Production line atmosphere of Life Underwriting is forcing awesome employees to leave by the double digits - Life Insurance Underwriter State Farm Employee Review

2.0
20 Jul 2008
Recommend
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Pros

The other employees, the way you do feel a part of a family with other employees, nice office atmosphere, nice buildings and campus. The lower level management really does seem to care about employees.

Cons

The production line atmosphere that life company has adopted, the completely demoralizing atmosphere and the way professional level employees are now treated like kindergartners. Upper level management brought in a consultant group that more or less told employees if you don't like the production line, leave, we're happy to hire college grads off the street to replace you, we can pay them less and we can make them into trained monkeys who won't know anything different from the production line and they will be happy

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5.0
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Pros

Great leadership, great culture, work-life balance

Cons

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3.0
8 Mar 2018
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Pros

(At the time) Fair pay and predictable bonus structure They were pretty good at covering travel expenses and paying them back quickly Diverse workforce & diversity initiatives Fun and funny coworkers Opportunities for growth Again, this was all four years ago and has likely changed

Cons

(At the time and now, according to other comments) Arrogant to a fault Total lack of innovation & willingness to innovate Odd attachment to the company's past (which prevents progress) High number of veterans (20+ years) who are determined to get that retirement money, and therefore, are resistant to change and technology Heavy reliance on command and control management style Poor decision-making that leads to losses of all kinds

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