Progressive Insurance reviews

3.9

75% would recommend to a friend

(8,999 total reviews)
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Tricia Griffith

88% approve of CEO

77% positive business outlook

Progressive Insurance has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 8,999 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Progressive Insurance employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Insurance industry (3.7 stars).

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3.0
Jul 30, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Good benefits Better-than-average pay Liberal company - big emphasis on diversity, GLBT community involvement, etc.

Cons

Weird shifts - if you work in the call centers, be ready to work evenings and weekends. Even if you eventually become tenured enough to received a better shift, it's not guaranteed to last. Overly corporate - over emphasis on metrics. Be ready to play a numbers game to make your stats look good, rather than doing what's best for the customer. Repetitive - Even the more advanced claims/customer service roles become painfully repetitive. The benefits are great, but you'll be beating your head against your desk in 9 months. Demanding - The emphasis on metrics has created this "ever year must be better than last year" mentality in regards to efficiency. But at the end of the day, people have limits to how efficiently they can work over the course of an 8 hour shift. If you take a job here, be ready to work like a robot. No talking to your neighbors, no self-enrichment activities... just work as fast as you can for the full shift. Promotions are competitive - don't bank on it unless you're a rock star. If a supervisor position opens up, there will be 20 applicants.

3.0
Jun 3, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Great teammates. Good company overall. Helpful in many ways. Decent pay. Chance to work from home (which I did). Gainshare is nice at the end of the year.

Cons

Very stressful job and the company only makes it more stressful by not understanding that we can't solve every customers problem. It's a call center so expect to be busy. No real help on how to handle irate customers and Management isn't really there to help you with these customers. The company is now very micromanage which only adds to the stress. It's claims so unfortunately there is never a black or white answer. It's always gray.

4.0
Mar 18, 2015

Really Hated to Leave

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Pros

It's difficult to discuss pros, because a lot had been changing with the company during the couple years before I left. Many positives were becoming negatives as I made the decision to leave. Laid-back work environment. No one breathes down your neck. Breaks, lunch, etc. are very relaxed. The atmosphere promotes relaxed people, so you'll enjoy your coworkers and you'll make friends there. You can probably work at home. Pay and benefits are solid for the work you do. Paid training - they pay you to get your insurance license.

Cons

No more flexible scheduling, which Progressive used to be famous for. They now use performance-based scheduling, the outrageous unfairness of which is hard to comprehend. Although Progressive puts way less emphasis on numbers that certain other companies do, they still put too much emphasis on numbers, and not enough emphasis on the way you actually do your job and the ultimate bottom-line results of what you do. The company is way too modular, with different departments unwittingly working against each other.

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