Allstate reviews

3.5

54% would recommend to a friend

(11,239 total reviews)
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Thomas J. Wilson II

64% approve of CEO

54% positive business outlook

Allstate has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 11,239 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Allstate 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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11K reviews
1.0
Aug 3, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good work life balance, good benefits, substantial amount of paid time off.

Cons

- bare minimum pay scale. No matter what level of education or ability you have when you start here, it is not considered in salary unless you have prior experience with insurance. - 80% of managers and liability consultants are under-qualified. They have no management experience or training prior to getting the position. They appear to be promoted to that position because they are "good friends" with those already in that position or the claim office manager. - Promotions - do not exist at Allstate. If a position is open and above trainee level in a claims office, it is never advertised internally. You can't apply for the position or interview for even internal positions. When the position is announced to the office, the person they are filling it with is announced in the next sentence. -There is no defined process or method for how a promotion is considered or arrived at. This is extremely demoralizing. -The better you do, the more work they give you. Everyone knows this so they do minimum in order to keep from getting more work or extra projects. When extra projects are given, no compensation or reward of any kind is given for excellence.

3.0
Jul 28, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Benefits are pretty good, they treat good employees very well and there are a lot of different opportunities to grow.

Cons

Some of the direction of leadership is hard to follow, they don't finish a project before moving on to the next.

2.0
Jul 28, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- young, energetic corporate culture - flexible schedules and a lot of paid time off - individual accountability but people stay team-minded and help each other out. - although I think the front line managers should be more competent, they genuinely care about work-life balance. - great place to get your foot in the door and learn about the insurance industry.

Cons

- reward length of employment more than talent or skill in terms of pay. - entry level employees aren't retained because they seek a large pay increase at other insurance companies - Corporate training for positions (liability / casualty) is a week of conference call and phone-play, pretty ineffective at teaching practical state-based handling guidelines and compliance issues. - Senior Management missed the boat on reaching self-writing customers with the internet sales, instead of taking responsibility, they make excuses. - depending on the week, there will be a different thing that your performance will be evaluated upon. There are seriously 20 different factors that determine our performance rating and any one of them could make or brake your annual performance evaluations (which determines your pay increase) - they do not have mid-cycle raises (or if they do, I have never seen one). - all promotions are pretty much lateral: handling more complex claims does not equate to a pay increase.

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