Allstate reviews

The company’s compliance with the FLSA overtime rules have been a nightmare for new hires and employees with only a few years of tenure. Essentially, Allstate recently classified employees below a certain salary band as non-exempt. This means that they’re restricted to a 40-hour workweek. The problem is that the company never revised the production or quality goals for non-exempt employees. We’re still expected to do the exact same work, in the exact same amount, and at the exact same quality levels, as exempt employees who are free to work overtime to complete their assigned tasks. Realistically, very few claims employees are able to complete their assigned work in 40-hour week. Good luck reaching the production and quality goals the company sets forth if you’re non-exempt. Raises, promotions, and, in some cases, job security, are directly tied to the amount, the quality of work, and (historically) tenure with the company. This makes non-exempt, relatively new employees significantly less competitive than exempt employees, even though they're doing the exact same job in many cases. If you’re new, expect small raises to uncompetitive pay rates, limited chances of advancement. This is all because the company doesn't allow you the resources necessary to complete your goals. In addition, non-exempt employees recently lost the ability to telecommute. As of 2017, the company only offers high-deductible health plans. Don’t break your leg unless you’re joining with a fully funded HSA or are independently wealthy. Vacation scheduling is based on seniority. In subrogation, only 20% of employees can take PTO on any given day, including Thanksgiving and Christmas/Hanukkah. Good luck spending any holiday with your family unless you’ve had 20+ years with the company, especially if they live far away.

Leadership opportunities are limited to younger candidates. With the wrong manager it can be nearly impossible to develop or get a fair rating. Evaluations are pre-determined before meeting with manager. Raise from evaluations are set before evaluation meeting.... Scope of responsibility is sometimes limited, for example a DBA at another company would do all the work as a DBA, but at Allstate one sets up databases and maintains them and someone else sets up the instances and configures the environment to optimize performance. Offshoring with captives in India and Ireland has gone way too far at the expense of the onshore economy and commitment to deliver high quality for customer, company and stockholders.