsible for coordinating the entire claim. You will write estimates. coordinate the locating, release and pickup of vehicles. You will resolve coverage issues. You will generate paperwork. You will obtain payoff quotes. You will field escalations. You will process alternate salvage. You will follow up on paperwork and settlement disagreements. You will manage rental vehicles. You will process payment, transporting the vehicles and communication with shops on repairable vehicles. You will handle agent and lien holder escalations. You will process letters of representation from attorneys and communicate with them. You will run DMV searches. The list of job duties Nationwide Total Loss adjusters are responsible for is far more than the job duties of Total Loss adjusters at other insurance companies. Leadership will tell you to hang on because positive changes are coming that never come. Process changes will be made before tested and nothing will work. You will be given work arounds that then become part of your job duties. Total Loss management will allow managers and associates from other business units to send you work, correct you, and critique you. You will not have the support or backing of your management team. You will be repeatedly told Nationwide values people, a home work life balance all while they put people who refuse overtime on performance plans or terminate them. Your coworkers will go on FMLA for nervous breakdowns and stress related health issues. Your coworkers who are terminated for not working overtime will be denied unemployment. Leadership will have management conferences where they jokingly compare complex claims to kitchen remodels that are never completed. Make no mistake about it this company does not care about the health or well being of their associates or members. They care about profit.

1.0
Jul 7, 2022

Abusive cult

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Time off is great, if you actually get to use it and they leave you alone during that time. Remote / hybrid flexibility if you throw a big enough fit.

Cons

If you work with high level executives, you will be abused. Period. They fully discriminate against women, per the MAGA CEO's wishes. Everyone is afraid of being axed so they do everything they can to hold others down. HR has become a placebo. It's only there to make you feel better, not to enforce anything. It's the most demoralizing place I've ever worked. Nationwide values? They value old white men.

1.0
Mar 31, 2022

Horrible company

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Coworkers are kind, work from home

Cons

I applied for this company being told that it valued time spent with clients, longevity of calls, and that how many calls we take a day would not be a focus at all. This job is people centered and the worst we would experience is 20 calls a day. My time frame I worked was adjusted against my will, I was changed teams, and then quickly it became clear that yes, this company does not care. Every single member of management pushes for less than a minute in between calls, a feat that would require roughly 100 calls a day. That is an inhuman expectation. When not meeting that expectation, when taking more time to breathe between breaks before the nightmare continues, that is unacceptable to this company. This company does not accept refrences to outside companies, which when I told my friends this they advised me to contact the better business bureau as this seems Inhumane. This is an assembly line where any beneficial change for the members takes not months but YEARS to take place and any problem that is voiced by the team is ignored by upper management and pushed under the rug. The health insurance I have with an INSURANCE company is borderline mediocre. There are no paid days off at all. I believe that if I had a serious medical injury that took days that I would be fired instead of cared for. I have voiced my complaints numerous times only to be met with "Well to be a Nationwider you'll need to do better" I take 80+ calls a day. My roommate worked in a call center for the biggest internet provider in the area and that number is insane to him. It is not enough for this company. Employees will be wrung out of every last single drop of energy they have and all berated for not doing enough. This job has severely negatively impacted my mental health and wellbeing, and with the nightmarish schedule we are forced to work that lasts the entire day that is the expected life. There is no guarantee of movement in this company, there is no guarantee of anything beneficial for the employees unless we take 100+ calls a day with a smile. We do not speak to clients anymore, we speak to agent's assistants. They do not want to be spoken to in a positive fun interaction, likely because they have just as many awful contracts to deal with on the daily that we do. This is a Neverending cycle of unhelpfulness. We are punished for asking for help at this company, too much on hold time when asked the 60+ new issue of the day leads to bad numbers. Numbers are more important than people at this company. I was promised by an old manager that this company would never count numbers heavily and that interactions with clients are what matters. I have gotten numerous, dozens of positive reviews from clients. This does not amount to anything and does not matter, the fact that I do not take 100 calls a day is the only defining factor for doing well at this company. If the assembly line isn't running fast enough you berate it to do better, no matter the quality of interaction it produces. My heart goes out to every single employee at this job, especially the contractors. They will not be treated like human beings until they are run into the ground. I will never recommend this company to anyone, I will actively tell everyone to avoid it like the plague. I have half a mind to still contract the better business bureau for the inhumane "agreement" as the old manager described it as not allowing refrences. Once you're in this machine the company will not even refer you for any work you've done, trapping you more. This company is a failure and treats it's employees like robots. End of story.

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