Allstate reviews

3.5

55% would recommend to a friend

(11,237 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 11,237 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
3.0
Aug 8, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Some of the front line managers are great people and really try to help you with day to day problems. Your co-workers for the most part will be agreeable people. The company seems to value diversity at my level and a lot of front line and middle mgmt are female and/or minorities. However, upper level still seems like a white male country club. The company has both a 401k to which they contribute and a pension system, which is rare in today's business environment. Health, dental and vision ins are available.

Cons

Upper management seems to have no idea what the claims office does or the resources they need to do it. Senior employees have been replaced by just out of college sparsely-trained adjusters. The State of FL has all types of bad faith/litigation issues that take some time to understand. The supervisors are stretched too thin to supervise them all the time, so mistakes will and have been made. IMO, any money saved by replacing the experienced adjusters will be more then lost by the judgements paid. Our next gen claims system is onerous and full of error messages. It is not as efficient as what it replaced and less claims work can be done. Mgmt keeps coming up with new compliance issues, spreadsheets that have to be completed and hoops to jump through and this takes time away from the work goals we need to reach.

2.0
Feb 7, 2010

Field Sales Leader

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Telecommuting and the benefits are attractive.

Cons

Lack of direction as a company. Constant change in direction and lack of respect for field personnel and agents. This creates untold stress and pressure

2.0
Dec 11, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Focus on family, work / life balance and diversity. Fairly good benefits (at least until recently) with company 401K matching.

Cons

Bureaucracy and highly charged political environment. Despite 360 surveys and other initiatives, almost no communication gets propagated upstream, communication downstream is often misleading. Management is a mixed bag of goods, with some smart and driven individuals rising through the ranks and predictably leaving the company. Favoritism aplenty. Free interpretation of diversity with many teams having at least one "challenged" individual with the rest of the team having to shoulder his or her part of workload as well. Opportunities for growth or for moving within the company are nothing but a joke in 95% of the cases. No strategic direction when it gets to the middle management level.

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