Progressive Insurance Sales Associate reviews

3.7

72% would recommend to a friend

(83 total reviews)
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Tricia Griffith

71% approve of CEO

69% positive business outlook

Sales Associate employees have rated Progressive Insurance with 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 83 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Sales Associate professionals have a good working experience there. Progressive Insurance is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Sales Associate professionals compared to other employers within the Insurance industry (3.7 stars).

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83 reviews
2.0
Jun 2, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

The mission statement and core values of the company are impressive and convey a high standard of integrity. Also, the attendance flexibility is very accommodating for working parents. They even allow you to have a side gig, as long as it does not conflict with your position.

Cons

I was very excited when I was accepted into the Sales Consultant training program at Progressive. I thought that they had been in business long enough to have a highly effective and polished training program. However, I have been extremely disappointed in the chaotic instruction and poor management that I have encountered over the course of training. Too often, I have been reprimanded for procedures and policies that I was never trained on -- even to the extent of formal written warnings. Also, on countless occasions, I have asked for instruction and received three different answers from three diffierent coaches/ supervisors. And to top it all off, they issue reprimands and warnings for obeying one trainer's instructionl instead of the other. Not only is there no consistency in training, but there is favortism that clouds management. Several times I have seen the top selling consultants break rules to make their numbers and management simply looks the other way. Unless you are willing to brown nose management or bully callers into buying coverage that they don't understand and is overpriced beyond budget, you will not succeed at Progressive. They pretend that you have the opportunity to own your call, but they prevent consultants from transferring callers to the agent that they request. This is not a company that provides job security. In fact, at one point, almost half of the new hires walked away frustrated, or were pushed out of the door with mounting reprimands for lack of training.

1.0
May 3, 2017

Personal Lines Producer

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

great health care, nice corporate campus with decent gym and cafeteria, easy to transition to work from home-softeware crashes a lot in the office and then a ton for work from home folks-management seems to think that sales people lie about their terrible software. If you can be a robot you will do well here, if you are human leave!

Cons

There is an attitude among most supervisors..the Riverview campus seem to think you are guilty until proven innocent...they are suspicious of salespeople and there is a very apparent we are management and you are not attitude-do not ever get sick without planning it first-most ridiculous attendance policy I have ever heard of-worse than bootcamp! Management at upper levels seem great but lower levels are a whole different story. ATTITUDE!

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