Progressive Insurance reviews

3.8

74% would recommend to a friend

(1,733 total reviews)
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Tricia Griffith

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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.

4.0
Jan 2, 2015
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Pros

Progressive is constantly introducing new technologies which provides plenty of opportunities to learn. Laid back culture. If you're driven, you can easily succeed.

Cons

Doesn't encourage commuting for the lower tiers in the Infrastructure teams. Some technologies are very old, luckily the transition to newer equipment has been going on for a while now so a lot overlaps.

1.0
Dec 21, 2014

Horrible place to work

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Pros

"Gainshare." Every employee of Progressive gets a Gainshare bonus at year end, which is not performance based and non-discretionary. It is solely based on Progressive's stock performance, policies sold and other economic factors. It's a nice benefit.

Cons

This job was the worst job I've ever had. Everyone is completely overworked. We were expected to work every night and every weekend. They fired half the staff and did not replace them, they just expected the remaining employees to work 80 hour weeks. They rule by fear and everyone constantly felt that they were going to be fired. My department hired about 15 new lawyers in 2 years and every one of them either quit or got fired. Nobody ever stayed there longer than a year or so. We also went through 3 managers in 2 years. Truly a toxic work environment.

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