Pros
Meet fantastic people and work with successful business owners everyday. Phenomenal training and education. Perhaps the best in the entire insurance industry. This is one the best entry jobs into high level sales you can find. Long term career as a marketing rep is left solely for masochists.
Cons
Federated cares little for its employees or its clients. This is proven by the constant do more with less attitude and never ending renewal increases on all accounts even those without losses. If you aren't working 80+ hrs a week as a marketing rep you're wrong. On top of the grueling hours and lack of support they do everything they can to derail successful people from being even more successful by awful inside practices. MR's literally cannot trust their inside partners to get the job done right. Reps have to micromanage every little detail of your position which takes them away from what they do best, selling. Federated does a good job of brain washing their sales force into believing that Federated is the best company out there and all other insurance agents/carriers are inferior. My first year out of Federated and I've made more money than my best year at Federated working with just as good if not better carriers than Federated. Every successful person at Federated who has left talks about how happy they now are and how much better off they are as a person. Federated's motto is Faith, Family, Federated but if any manager ever followed this motto I'd be surprised. You support your family by working day and night with zero time for husband/wife/kids/family/friends. My best friend lives 35 mins from me and I saw him only 5 times in over 7 years. Use this company as a starting point for a high end sales job and you'll find yourself shooting up the charts! Stay here and you'll likely become bitter and angry from the huge loads of stress and lack of work/life balance.