Nationwide reviews

3.8

71% would recommend to a friend

(5,423 total reviews)

Kirt Walker

77% approve of CEO

64% positive business outlook

Nationwide has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 5,423 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Nationwide employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Insurance industry (3.6 stars).

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5K reviews
2.0
Jun 2, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

There are a number of great applications to learn and grow from as well as the people who developed them. Work/life balance is good depending upon the team. If all big organizations are as bureaucratic then this is a good place too.

Cons

Innovation has stopped. It seems there are more people monitoring development than actual developers. Roles have been defined so narrowly that there is no accountability for quality. Applications and processes are produced in isolation, that is, it appears the end users are never involved in development of a solution but are required to use it. Blame is more important than solutions to an issue. At least three reviews have to be made to different groups before a fix to an implementation error can be made. And pray to God a release did not cause an outage of any kind... Processes are more important that fixes, or so it seems. The word "defect", once reserved for manufacturing processes, is used here for "human error". You need thick skin to work here as a developer. It could be true at other places as well, but this is the first place I've worked in which it is used.

2.0
May 28, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

In some places, if you lie low enough and don't create too many defects or mistakes, you can actually keep a ghost of a career going.

Cons

Constant corporate and division changes...following the lead of other insurance companies in the industry instead of being the leaders ourselves...directorial musical chairs...

3.0
May 25, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Nationwide cares about it's customers, cares about it's employees, may still care about the community. Nationwide is trying to make positive hanges.

Cons

The pros I listed above I beleive to be true. Unfortunatly, they can't execute because the too nice culture and lack of management accountability is holding them back. Oh, and the max out of pocket for the health high-deductable health plan went up over 80% for 2010 over 2009 with no explanation.

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