It is a good place to build a career - IT Applications Programmer Senior Progressive Insurance Employee Review

4.0
Feb 13, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

The best thing about Working at Progressive is definitely the relaxed culture. Work life balance is great. Flexible working arrangements, and managers who really know how to make the employees feel appreciated. Appreciation is something a lot of companies take for granted. I think it is very easy to shine if you are in a project that lets you have the opportunity to. There is a very high retention rate as a lot of people celebrating over 10 yrs working for the company. Benefits package is very good if you are single. Been told around town that I have the best insurance in town when I use it at any networked facility. Great classroom learning as well as access to online classes to learn new skills.

Cons

Onboarding process needs a lot of work. There is a lot of down time while waiting for project assignment. Very large projects also mean movement is very slow. Definitely will kill any motivation if start falling in step with the crowd. The long timers also have a sense that they are just doing this until they retire. But if you don't want to fall into the crowd and bad habits you will need to learn new skills on your own. But you many never get to use those skills as most of the fun projects are fully staffed. The bad thing is getting stuck in the tail end of a project where you have to follow blindly what to do. PROCESS and procedure is almost insane. They don't let people who are clearly not performing go.

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5.0
Jun 30, 2026
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Pros

Strong Leadership Consistent Strategy People Oriented Culture

Cons

Larger more mature company - less agile and harder to drive change - still happens but takes longer and a lot more coordination

2.0
Jul 4, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Work from home, Ok opportunities to learn more but opportunities are becoming slim.

Cons

Between Micromanagement, work overload and with the use of vendors and AI employees are at risk. Corporate seems to not care that were all tired of the customers that are being abusive when corporates made bad decisions and these poor people have thousands withdrawn from an AI error. Pay for this level of company and the increasing headaches is not good, no monthly bonus, no commissions. No pension. Health benefits are available but not affordable. And the undo stress is causing my peers to consider quiting even ones that been here over 10yrs

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