Progressive Insurance IT Application Programmer reviews

4.7

93% would recommend to a friend

(38 total reviews)
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Tricia Griffith

100% approve of CEO

99% positive business outlook

IT Application Programmer employees have rated Progressive Insurance with 4.7 out of 5 stars, based on 38 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most IT Application Programmer professionals have an excellent working experience there. Progressive Insurance is rated 28% above average by IT Application Programmer professionals compared to other employers within the Insurance industry (3.7 stars).

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2.0
Sep 17, 2015
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Pros

Relaxed, laid back culture. There are a lot of different things you can work on throughout the IT department. The work-life balance is great. The campus is nice. This would be a good job for someone looking for stability.

Cons

A lot of the technology is outdated. People just do their job and not much more than that. There isn't much innovation, and you will likely work with many people who are lacking in skills and understanding of modern technologies and just programming ability in general. With many employees having worked at the company for many years in an environment of low-growth and hacking on badly written code, the problem of trying to transition out of outdated applications, let alone write decently-built applications is a significant effort. You are expected to work for at least a few years to be taken seriously. The culture and values that are touted seem to be contradictory to the general working environment. Although there may be a few teams working on some cool things, most of IT participates in dull work.

4.0
Feb 13, 2015
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Pros

The best thing about Working at Progressive is definitely the relaxed culture. Work life balance is great. Flexible working arrangements, and managers who really know how to make the employees feel appreciated. Appreciation is something a lot of companies take for granted. I think it is very easy to shine if you are in a project that lets you have the opportunity to. There is a very high retention rate as a lot of people celebrating over 10 yrs working for the company. Benefits package is very good if you are single. Been told around town that I have the best insurance in town when I use it at any networked facility. Great classroom learning as well as access to online classes to learn new skills.

Cons

Onboarding process needs a lot of work. There is a lot of down time while waiting for project assignment. Very large projects also mean movement is very slow. Definitely will kill any motivation if start falling in step with the crowd. The long timers also have a sense that they are just doing this until they retire. But if you don't want to fall into the crowd and bad habits you will need to learn new skills on your own. But you many never get to use those skills as most of the fun projects are fully staffed. The bad thing is getting stuck in the tail end of a project where you have to follow blindly what to do. PROCESS and procedure is almost insane. They don't let people who are clearly not performing go.

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