CNA reviews

3.9

69% would recommend to a friend

(1,297 total reviews)
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Douglas M. Worman

73% approve of CEO

65% positive business outlook

CNA has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 1,297 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The CNA 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
Aug 15, 2016

Striving and struggling for excellence

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Lots of very smart people. Great programs and support for people who work hard and achieve. Solid benefits. Very relationship oriented: who you know is very important.

Cons

CNA doesn't really have much of a mission or purpose. No visible strategy. Each part of the business operates like its own company. Lots of bureaucracy - checkers checking checkers. Limited flexibility to work from home. Very much an "old school" company. Very little diversity - it's definitely a good old boys network at the top.

2.0
Aug 10, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Pay is great, work is ridiculously slow and many of us are waiting for the next big cut.

Cons

Word on the street is out and if you are not a former Chubb employee, advancement is out; Emphasis right now is Expense control despite profitability

1.0
Jul 22, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

-Financially strong w/ A, XV AM Best rating -Solid legacy Specialty organization -Competitive compensation -Very favorable company contributions to 401k plan

Cons

This company is constantly changing. Which is no accident, since "Innovative" is one of its core values (aka Winning Behaviors). While progressive change is essential to companies, ineffective or improper execution can spell disaster. This may be why most ‘great’ companies don't execute change on every single whim. As a result, employees become victims of change fatigue. The employee turnover rate evidence of this. I challenge you to find a filed underwriter that has been with CNA for more than 3 years. No surprise that CNA has 2x the turnover rate vs industry average, and 3x best in class (all public information). One employee of 7 years had 8 different managers that he reported to. Sadly, anyone assigned by the “Human Capital Committee: to respond to reviews like this likely does not have 3 years with the company themselves. In the past, the Specialty organization was insulated from much of this. However, in the past few years the dysfunction of the Commercial Segment now plagues the Specialty Segment. Again, this is evidenced in the turnover rate. The huge spike in Specialty turnover came immediately following the first “changes” made to align with the Commercial Segment.

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