GEICO reviews

2.6

24% would recommend to a friend

(12,695 total reviews)
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Nancy L. Pierce

50% approve of CEO

24% positive business outlook

GEICO has an employee rating of 2.6 out of 5 stars, based on 12,695 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The GEICO employee rating is 28% below average for employers within the Insurance industry (3.6 stars).

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1.0
Jan 30, 2019

Call Center Approach to IT

Recommend
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Pros

Stable work, relaxed pace, good benefits, discount on car insurance. You will meet and work with great people until they leave to go to a real company where they pay fair and get better perks.

Cons

Pretty much everything else. Executive leadership is all homegrown, and lacks the guts and the knowledge to do things like a large IT company should. Salaries are weak, training is non-existent (only younger associates get selected for conferences). Want the industry standard software you need? Have fun being told "we don't have enough licenses". Want to visit industry websites to learn and research? BLOCKED by a web content filter. Want to use Google Chrome to save your logins to sites you use daily? BLOCKED by some absurd security policy. I could go on an on, but this is a VERY CHEAP company. They like to present this image that they are modernizing insurance, but it is all lies. Profit sharing? Why not just pay me a competitive salary instead of making me wait to get my money? CHEAP. You don't get vacation until SIX MONTHS after you start, which is ABSURD!!! Every policy you see about fairness is a CYA from HR, not for the benefit of employees. If you ask questions about ways to improve you will quickly become an outsider, as management loves to ask "why you want to know" something (Um, because i'm trying to improve). Management wants to use a call center approach, where they continually hire college graduates and churn through extremely high turnover as people become experienced and then cherry picked by other large companies in the DC area. The Plaza office building is a slum. Poorly lit, ventilated, and full of mice. For whatever reason, they are too scared to take on the neighborhood that bullies them into not building a new office space. Due to car insurance being mandatory, there is no shortage of business, but there is definitely a shortage of thinking from management.

2.0
Dec 7, 2016

Eww

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Pros

Geico moves fast. Interviews fast. Hires fast. Trains fast. After being employed by GEICO you will begin to understand why everything is so fast...high employee turnover. Poor Geico, 12 weeks of training and your employees leave you before a year is up.

Cons

Revolving door job. High demands, but low pay. Expect to be embarrassed on a regular basis in front of your peers. You will be constantly "coached," but never good enough. How is it possible that Geico hires competent employees but it is impossible to be rated a 5...and nearly impossible to be a 3? This is one of the only (if not the only) insurance companies that expect the auto damage adjuster to do 3 jobs. In auto damage you will appraise damage, settle your own total losses, issue payment, deal with companies that owe the IRS, and a bunch of other admin work that's impossible to keep up with. When they tell you that you only need 4/5 claims a day...try again. I was told that I need 7/8 (because they are short on staff and overbooked on claims). Expect them to work you into the ground. Geico is responsible for creating alcoholics, and have seemed to successfully changed nice happy people to mean and unhappy. Overall morale is low. Bravo Geico! That has to be some sort of record. Stay away unless you are starving or behind on rent, because this will be the hardest you've ever worked for 50k. When you quit body shops and other insurance companies will recruit you offering much higher pay ($65k-$115k) consider their offer, it can't be worse then the job you already have. The best 2weeks of my life were when I gave my notice to Geico. Good riddance!

1.0
Sep 10, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

I get to work remote for now

Cons

Super old, broken, undocumented approach to tech. CTO is extremely full of himself and they can't even figure out Cloud so they are migrating to on-prem, but the process is so broken and the knowledge is so sparse that of course its delayed 18+ months and again broken. Company is borderline racist as well, and I say that as a white person. They only hire people from India, actively filtering out others since they want H1-B to underpay and treat them badly, I feel bad for them. They get to overwork, underpay, and get an employee who has no option but to stay and take the abuse. Also teams are given old projects, then fired after a while and some teams are given advantages or don't have to follow a process your team does, so that manager teams looks good at your expense, since you have 1000 more broken controls and ecosystems to fight through. Bad mistake on my part coming here. Also pay is very bad, again since they prefer to exploit immigrants than actually pay market rate.

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