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Auto-Owners Insurance

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3.1

48% would recommend to a friend

(1,076 total reviews)
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Jamie P. Whisnant

52% approve of CEO

52% positive business outlook

Auto-Owners Insurance has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 1,076 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Auto-Owners Insurance 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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2.0
Jul 25, 2024

WFH

Recommend
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Business Outlook

Pros

Coworkers are great to work with

Cons

Removing 95% WFH program after 4 years

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Auto-Owners Insurance Response
1y
Thank you for your feedback. Please email us at conversation@aoins.com if you'd like to share any additional insight on your experience.
3.0
May 4, 2024

A Career Starter, Not a Career Maker

Recommend
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Pros

An A plus training program for underwriting. A great place to start your career, get your two years underwriting under your belt, maybe get a designation (they do pay for it) and then start looking for a company that will pay you enough to actually afford your bills and food. Also, lower management is often kind and considerate. They often have to be the bearers of the bad news, or try and spin upper managements words into something okay for an employee to be told, but in my career they did try and be supportive. My teammates were great, as were my other peers. Hybrid. I liked the hybrid schedule and being in the office two days a week. It was nice to connect to people on those days, but certainly less work was done on those days with all the distractions and noises.

Cons

Low pay. Gaslighting tendencies to make it seem like 'your fault' your pay is too low. Not rewarding tenure. You do not feel valued the longer you are there. They invest when you first begin, but just expect numbers by the time you leave. They override decisions all the time, and don't back up a choice on bad policies. Bad management choices all around. Health insurance was middling. More like a discount program at times.

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Auto-Owners Insurance Response
2y
Thank you for sharing your thoughts. We are sorry to hear about your concerns and we would like to know more. Please email us at conversation@aoins.com so we can learn more about your experience.
2.0
Oct 15, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Never laid anyone off in over 100 years in business. Promote from within. Very stable - seemingly no danger of being bought out. Christmas bonus pretty much guaranteed (has to be approved but they always say yes). Profit sharing if we have a good year and beat the industry numbers.

Cons

Never laid anyone off, but this means they are extremely reluctant to open new positions and raise salaries, leading to burnout and high turnover. Claim reps are typically juggling more at any one time than at other companies in the industry. This leads to customers unintentionally being forgotten and coming at you understandably angry, only increasing stress. Salaried position but you feel obligated to work evenings and weekends due to work load so work/ life balance suffers. People don’t care about the possibility of being laid off in the future when they can’t afford to live so they end up leaving for other insurance companies that pay more. They promote from within, but this sometimes means people who don’t deserve promotions getting them due to seniority. This is especially a problem with management when people who have no business managing other people get put in positions of power. Once you reach a manager level, they won’t fire you and will only demote you but have to let you keep your pay so they’re extremely reluctant to do it and let people stay in management positions way too long while branches or even entire regions fall apart. They brag about the huge amount sitting in surplus , which is comforting on one level knowing your job is secure, but frustrating on another level knowing they could be offering higher pay or better health insurance. The health insurance is awful. Get ready to spend a chunk of your lower than average pay on healthcare if you need it. You can only go so far in this company unless you’re willing to uproot your entire life and move. Upper management forces structural changes through that nobody wants or that may not be right for a region. If you’re in a different time zone than Michigan and something breaks, you’re dead in the water until the next business day. Upper management tends to be slow to change so the company lags behind on social and technological advances.

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Auto-Owners Insurance Response
3y
Thank you for sharing your feedback with us. We are sorry to hear about your concerns, and we would like to learn more about your experience. Please email us at conversation@aoins.com so that we can look into this.
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