Allstate reviews

3.5

55% would recommend to a friend

(11,231 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 11,231 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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3.0
Feb 23, 2009
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Pros

The prestige to say I work for Allstate is pretty good, you get a lot of nods of approval. The pace of the job is not so bad, you might get to meet a lot of interesting people at some points and you wont really have to deal with a lot of difficult tasks.

Cons

Commissions are ok they are not the greatest if you work for an agent. The agent i work for was very cheap with his money so he never gave us raises, rewards, or anything special. He wanted to keep every commission sale and wanted to charge us for every policy that cancelled. He would rarely spend any time at his office and he would leave me and another coworker to do all the hard dirty work, especially to deal with angry clients was tough enough. You have to establish a base of clients, and try to retain them with the company, its even harder when their rates keep constantly going up!!!

4.0
Feb 22, 2009
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Pros

Like many producers, I work for an independently owned agency. My time is my own, as long as my numbers are where they should be. My office is very much family focused. I get an ample amount of vacation, sick pay, 401K and a lot of other benefits not supplied by most independent agencies.

Cons

Allstate itself has a tendency to roll out a new product without first getting the bugs out of it. We tend to have to work through some of the hassle as we write the product, when that should not be happening.

4.0
Feb 21, 2009
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Pros

Great amount of time off - after your first year you get 20 days (paid) off as a salaried employee. The 401k match was usually pretty generous, but the economy may have now changed things. Before I left, they changed the pension to allow you to be able to access it after your first year of working there (yes, they offered a pension AND a 401k). Managers were pretty flexible with time off at the time. You're pretty much guaranteed job security due to the amount of claims that tend to come in. You get to understand a product that everyone needs (insurance) better.

Cons

HEAVY workload. I don't think the leadership thinks realistically about how many people they should hire to help carry the workload. Our goals were pretty stringent and (again) based on some unrealistic attainments. An e-mail was once forwarded that you should never expect anything over an "Meets expectations," on your yearly review - this was sent as a joke but is more real than what you might think. If you are new, never expect to get any part of the week of thanksgiving off (except for Thanksgiving Day) or any part of the week of Christmas (except for Christmas day).

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