Nationwide reviews

Too big and too many senior leaders. Granted working in Iowa wasn't the greatest place, but the attitude of the leadership was sooo much better than that of Columbus leaders. I felt like at least I had a vaild opinion speaking to Des Moines Senior Leadership. Another con is that this company underpays. I did not realize it until I got a generous job offer somewhere else. Turns out what I get paid now is standard for my position, but is $15,000 more that what I was paid at Nationwide. The last con I can think of is the reorgs...I was in one position for 2 years and had 3 different VP in that time span. People did not necessarily leave, just reorged with different responsibilities. With a new senior leader, there was always a different vision, it was just hard to keep up.

Unfortunately, reading through all the cons, I agree with so many of the cons already listed as well. There is a narrative that it is easy to move up, and for a select few that it is true. But for a vast majority, it’s completely false. I have also been unlucky enough to have some terrible leaders. I learned first-hand, people don’t leave companies, they leave poor management. There is a lot of pressure to be 5-star engaged. Engagement is your own responsibility. If you don’t play your leaders forced engagement games, you aren’t engaged. (I absolutely value engagement, but there are natural ways to engage your teams). We spent more time tracking our work as we did actually working. My mid/senior level role began to feel like an entry level role, and therefore a huge step backward in development. If something can be tracked, it will be tracked. If you think something can’t be tracked, someone will find a way to track it, and report out on it daily. (Literally we had sticker charts like an elementary student) Even though our teams were permanent work from home, there was a lot of pressure to come back to the office. (Which seems odd considering so many teammates don’t even work in the state anymore).