Chaos every month - Systems Administrator GEICO Employee Review

1.0
29 Feb 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

IT is still currently fully remote

Cons

The company has been in chaos since 2022. Layoff after layoff, some announced, others not. The appraisal metrics were adjusted to give virtually every employee a 3/5 and used as justification to not give out raises. Systems admins have to cross-train to be developers, developers have to become systems admins, although at the rate things are going they might just lay off all system admin roles. Some substantiated rumors are flying about an extremely aggressive plan to rank developers quarterly (Not sure how that's going to happen when everyone gets a 3) and put the bottom 10% on a 45-day 'improve or terminate' plan. The only reliable source of news is the employee subreddit. IT employees are being hired remotely with no written guarantee of being able to stay remote.

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5.0
24 Jun 2026
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Pros

The pay was and great training

Cons

The lack of shifts they have available

2.0
26 Jun 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Interesting problems to work on. Good benefits. Decent pay.

Cons

Managers will gaslight you and upper leadership is constantly changing, so expect projects you're working on to be thrown out every 6 months. Many people burn out and quit after some time and are never back filled, so you'll be expected to take on their workload. Some of my colleagues were working 80 hour work weeks to keep up with the work load and yet told they were not performing well enough. There also wasn't much diversity.

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