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Auto-Owners Insurance

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Auto-Owners Insurance reviews

3.1

47% would recommend to a friend

(1,077 total reviews)
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Jamie P. Whisnant

52% approve of CEO

53% positive business outlook

Auto-Owners Insurance has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 1,077 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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1K reviews
3.0
Jun 4, 2023

Not worth it

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Stable company with lots of good people

Cons

Literally the worst compensation in the industry, would be higher at any other company. Field marketing reps work 20+ hours more a week than your average associate, but treated like Joe Schmoe employee and receive little support. No budget, so using that industry worst wage to personally purchase company swag to give to assigned agencies.

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Auto-Owners Insurance Response
3y
Thank you for sharing your feedback. We would like to know more about your experience. Please email us at conversation@aoins.com so that we can learn more about this.
4.0
Nov 18, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great culture and training. You’ll be made to feel like you’re valued and given opportunities to explore different departments if you wish. Pension is a nice perk if you plan to stay long term. There’s a concerted effort at making the company more diverse. Great place to start your career, or end it (pension), but if you stay too long you’ll become very stagnant career-wise.

Cons

Pay lags behind the industry, especially for software development. After 5 years I was making about $70k and left for more than twice that amount. Also the tech you work with is not industry standard and doesn’t transfer well. Wfh program was being cut back post covid which was sad to see as it worked so well at the time. It felt like they were trying to justify their new building that they broke ground on a month before the pandemic began. There’s also this weird groupthink that is pervasive that working anywhere else for more money will come with way worse hours and you’ll be miserable. This is quite the opposite of my admittedly anecdotal experience after leaving. The grass was truly greener.

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Auto-Owners Insurance Response
3y
Thank you for providing your feedback. If you have anything additional you would like to share, please email us at conversation@aoins.com.
4.0
Sep 20, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Culture. People genuinely are warm, helpful and try to do the right thing. Management in areas I experienced were not micro-managers. Has superb reputation within IA industry amongst agents which helps in a lot of situations. Xmas bonus is basically 100% guaranteed, and profit sharing each year based on company performance. Defined-benefit pension after 5 years. Small company feel despite thousands of employees. Has never laid off a single employee in over 100 years - stability is basically unmatched. Unique benefit dollars approach to health care - you get $$ allocated each year towards benefit purchases; most times this will completely cover all health care, disability, and life insurance costs for a single person or significantly dent out-of-pocket for families.

Cons

Has not kept pace at all with market rate salaries and is bleeding talent as a result. Your "total compensation" - even including a max 15% profit share which is obviously not guaranteed - still falls short a lot of times to other carrier base salaries. No 100% WFH options at the time of this review. Post-COVID is transitioning to hybrid WFH model only, which is a major step forward but still does not match other competitors. A lot of manual processes and some older technology/systems in some areas. Is improving, and in the updated areas performs quite well overall at least but still has more work to complete.

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Auto-Owners Insurance Response
4y
Thank you for taking the time to share your review! We are proud of our company culture and the ways we are there for our policyholders, agents and associates.
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