GEICO reviews

The biggest "complaint" at the top of my list is probably congruent with most employers out there today....most weeks there's just too much to do and not enough time to do it (all) in...at least not all with outstanding results. I have no problem pushing employees somewhat harder to do their best, but the goals have to be reasonable and attainable with extra effort...any knucklehead can sit down and come up with goals so unreasonable that nobody could ever attain them. This is not the case most of the time, but it does occur periodically. The other current downside is that to move into ANY supervisory position you now have to have or be pursuing "eight specific core business courses" from college (despite if you already have a degree). Most of the costs are covered by tuition reimbursement, but, first, it's a life/work balance issue (especially for folks with a house, spouse/mate, kids, etc) and second, I just don't believe that all supervisors/managers need to have courses in accounting, statistics, etc. For example, if you're an Auto Damage Adjuster that might have a BS degree in Physics, you would have to already have or be pursuing those "8 core courses" to ever be a supervisor...and the extremely vast majority of your day as an Auto Damage Supv has to do with managing your field crew, inspecting cars, relationships with body shops and customers, etc.

Overworked and underpaid... Not enough vacation time. Not enough flexibility. Five years is what it takes to get 3 weeks of vacation and then when you do take a vacation it takes you twice as long to recover from the vacation. A huge reward of working at GEICO is profit sharing but on the downside of that, they are not adjusting it to the industry even though we are profitable as a company, if the system isn't fixed, we may not see the cash reward which is the only part that makes our salary bearable. No vision plan.