GEICO reviews

2.7

25% would recommend to a friend

(12,749 total reviews)
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Nancy L. Pierce

50% approve of CEO

25% positive business outlook

GEICO has an employee rating of 2.7 out of 5 stars, based on 12,749 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
1.0
Aug 28, 2012

Sweatshop.

Recommend
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Pros

There is decent pay, and excellent benefits. Fairly thorough training and lots of feedback, you don't have to pay your own licensing fees.

Cons

First, the pay is decent for the area, but not worth the volume of work you're given or the draconian standards you're held to. Every other insurance company offers less stressful and higher paying work in the same industry. The performance goals start reasonably enough, but every time you exceed those goal, that is then made the standard. If you continue to do well, the standard continues to increase until the best you can do is average or slightly under, which they then use to justify giving you the bare minimum raise, or worse---no raise at all. Their idea of promoting within is to give someone a lateral "promotion" wherein they are doing the jobs of their supervisors for the same pay they were getting before, then they "rotate" you back into your original position occassionally, essentially to show you that the job you were doing was a privilege to be granted and removed by the company. After years of doing this, if you're lucky, you get granted a promotion, and in most cases get a marginal pay increase for your troubles. The sole goal of this company is growth, not the care of their policyholders or their employees. In order to advance in any meaningful way you have to take classes like "Getting Results Through People" where they specifically train you on how to manipulate your underlings into not feeling too good about their performance so you can justify holding off raises. There's also a class called "Winning Attitudes" for the underlings to essentially tell them all "keep your mouth shut and your head down, and if you have a problem with that we offer four free telephone emotional counseling sessions to help you with that". This place is a death trap. I got out, and unfortunately my fiancee is still there---it's making us both miserable.

2.0
Nov 4, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

GEICO's profit sharing is great. In addition, most of the people who work there are great, conscientious workers who truly care about their jobs and each other. They are what makes the job tolerable and keeps me sane.

Cons

The managers and are very fearful of losing their jobs and will go extreme lengths to protect themselves. The atmosphere that has been created under the new team has got everyone fearful for their jobs. They openly display anger and yell like children. I would not recommend coming here unless you are prepared to swallow your pride and smile at people you may not care for or respect. It you are willing to feed their egos, you will do well and get promotions. if not, you will be strongly encouraged to take a "voluntary" demotion.

2.0
Jul 14, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good advancement opportunities in claims if you are in the "in" with management

Cons

Management treats people like you you are expendable. HR Benefits makes fun of your FML leave and one of them in particular will try and friend you on facebook to see if you are really sick. No work life balance, be prepared to explain why you had to go to the bathroom for 5 minutes instead of 4, even in "salaried" positions.

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