GEICO reviews

2.7

25% would recommend to a friend

(12,713 total reviews)
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Nancy L. Pierce

50% approve of CEO

24% positive business outlook

GEICO has an employee rating of 2.7 out of 5 stars, based on 12,713 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The GEICO employee rating is 25% below average for employers within the Insurance industry (3.6 stars).

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13K reviews
2.0
Jan 20, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Pay is above average for the position and the free car and gasoline is a real perk! Flexibility is good for doing field work in between life appointments (which is essential since frankly your work NEVER ends at this job)

Cons

too much work! too much territory! The lack of experience in the management greatly burdens the people doing the day to day job. Having 10 - 15 assignments/claims a day with supplements and files of concern (fraud, liability pictures, old files, total losses) is just too much unless your working in a couple of cities that are adjacent - not a footprint of 75 miles across four bridges in Northern California (yes, this is a true story of two years long). That said, it's sad because you want to succeed, for yourself and the organization (claims adjusting isn't something you do to stay employed - you have to love people, insurance, the auto industry - something - fo rme it is all of the above, been doing git forever). Lots of favoritism, too little professionalism, and senior management is sadly just a bunch of uneducated climbers.....could be a great company if they just stood back, put the numbers away and started doing real ride alongs (not just pretend ones like the sheets say the front line management is doing). I believe it will turn around but I am already gone.....best year and a half of my life has been since I left (never thought I would say that).

1.0
Aug 14, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

GEICO, or more appropriately called by those of us who work here, "SLAVECo" has to be the worst employer and job that I have ever dealt with in my life. SLAVECo will interview you and smile, pat you on the back, shake your hand and love you all the way to training. Once training begins, it's like they've pushed you down a very high slide. You enjoy the ride until you hit bottom, face first into the dirt ... the actual job itself. Once you're on the floor you are expected to be an autonomous robot claims drone - read everything you say from a script that changes weekly, be careful how you conjugate your verbs! And dread the feared "A Call" when you get scored down for the pick of the week in mark downs. Wait until your Manager talks to you about why you arent meeting your goals - and you tell her that its because you dont know exactly what your goals are because they change every week. She'll look at you with her eyes bulged out of her head and tell you you should have got in in your email. Along with the 400 other pieces of garbage that pop up every day telling about free this or come and get something but that's only for the people who arent tied down to a phone and aren't even allowed a potty break without it counting against theire rating. SLAVECo is a horrible company. They treat their employees worse that dirt. Of course that is my opinion and my experience. RUN , do not walk away from applying for a job here!

Cons

Management ... Zero Respect for employees Management ... Unrealistic goals and expectations

1.0
Aug 8, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

They will pay for you to get your license. Once you get it, run like hell to another insurance company. The only legal sweatshop in America.

Cons

New employees no longer get a pension because the company is so cheap and greedy. The average raise is 75 cents per hour each year, provided you are not on a warning. It is an "at will" employment with GEICO, which means you can be fired for any reason at any time. They like to instill fear and intimidation with employees. Turnover is really high due to how they treat their employees. The goals they set are difficult to achieve so they don't have to pay you a raise. They like to hire new employees who make less to replace employees who have been there a while who make more money.

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