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Selective Insurance

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37% positive business outlook

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38 reviews
3.0
Sep 19, 2017
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Pros

Selective has very good products, knowledgeable people, a good agency plant and many long-term employees. The bonus plans make total compensation rewarding, but the goals are very difficult to meet. Without the bonus, if you are in a production role, the financial reward for the hours/effort that must be expended is not in balance with the requirements of the position. Flexible working environment (ability to work remotely) is a major plus, but can also be a deterrent from feeling connected to others in the company and to knowing what is going on in the company in general.

Cons

Selective has extremely high work loads and goals for production with a large amount of home office oversight/personnel, report writing and little technical support and administrative help. The amount of data is overwhelming, difficult to find and to interpret. Communication from home office to field is poor at times. Many managers have been with company for many years (and with Selective only) and are not open to thinking that there may be a alternate and/or better ways to do things and they are not very inclusive to outsiders who are not long-term Selective employees.

1.0
Sep 15, 2020
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Pros

nothing to be mentioned as pros

Cons

i worked here as full time employee with my work visa, during initial days i noticed people were ignoring me and talking irrelevant, later i felt isolated as i was the only person in my team, my manager asked me to interact with other people in different team who sits beside me and asked me to teach them the technology and hire them into my team, coworkers from other teams frequently harassed me to teach and hire them into my team, as i was busy with my work i could not encourage them and after an year i realized that my co workers are interested in my job, and the people who i was dealing with are even more racist, i got trapped into something unusual and they revoked my visa , which ruined my career, my manager who is VP ,management and employees are very much racially separated that they encourage people to take over my position and i was left without job with revoked visa and struggled lot to survive , some stuff at my work place were missing and some were sent broken, i would suggest never go to this place. When ever there is any event i noticed people with different race are separated and management never involve people from other race to get involved. higher level management including VP and not trustable.

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Selective Insurance Response
5y
This is not the experience we expect for our employees. Thank you for sharing your thoughts, and you're encouraged to contact your former HR Manager to discuss further so we can review.
2.0
Sep 28, 2020
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Pros

Ceo has a good vision.

Cons

Very biased and the managers only supports few individuals They allow people to work from India for months together on visa. Not sure how it works but I hope its legal.

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Selective Insurance Response
5y
Thank you for adding your review. If you would like to report any concerns, you may contact the Ethics and Compliance Helpline at 866-299-8412.
1.0
Jun 11, 2020

Don't be fooled

Anonymous employee
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Pros

I can't think of anything except if you're in the core group that management approves of then you're going to be fine here.

Cons

Where to start.. Clicky.. Very Clicky. If you're liked you're fine, if not it won't be long before you're out. They will fire you! I was harassed the manager still has a job and I chose to leave. Story of every woman. Work life balance is awful.. Just awful. You're expected to do the job of 3 other people so it's very tough to leave your desk.. Forget time away, even a day off is a nightmare to return from! They make it seem glamorous but in reality it's probably the most corrupt place. Managers do the mistakes horrible things behind closed doors, trust me.. I was one of them. I heard and saw for myself. The pay seems great until you add the hours worked for it.. Then not so much.

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Selective Insurance Response
6y
Thank you for sharing your concerns. We take allegations seriously and encourage you to contact our Ethics and Compliance Helpline at 866-299-8412 so we can review further.
5.0
Jan 14, 2021

Great Company

Recommend
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Pros

Strong management team, excellent financials, Opportunity to express ideas

Cons

Work life balance, Some incentive plans are one size fits all w/out taking territory nuances into play, some toxicity in a small few middle managers have led to some longer term we’d looking for new opportunities

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Selective Insurance Response
5y
It's great to see your 5-star review and that your experience is a very positive one! We will share your constructive feedback about incentives and management/supervisor opportunities, but you're strongly encouraged to discuss this with your HR Business Partner or leadership so we can learn more specifics. Thanks for sharing your thoughts here.
1.0
Feb 13, 2020
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Pros

nothing to mention as pros

Cons

My advice to everyone: please stay away from this company. I was hired as a cloud engineer, and I have several stories to give you a sense of how poorly employees are treated. The general themes: nonmanagers are not listened to, and their time is not respected. A key issue with poor employee treatment relates to management. Often I’d find myself making progress on a project, only then to have my work put on hold, and sometimes undone, as project goals changed without any apparent reason. Furthermore, managers who were in my meetings everyday did not acknowledge my presence and acted annoyed whenever I spoke with them, even when I offered cordial greetings such as “How are you?” Management also was inefficient while I worked there. They chose to adopt a cloud system that I immediately noted was inefficient and wasted tons of money. My years of experience at the company and the requests from my manager to train another employee on the team, it seemed, did not make my advice worth listening to, and it took four to six months before management came around to my point of view. How the workload is distributed also causes problems here. Most IT work depends on offshore contractors or is delegated to people on work visas. Those who work within the company are frequently required to work long, hard hours or risk losing their jobs, which is exactly what happened to my roommate when he did not accept slavery-like work demands. For example, an employee accidentally deleted data, and I was tasked with recovering it. However, the cloud environment was poorly designed, so the process of recovering the data was convoluted and time consuming. Still in the process of recovering the data, I was nearly fired by managers who were taking advice from a trainee. During the meeting, I did not feel as though I was given space to defend myself and remained silent. In another instance, I solved an issue in the environment and reported on how I solved it. Needing to catch up on work that had been put off to solve the issue, I blocked off my calendar. This was overridden when someone outside the department, who I told would need to wait until I could fulfill his request, copied my manager on an email to set up an appointment. This caused me to work longer hours and showed a blatant disregard for my time. This kind of occurrence was not uncommon. In summary, I did not feel respected as an employee while I worked here, thanks to managers who would not listen to sound advice, overwork employees, and disregard the time employees put into the job. Again, here is my advice: stay away from this company.

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Selective Insurance Response
6y
Thank you for taking the time to share specific observations about your experience. Your feedback has been shared with IT Leadership for their review.
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