State Farm reviews

3.4

52% would recommend to a friend

(19,825 total reviews)
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Jon Farney

50% approve of CEO

47% positive business outlook

State Farm has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 19,825 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The State Farm employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Insurance industry (3.6 stars).

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1.0
Aug 24, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

The benefits are world class and include a pension which is the reason I started work here in the first place. It’s also very diverse and LGBTQ friendly.

Cons

At the end of 2017 it was announced that the call center in Tacoma, WA would be shut down. We were all called to building wide meeting in the middle of the day and told simply that we’d close down operations at that location. We were told when, if we’d still have jobs elsewhere, nothing and were then expected to go back to work and act like everything was fine. For months on end we didn’t know anything and during that time there were know counselors to talk to and moral was so low that a large number of the building quit. We were finally told that we would have to reapply for our jobs at other locations and it wasn’t a guarantee that we’d keep our jobs. I understand it’s just business when it comes to closures but the way they handled it was all wrong. They ruined so many people’s lives and the people that are left are exhausted from constant call queue’s and mandatory overtime every week. There is no moral and no one cares.

2.0
Jul 31, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Benefits are good with a health program discount. You get an exam with labs from doctor and complete a survey and save every month for the year. You feel a sense of accomplishment helping people on a bad day. The team environment is good for help even if a manager is lacking.

Cons

The managers have varying levels of experience. Many managers have years of claim experience but no teaching skills. Expectations are to be across the board, but are so subjective that they are not. I had 8 managers or managers in training over 3 years. As soon as you are clear on Expectations, you often have to leave for another work group/manager. I left a higher paying job for work life balance. I got that about a year. I had Fridays and Saturdays off. The last 2, I had split days off. So lower pay, and no work life balance. There are periods of non-optional overtime. It's not called mandatory, people with ADA's would be an exception to that rule.

2.0
Jul 12, 2018

Once great, now average company

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Pension, training, strong financial reserves

Cons

Company is searching for a new identity. Overall good intentions to maintain future relevance but execution of poorly laid out plan to transform the IT shop has decimated its ranks. It's been successful in trimming some of the fat but in the process lost even more skilled employees who no longer saw a career with SF. Moral is low, trust in leadership is broken, and worst of all the transformation appears to be minimal with little ground gained so far

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